The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;
The 1611 reading
The fountaines also of the deepe, and the windowes of heauen were stopped, and the raine from heauen was restrained.
KJV dictionary & concordance
Closed, blocked, obstructed, restrained, intercepted, or silenced so that flow, passage, action, or reply could not continue.
Definition sources
First occurrence: Genesis 8:2
Complete exact-word concordance
The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;
The fountaines also of the deepe, and the windowes of heauen were stopped, and the raine from heauen was restrained.
For all the wells which his father’s servants had digged in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped them, and filled them with earth.
For all the wels which his fathers seruants had digged in the dayes of Abraham his father, the Philistims had stopped them, & filled them with earth.
And Isaac digged again the wells of water, which they had digged in the days of Abraham his father; for the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham: and he called their names after the names by which his father had called them.
And Isaac digged againe the wels of water, which they had digged in the dayes of Abraham his father: for the Philistims had stopped them after the death of Abraham, and he called their names after the names by which his father had called them.
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Historical English dictionary sources
Closed; obstructed; hindered from proceeding; impeded; intercepted.