'Barred' in the Bible

Now Jericho was shut up and was barred, because of the children of Israel: none went out, and none came in.

When it was reported to Saul that David had gone to Keilah, he said, “God has handed him over to me, for he has trapped himself by entering a town with barred gates.”

He made upper Beth Horon and lower Beth Horon fortified cities with walls and barred gates,

He said to the people of Judah: "Let's build these cities and fortify them with walls, towers, and barred gates. The land remains ours because we have followed the Lord our God and he has made us secure on all sides." So they built the cities and prospered.

Will it go down to the barred gates of death? Will we descend together into the dust?"

A relative offended is harder to reach than a strong city, and disputes are like the barred gates of a fortified citadel.

“A garden enclosed is my sister, my [promised] bride—A rock garden locked, a spring sealed up.

You will say, "I will invade a land of unwalled towns; I will advance against those living quietly in security -- all of them living without walls and barred gates --

I went down to the very bottoms of the mountains; the gates of the netherworld barred me in forever; but you brought me up from the Pit, O Lord, my God.

"And he from indoors shall answer, "'Do not pester me. The door is now barred, and I am here in bed with my children. I cannot get up and give you bread.'