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shut

Meaning of “shut”

To close, fasten, block, confine, stop, exclude, or make inaccessible.

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KJV context and cross-referencesWebster 1828
105 occurrences102 verses28 booksKJV PCE

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First occurrence: Genesis 7:16

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2 Samuel 20:3
¶ And David came to his house at Jerusalem; and the king took the ten women his concubines, whom he had left to keep the house, and put them in ward, and fed them, but went not in unto them. So they were shut up unto the day of their death, living in widowhood.
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The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · 2 Samuel 20:3 · retained source text

¶ And Dauid came to his house at Ierusalem, and the king tooke the ten women his concubines, whom he had left to keep the house, and put them in ward, and fed them, but went not in vnto them: so they were shut vp vnto the day of their death, liuing in widowhood.

1611 marginal noteHebr. a house of ward.

1611 marginal noteHebr. bound.

1611 marginal noteHebr. in widowhood of life.

1611 marginal noteChap. 16.22.

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