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# עָצַם

Biblical Hebrew

**shut the eyes** — 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 the eyes [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/lemma_3a_5e2_5b8_5e6_5b7_5dd/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עָצַם²: vb. shut the eyes [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/lemma_3a_5e2_5b8_5e6_5b7_5dd/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. shut the eyes (NH Hiph.; poss. connex. with Syriac ܥܡܰܨ = id., Arabic غَمَضَ, غَمُضَ, ii, iv (on ض = ܨ v. NöZMG xxxii (1878), 406); NH עִמֵּץ close eyes of dead; cf. BaES 5 f.);— Pt. וְעֹצֵם עֵינָיו מִן Is 33:15 shutteth his eyes from seeing. Impf. 3 ms. וַיְעַצֵּם אֶת־עֵינֵיכֶם Is 29:10 he hath tightly shut your eyes (cf. I. עצה).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (8 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (6 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: \[one who\] shuts (1); he has shut (1).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 29:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.29.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.29.10/#tree)

כִּֽי־נָסַ֨ךְ עֲלֵיכֶ֤ם יְהוָה֙ ר֣וּחַ תַּרְדֵּמָ֔ה וַיְעַצֵּ֖ם אֶת־עֵֽינֵיכֶ֑ם אֶת־הַנְּבִיאִ֛ים וְאֶת־רָאשֵׁיכֶ֥ם הַחֹזִ֖ים כִּסָּֽה׃

*Word for word:* (dm) he.has.poured.out on you Yahweh a.spirit of.deep.sleep and he.has.shut (et) eyes your (et) the prophets and (et) heads your the seers he.has.covered

*JPS 1917:* For the LORD hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and hath closed your eyes; the prophets, and your heads, the seers, hath He covered.

[Isaiah 33:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.33.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.33.15/#tree)

הֹלֵ֣ךְ צְדָק֔וֹת וְדֹבֵ֖ר מֵֽישָׁרִ֑ים מֹאֵ֞ס בְּבֶ֣צַע מַעֲשַׁקּ֗וֹת נֹעֵ֤ר כַּפָּיו֙ מִתְּמֹ֣ךְ בַּשֹּׁ֔חַד אֹטֵ֤ם אָזְנוֹ֙ מִשְּׁמֹ֣עַ דָּמִ֔ים וְעֹצֵ֥ם עֵינָ֖יו מֵרְא֥וֹת בְּרָֽע׃

*Word for word:* \[one.who\].walks righteousness(es) and \[one.who\].speaks uprightness(es) \[one.who\].rejects (in).unjust gain of.extortion(s) \[one.who\].shakes palms his from taking.hold on (the) bribe \[one.who\].shuts ear his from hearing blood(s) and \[one.who\].shuts eyes his from looking on evil

*JPS 1917:* He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from holding of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from looking upon evil;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5e2_5b8_5e6_5b7_5dd.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/lemma_3a_5e2_5b8_5e6_5b7_5dd/): 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).