Difference between revisions of "Shut"

<p> '''(1):''' ''' (''' n.) The line or place where two pieces of metal are united by welding. </p> <p> '''(2):''' ''' (''' v. i.) To close itself; to become closed; as, the door shuts; it shuts hard. </p> <p> '''(3):''' ''' (''' a.) [[Closed]] or fastened; as, a shut door. </p> <p> '''(4):''' ''' (''' n.) A door or cover; a shutter. </p> <p> '''(5):''' ''' (''' v. t.) To forbid entrance into; to prohibit; to bar; as, to shut the ports of a country by a blockade. </p> <p> '''(6):''' ''' (''' imp. & p. p.) of [[Shut]] </p> <p> '''(7):''' ''' (''' v. t.) To preclude; to exclude; to bar out. </p> <p> '''(8):''' ''' (''' v. t.) To close so as to hinder ingress or egress; as, to shut a door or a gate; to shut one's eyes or mouth. </p> <p> '''(9):''' ''' (''' n.) The act or time of shutting; close; as, the shut of a door. </p> <p> '''(10):''' ''' (''' a.) [[Cut]] off sharply and abruptly by a following consonant in the same syllable, as the English short vowels, /, /, /, /, /, always are. </p> <p> '''(11):''' ''' (''' a.) Formed by complete closure of the mouth passage, and with the nose passage remaining closed; stopped, as are the mute consonants, p, t, k, b, d, and hard g. </p> <p> '''(12):''' ''' (''' a.) Rid; clear; free; as, to get shut of a person. </p> <p> '''(13):''' ''' (''' v. t.) To fold together; to close over, as the fingers; to close by bringing the parts together; as, to shut the hand; to shut a book. </p>

<p> <em> Sâgar </em> ( '''סָגַר''' , Strong'S #5462), “to shut, close, shut up or imprison.” Found in ancient Ugaritic, this verb is common also in ancient and modern Hebrew. It is found some 80 times in the text of the [[Hebrew]] Old Testament. <em> Sâgar </em> is used for the first time in the Old [[Testament]] in the story of the creation of the woman from the rib of the man: “And the Lord God … closed up the flesh instead thereof” (Gen. 2:21).The obvious use of this verb is to express the “shutting” of doors and gates, and it is used in this way many times in the text (Gen. 19:10; Josh. 2:7). More specialized uses are: fat closing over the blade of a sword (Judg. 3:22) and closing up a breach in city walls (1 Kings 11:27). </p> <p> Figuratively, men may “close their hearts to pity” (Ps. 17:10, [[Rsv; Kjv]] “They are inclosed in their own fat,” with “fat” symbolizing an unresponsive heart). In the books of Samuel, <em> sâgar </em> is used in the special sense of “to deliver up,” implying that all avenues of escape “are closed”: “This day will the Lord deliver thee into mine hand …” (1 Sam. 17:46; cf. 1 Sam. 24:18; 26:8; 2 Sam. 18:28). </p> <p> In Lev. 13-14, in which the priest functions as a medical inspector of contagious diseases, <em> sâgar </em> is used a number of times in the sense of “to isolate, to shut up” a sick person away from other people ( <em> see </em> Lev. 13:5, 11, 21, 26). The more extreme sense of “to imprison” is found in Job 11:10: “If he cut off, and shut up, or gather together, then who can hinder him?” </p>

<p> SHUT, pretand pp. shut. </p> 1. To close so as to hinder ingress or egress as, to shut a door or gate to shut the eyes or the mouth. 2. To prohibit to bar to forbid entrance into as, to shut the ports of the kingdom by a blockade. <p> Shall that be shut to man, which to the beast </p> <p> Is open? Milton. </p> 3. To preclude to exclude. <p> But shut from every shore. Dryden. </p> 4. To close, as the fingers to contract as, to shut the hand.