'Shut' in the Bible

And when [it was time] to shut the gate {for the night}, the men left, and I do not know where they went. Chase after them quickly, for you may catch up [to] them."

So the men chased after them on {the way to the Jordan} at the fords; and they shut the gate behind the pursuers that had gone out after them.

Now Jericho [was] shut up inside and out because of the presence of the {Israelites}; no one was going out or coming in.