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# סָכַר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5534

**shut up** — used 2 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

shut up [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5534/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

סָכַר: vb. shut up, stop up [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5534/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. shut up, stop up (Aramaic סְכַר, ܣܟܰܪ shut up, stop up, dam up; Arabic سَكَرَ fill, stop up, dam (river), etc., also close, stop up door, Lane1390; Assyrian sikệru, dam up, ii. 2. stop ears; cf. sikkuru, bolt DlHWB 499; appar. kindr. with סגר;—hence Egyptian t’akar, barrier, Bondi88);— Impf. 3 ms. יִסָּכֵר פִּי וגו׳ ψ 63:12 the mouth of liars shall be stopped; 3 mpl. וַיִּסָּֽכְרוּ Gn 8:2 (P) and the springs of the deep etc., were shut up. Pf. וְסִכַּרְתִּ֫י אֶת־מִצְרַיִם בְּיַד Is 19:4 and I will shut up (deliver) Egypt into the hand of, etc. (cf. סגר, מגן).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: it will be shut up (1); they were shut up (1).

## In the verses

[Genesis 8:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.8.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.8.2/#tree)

וַיִּסָּֽכְרוּ֙ מַעְיְנֹ֣ת תְּה֔וֹם וַֽאֲרֻבֹּ֖ת הַשָּׁמָ֑יִם וַיִּכָּלֵ֥א הַגֶּ֖שֶׁם מִן־הַשָּׁמָֽיִם׃

*Word for word:* and they.were.shut.up the.springs of.the.deep and the.windows of the.heavens and it.was.restrained the rain from the heavens

*JPS 1917:* the fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained.

[Psalms 63:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.63.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.63.12/#tree)

וְהַמֶּלֶךְ֮ יִשְׂמַ֪ח בֵּאלֹ֫הִ֥ים יִ֭תְהַלֵּל כָּל־הַנִּשְׁבָּ֣ע בּ֑וֹ כִּ֥י יִ֝סָּכֵ֗ר פִּ֣י דֽוֹבְרֵי־שָֽׁקֶר׃

*Word for word:* and the king he.will.rejoice in God he.will.boast every (the).\[one who\].swears.an.oath by him (dm) it.will.be.shut.up \[the\].mouth of.\[those.who\].speak (of).falsehood

*JPS 1917:* But the king shall rejoice in God; every one that sweareth by Him shall glory; for the mouth of them that speak lies shall be stopped.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5534.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5534/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).