atam · close, shut

What it means

atam (אָטַם) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “close, shut”.

Close, stop up (the lips, the ears). Of a window, to be closed or narrowed inward; its exact sense in 1 Kings 6:4 is uncertain.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To stop or seal something so that it does not open: ears, lips or windows.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• closed ×4
• stops ×2
• whoever shuts ×2

Where it appears

• 1 Kings×1
• Psalms×1
• Proverbs×2
• Isaiah×1
• Ezekiel×3

• 1 Kings 6:4

  And he made for the house windows with closed frames.

• Psalms 58:4

  They have venom like the venom of a serpent, like a deaf cobra that stops its ear,

• Proverbs 17:28

  Even a fool who keeps silent is considered wise; whoever shuts his lips, discerning.

• Proverbs 21:13

  Whoever shuts his ear to the cry of the poor, he too will cry out and will not be answered.

• Isaiah 33:15

  He who walks in righteous deeds and speaks uprightly, who rejects the gain of oppressions, who shakes his hands from holding a bribe, who stops his ear from hearing of bloodshed, and shuts his eyes from looking on evil,

• Ezekiel 40:16

  And there were closed windows toward the guardrooms and toward their pilasters inside the gate all around, and likewise for the porticoes; and windows all around, inside; and on each pilaster were palm trees.

• Ezekiel 41:16

  the thresholds and the closed windows and the terraces all around for the three of them, opposite the threshold, paneled with wood all around, and from the floor to the windows, and the windows were covered;

• Ezekiel 41:26

  And there were closed windows and palm trees on this side and on that side, on the sides of the portico, and the side chambers of the house, and the canopies.