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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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Job 38:8
Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb?
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Job 38:8 · retained source text

Or who shut vp the sea with doores, when it brake foorth as if it had issued out of the wombe?

1611 marginal notePsal. 104.9.

Job 41:15
His scales are his pride, shut up together as with a close seal.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Job 41:15 · retained source text

His scales are his pride, shut vp together as with a close seale.

1611 marginal noteHeb. strong pieces of shields.

Psalms 31:8
And hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: thou hast set my feet in a large room.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Psalms 31:8 · retained source text

And hast not shut me vp into the hand of the enemie: thou hast set my feete in a large roome.

Psalms 77:9
Hath God forgotten to be gracious? hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies? Selah.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Psalms 77:9 · retained source text

Hath God forgotten to be gracious? hath he in anger shut vp his tender mercies? Selah.

Psalms 88:8
Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me; thou hast made me an abomination unto them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Psalms 88:8 · retained source text

Thou hast put away mine acquaintance farre from mee: thou hast made me an abomination vnto them: I am shut vp, and I cannot come forth.

Ecclesiastes 12:4
And the doors shall be shut in the streets, when the sound of the grinding is low, and he shall rise up at the voice of the bird, and all the daughters of musick shall be brought low;
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Ecclesiastes 12:4 · retained source text

And the doores shal be shut in the streets, when the sound of the grinding is low, and he shall rise vp at the voice of the bird, and all the daughters of musicke shall be brought low.

Song of Solomon 4:12
A garden inclosed is my sister, my spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Song of Solomon 4:12 · retained source text

A garden inclosed is my sister, my spouse: a spring shut vp, a fountaine sealed.

1611 marginal noteHebr. barred.

Isaiah 6:10
Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Isaiah 6:10 · retained source text

Make the heart of this people fat, and make their eares heauy, and shut their eyes: lest they see with their eyes, and heare with their eares, and vnderstand with their heart, and conuert and be healed.

Isaiah 22:22
And the key of the house of David will I lay upon his shoulder; so he shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open.
2 word occurrences in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Isaiah 22:22 · retained source text

And the key of the house of Dauid will I lay vpon his shoulder: so he shall open and none shall shut, and he shall shut and none shall open.

1611 marginal noteIob 12.14 reue.3.7.

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