shut · go about, roam

What it means

shut (שׁוּט) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “go about, roam”.

Go here and there, roam through.

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. Those who work the oars to move a ship along.
2. To go back and forth over a place, looking it over or searching for something.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• Roam ×2
• roaming ×2
• rowers ×2
• run to and fro ×2
• They went through ×1
• go through ×1
• range ×1
• will rush here and there ×1
• would go about ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Numbers×1
• 2 Samuel×2
• 2 Chronicles×1
• Job×2
• Jeremiah×2
• Ezekiel×2
• Daniel×1
• Amos×1
• Zechariah×1

• Numbers 11:8

  The people would go about and gather it, and grind it in mills or beat it in a mortar, and boil it in pots, and make it into cakes; and its taste was like the taste of cakes baked with oil.

• 2 Samuel 24:2

  The king said to Joab, the commander of the army, who was with him, “Please go through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan to Beersheba, and count the people, so that I may know the number of the people.”

• 2 Samuel 24:8

  They went through all the land and came at the end of nine months and twenty days to Jerusalem.

• 2 Chronicles 16:9

  For the eyes of YHWH range through all the earth to show himself strong with those whose heart is whole toward him. You have acted foolishly in this, for from now on there will be wars against you.”

• Job 1:7

  YHWH said to the Satan, “Where do you come from?” The Satan answered YHWH and said, “From roaming the earth and walking about on it.”

• Job 2:2

  YHWH said to the Satan, “Where do you come from?” The Satan answered YHWH and said, “From roaming the earth and walking about on it.”

• Jeremiah 5:1

  Roam through the streets of Jerusalem, and look, please, and know, and search in its squares, if you can find a man, if there is one who does justice, who seeks faithfulness, and I will pardon her.

• Jeremiah 49:3

  Wail, Heshbon, for Ai is devastated! Cry out, daughters of Rabbah! Gird on sackcloth, lament, and run to and fro among the enclosures; for their king will go into exile, his priests and his princes together.

• Ezekiel 27:8

  The inhabitants of Sidon and Arvad were your rowers; your wise men, Tyre, were in you; they were your pilots.

• Ezekiel 27:26

  Into many waters your rowers have brought you; the east wind has broken you in the heart of the seas.

• Daniel 12:4

  And you, Daniel, keep secret the words and seal the book until the time of the end; many will rush here and there, and knowledge will increase.”

• Amos 8:12

  And they will stagger from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east; they will run to and fro to seek the word of YHWH, but they will not find it.

• Zechariah 4:10

  For who has despised the day of small things? And they will rejoice and see the stone of tin in the hand of Zerubbabel. These seven are the eyes of YHWH; they roam through all the earth.”