'Shut' in the Bible

Male and female of all flesh went in, as God had said, and the ark was shut by the Lord.

And the fountains of the deep and the windows of heaven were shut, and the rain from heaven was stopped.

And he put them in prison under the care of the captain of the army, in the same prison where Joseph himself was shut up.

And Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, They are wandering without direction, they are shut in by the waste land.

If, in a fight, one man gives another a blow with a stone, or with the shut hand, not causing his death, but making him keep in bed;

But if the mark on his skin is white, and does not seem to go deeper than the skin, and the hair on it is not turned white, then the priest will keep him shut up for seven days;

And the priest is to see him on the seventh day; and if, in his opinion, the place on his skin has not become worse and is not increased in size, then the priest will keep him shut up for seven days more:

It is an old disease in the skin of his flesh, and the priest will say that he is unclean; he will not have to be shut up, for he is clearly unclean.

But if, after looking at it, he sees that there are no white hairs on it, and it is not deeper than the skin, and it is not very bright, then let the priest keep him shut up for seven days:

But if, after looking at it, the priest sees that there is no white hair on the bright place, and it is not deeper than the skin, and is not very bright, then let the priest keep him shut up for seven days:

And after looking at the diseased place, if it does not seem to go deeper than the skin, and there is no black hair in it, then the priest will have him shut up for seven days:

Then his hair is to be cut off, but not on the diseased place, and he is to be shut up for seven days more:

And after it has been seen by the priest, the thing which is so marked is to be shut up for seven days:

Then the priest will give orders for the thing on which the mark is, to be washed, and to be shut up for seven days more:

Then the priest will go out of the door of the house, and keep the house shut up for seven days:

And, in addition, anyone who goes into the house at any time, while it is shut up, will be unclean till evening.

And they kept him shut up, till a decision might be given by the mouth of the Lord.

And the Lord said to Moses, If her father had put a mark of shame on her, would she not be shamed for seven days? Let her be shut up outside the tent-circle for seven days, and after that she may come in again.

So Miriam was shut up outside the tent-circle for seven days: and the people did not go forward on their journey till Miriam had come in again.

And they had him shut up, because they had no directions about what was to be done with him.

So they and all theirs went down living into the underworld, and the earth was shut over them, and they were cut off from among the meeting of the people.

And Beth-nimrah and Beth-haran: walled towns and shut-in places for sheep.

For if you do so, the wrath of the Lord will be burning against you, and the heaven will be shut up so that there is no rain and the land will give no fruit; and in a very little time you will be cut off from the good land which the Lord is giving you.

If in any of your towns in the land which the Lord your God is giving you, there is a poor man, one of your countrymen, do not let your heart be hard or your hand shut to him;

If however it will not make peace with you, but war, then let it be shut in on all sides:

If in war a town is shut in by your armies for a long time, do not let its trees be cut down and made waste; for their fruit will be your food; are the trees of the countryside men for you to take up arms against them?

Your towns will be shut in by his armies, till your high walls, in which you put your faith, have come down: his armies will be round your towns, through all your land which the Lord your God has given you.

But if your heart is turned away and your ear is shut, and you go after those who would make you servants and worshippers of other gods:

For the Lord will be judge of his people, he will have pity for his servants; when he sees that their power is gone, there is no one, shut up or free.

So the men went after them on the road to Jordan as far as the river-crossing: and when they had gone out after them, the door into the town was shut.

(Now Jericho was all shut up because of the children of Israel: there was no going out or coming in.)

And they went on waiting till they were shamed, but the doors were still shut; so they took the key, and, opening them, saw their lord stretched out dead on the floor.

And news was given to Saul that David had come to Keilah. And Saul said, Now God has given him into my hands; for by going into a walled town with locked doors, he has let himself be shut in.

And David came to his house at Jerusalem: and the king took the ten women to whom he had given the care of the house, and had them shut up, and gave them the necessaries of life, but did not go near them. So they were shut up till the day of their death, living as widows.

And Joab and his men got him shut up in Abel of Beth-maacah, and put up an earthwork against the town: and all Joab's men did their best to get the wall broken down.

And at the back of the house a further space of twenty cubits was shut in with boards of cedar-wood, for the inmost room.

When heaven is shut up and there is no rain, because of their sin against you; if they make prayers with their faces turned to this place, honouring your name and turning away from their sin when you send trouble on them:

If there is no food in the land, or if there is disease, or if the fruits of the earth are damaged through heat or water, locust or worm; if their towns are shut in by their attackers; whatever trouble, whatever disease there may be:

So I will send evil on the line of Jeroboam, cutting off from his family every male child, those who are shut up and those who go free in Israel; the family of Jeroboam will be brushed away like a man brushing away waste till it is all gone.

See, I will send evil on you and put an end to you completely, cutting off from Ahab every male child, him who is shut up and him who goes free in Israel;

So she went away, and when the door was shut on her and her sons, they took the vessels to her and she put oil into them.

And they became very short of food in Samaria; for they kept it shut in till the price of an ass's head was eighty shekels of silver, and a small measure of doves' droppings was five shekels of silver.

For the family of Ahab will come to an end; every male of Ahab's family will be cut off, he who is shut up and he who goes free in Israel.

For the Lord saw how bitter was the trouble of Israel, and that everyone was cut off, he who was shut up and he who went free, and that Israel had no helper.

But Hoshea's broken faith became clear to the king of Assyria because he had sent representatives to So, king of Egypt, and did not send his offering to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year: so the king of Assyria had him shut up in prison and put in chains.

But the Rab-shakeh said to them, Is it to your master or to you that my master has sent me to say these words? has he not sent me to the men seated on the wall? for they are the people who will be short of food with you when the town is shut in.

At that time the armies of Nebuchadnezzar came up to Jerusalem and the town was shut in on every side.

And the town was shut in by their forces till the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.

Now these are the men who came to David at Ziklag, while he was still shut up, because of Saul, the son of Kish; they were among the strong men, his helpers in war.

When heaven is shut up and there is no rain, because of their sin against you: if they make prayers with their faces turned to this place, honouring your name and turning away from their sin when you send trouble on them:

If there is no food in the land, if there is disease, if the fruits of the earth are damaged by heat or water, locust or worm; if their towns are shut in by their attackers: whatever trouble or whatever disease there may be:

If, at my word, heaven is shut up, so that there is no rain, or if I send locusts on the land for its destruction, or if I send disease on my people;

The doors of his house have been shut and the lights put out; no perfumes have been burned or offerings made to the God of Israel in his holy place.

And I went to the house of Shemaiah, the son of Delaiah, the son of Mehetabel, who was shut up; and he said, Let us have a meeting in the house of God, inside the Temple, and let the doors be shut: for they will come to put you to death; truly, in the night they will come to put you to death.

And I said to them, Do not let the doors of Jerusalem be open till the sun is high; and while the watchmen are in their places, let the doors be shut and locked: and let the people of Jerusalem be put on watch, every one in his watch, opposite his house.

And so, when the streets of Jerusalem were getting dark before the Sabbath, I gave orders for the doors to be shut and not to be open again till after the Sabbath: and I put some of my servants by the door so that nothing might be taken in on the Sabbath day.

Because it did not keep the doors of my mother's body shut, so that trouble might be veiled from my eyes.

To a man whose way is veiled, and who is shut in by God?

Truly, that man is happy who has training from the hand of God: so do not let your heart be shut to the teaching of the Ruler of all.

He whose heart is shut against his friend has given up the fear of the Ruler of all.

So I will not keep my mouth shut; I will let the words come from it in the pain of my spirit, my soul will make a bitter outcry.

Truly, there is no building up of what is pulled down by him; when a man is shut up by him, no one may let him loose.

My wrongdoing is corded up in a bag, and my sin is shut up safe.

By him the waters are shut up in his thick clouds, and the cloud does not give way under them.

By the breath of God ice is made, and the wide waters are shut in.

A great herd of oxen is round me: I am shut in by the strong oxen of Bashan.

Dogs have come round me: I am shut in by the band of evil-doers; they made wounds in my hands and feet.

Let me not be shamed, O Lord, for I have made my prayer to you; let the sinners be shamed, and let their mouths be shut in the underworld.

Let the false lips be shut, which say evil against the upright, looking down on him in their pride.

When I kept my mouth shut, my bones were wasted, because of my crying all through the day.

I was quiet, and kept my mouth shut; because you had done it.

Give hearing to my prayer, O God; and let not your ear be shut against my request.

Their poison is like the poison of a snake; they are like the adder, whose ears are shut;

Let me not be covered by the flowing waters; let not the deep waters go over my head, and let me not be shut up in the underworld.

Has God put away the memory of his pity? are his mercies shut up by his wrath? (Selah.)

O Lord, God of my salvation, I have been crying to you for help by day and by night:

Their hearts are shut up with fat; but my delight is in your law.

I am shut in by you on every side, and you have put your hand on me.

Because your ears were shut to my voice; no one gave attention to my out-stretched hand;

Where there is much talk there will be no end to sin, but he who keeps his mouth shut does wisely.

A wise son is a lover of teaching, but the ears of the haters of authority are shut to sharp words.

He whose eyes are shut is a man of twisted purposes, and he who keeps his lips shut tight makes evil come about.

Even the foolish man, when he keeps quiet, is taken to be wise: when his lips are shut he is credited with good sense.

Wisdom is outside the power of the foolish: he keeps his mouth shut in the public place.

When the doors are shut in the street, and the sound of the crushing is low, and the voice of the bird is soft, and the daughters of music will be made low;

A garden walled-in is my sister, my bride; a garden shut up, a spring of water stopped.

If she is a wall, we will make on her a strong base of silver; and if she is a door, we will let her be shut up with cedar-wood.

And the daughter of Zion has become like a tent in a vine-garden, like a watchman's house in a field of fruit, like a town shut in by armies.

Make the hearts of this people fat, and let their ears be stopped, and their eyes shut; for fear that they may see with their eyes, and be hearing with their ears, and their heart may become wise, and they may be turned to me and made well.

And I will give the key of the family of David into his care; and what he keeps open will be shut by no one, and what he keeps shut no one will make open.

The town is waste and broken down: every house is shut up, so that no man may come in.

Come, my people, into your secret places, and let your doors be shut: keep yourself safe for a short time, till his wrath is over.

And I will make war on you like David, and you will be shut in by earthworks, and I will make towers round you.

For the Lord has sent on you a spirit of deep sleep; and by him your eyes, the prophets, are shut, and your heads, the seers, are covered.

And the vision of all this has become to you like the words of a book which is shut, which men give to one who has knowledge of writing, saying, Make clear to us what is in the book: and he says, I am not able to, for the book is shut:

And the eyes of those who see will not be shut, and those who have hearing will give ear to the word.

He whose ways are true, and whose words are upright; he who gives no thought to the profits of false acts, whose hands have not taken rewards, who will have no part in putting men to death, and whose eyes are shut against evil;

He will have a place on high: he will be safely shut in by the high rocks: his bread will be given to him; his waters will be certain.

But the Rab-shakeh said, Is it to your master or to you that my master has sent me to say these words? has he not sent me to the men seated on the wall? for they are the people who will be short of food with you when the town is shut in.

To give eyes to the blind, to make free the prisoners from the prison, to let out those who are shut up in the dark.