- Original: אטם
- Transliteration: 'atam
- Phonetic: aw-tam'
- Definition:
1. to shut, shut up, close
a. (Qal) to shut, stop (of lips)
b. (Hiphil) of the wicked stopping their ears (fig.)
- Origin: a primitive root
- TWOT entry: 73
- Part(s) of speech: Verb
- Strong's: A primitive root; to close (the lips or ears); by analogy to contract (a window by bevelled jambs): - narrow shut stop.
Total KJV Occurrences: 8
• narrow, 4
1 Kings 6:4;
Ezekiel 40:16;
Ezekiel 41:16;
Ezekiel 41:26
• shutteth, 1
Proverbs 17:28
• stoppeth, 3
Psalm 58:4;
Proverbs 21:13;
Isaiah 33:15