Definition

to shut up; figuratively, to surrender

Etymology

a primitive root;

Where the KJV renders it

• close up
• deliver (up)
• give over (up)
• inclose
• pure
• repair
• shut (in
• self
• out
• up
• up together)
• stop
• straitly

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

A deep-dive treatment of this word is in the works. The featured chapter above carries the long form of what this word meant to its first audience.