אָטַר
ʼâṭar · H332 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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to close
To isolate part of the body so that nothing can go in or out
ExamplesPsalm 69:15 May the flood of water not overflow me Nor the deep swallow me up, Nor the pit close its mouth on me.
How it’s used In 4 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Who or what does itSubject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- בְּאֵרwell 1
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- פֶּהmouth 1
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- עַלon, upon, over, against+ נִיme 1
With adverbsAdverbs
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- אַלnot, do not 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 1 word
- סָגַר çâgar · H5462 · to shut, to close
- סָגַר is the most common Hebrew verb for 'shut' or 'close,' used frequently for shutting doors, gates, and enclosures, semantically parallel to the rare אָטַר.
Contrasting words 1 word
- פָּתַח pâthach · H6605 · to open, to open up
- פָּתַח 'open' is the direct lexical opposite of אָטַר 'shut,' representing the antithetical action of opening doors, gates, or access points.
In the other Testament 1 word
- κλείω kleíō · G2808 · to shut, to make shut, to close
- κλείω is the standard Greek verb for 'shut' or 'close' (doors, gates, etc.), directly corresponding to the Hebrew אָטַר in its sense of shutting or closing.
Semantic domains 1 entry
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- אָטַר describes shutting, as the psalmist's plea that his enemies' mouths not be shut against hearing his cry.
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H332. atar [אָטַר] verb shut up, close, bind (Arabic bend, curve, what surrounds,…
[אָטַר] verb shut up, close, bind (Arabic bend, curve, what surrounds, encloses
Qal Imperfect3feminine singular תֶּאְטַר Psa 69:16 (תּ ׳אַל מִּיהָ בְּאֵר עָלַי).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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