Biblical Hebrew

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hebrew #331 - אָטַם atam (to shut)


Original Word:אָטַם
Transliteration: atam
Definition:to shut, shut up
Part of Speech:Verb
Phonetic Spelling:(aw-tam')
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

narrow, shut, stop

A primitive root; to close (the lips or ears); by analology to contract (a window by bevelled jambs) -- narrow, shut, stop.


Englishman's Concordance

1) to shut, shut up, close
1a) (Qal) to shut, stop (of lips)
1b) (Hiphil) of the wicked stopping their ears (figuratively)
Part of Speech: verb
A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: a primitive root
Same Word by TWOT Number: 73

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[אטם] verbshut, shut up (Mishna אטם, compare אוֺטֶםstoppage, Aramaic אֲטַם; Arabic contract, stop, fortress; Assyrian a‰amu, in list of headgear, etc.=turban? DlW, No. 155) —

QalParticiple activeאֹטֵםProverbs 17:28 2t.; passiveאֲטֻמִים1 Kings 6:4; אֲטֻמוֺתEzekiel 40:16 2t.; — shut, stop, object lips Proverbs 17:28; ears Proverbs 21:13; Isaiah 33:15; passive=closed (i.e. narrowed, narrowing, compare ᵑ6 in Co) ׳חַלּוֺנוֺת אEzekiel 40:16; Ezekiel 41:16,26; compare חַלּוֺנֵי שְׁקֻפִים אֲטֻמִים1 Kings 6:4.

Hiph`ilImperfectid quod Qal יַאְטֵםPsalm 58:5 (jussive with sense of indicative, compare Dr§ 173 obs.) of adder, stopping ears, simile of wicked.


Englishman's Concordance (References)

Strong's Hebrew: 331. אָטַם (atam) — 8 Occurrences

1 Kings 6:4
HEB:חַלּוֹנֵ֖י שְׁקֻפִ֥ים אֲטֻמִֽים׃
KJV: he made windows of narrow lights.
INT: windows with frames of narrow

Psalm 58:4
HEB:פֶ֥תֶן חֵ֝רֵ֗שׁ יַאְטֵ֥ם אָזְנֽוֹ׃
NAS: a deaf cobra that stops up its ear,
KJV: adder [that] stoppeth her ear;
INT: cobra A deaf stops ear

Proverbs 17:28
HEB:חָכָ֣ם יֵחָשֵׁ֑ב אֹטֵ֖ם שְׂפָתָ֣יו נָבֽוֹן׃
NAS: wise; When he closes his lips,
KJV: wise: [and] he that shutteth his lips
INT: wise is considered closes his lips is prudent

Proverbs 21:13
HEB: אֹטֵ֣ם אָ֭זְנוֹ מִזַּעֲקַת־
NAS:He who shuts his ear to the cry
KJV:Whoso stoppeth his ears at the cry
INT:shuts his ear to the cry

Isaiah 33:15
HEB:מִתְּמֹ֣ךְ בַּשֹּׁ֔חַד אֹטֵ֤ם אָזְנוֹ֙ מִשְּׁמֹ֣עַ
NAS: bribe; He who stops his ears
KJV: of bribes, that stoppeth his ears
INT: hold bribe stops his ears hearing

Ezekiel 40:16
HEB: וְחַלֹּנ֣וֹת אֲטֻמ֣וֹת אֶֽל־ הַתָּאִ֡ים
NAS:[There were] shuttered windows
KJV:And [there were] narrow windows
INT: windows shuttered toward the guardrooms

Ezekiel 41:16
HEB:הַסִּפִּ֡ים וְהַחַלּוֹנִ֣ים הָ֠אֲטֻמוֹת וְהָאַתִּיקִ֤ים ׀ סָבִיב֙
NAS: The thresholds, the latticed windows
KJV: The door posts, and the narrow windows,
INT: the thresholds windows the latticed and the galleries round

Ezekiel 41:26
HEB: וְחַלּוֹנִ֨ים אֲטֻמ֤וֹת וְתִֽמֹרִים֙ מִפּ֣וֹ
NAS:[There were] latticed windows
KJV:And [there were] narrow windows
INT: windows latticed and palm side

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