Limitless Word
אָטַםʼâṭam/aw-tam'/
HebrewH3318 occurrences (KJV)

to close (the lips or ears); by analology to contract (a window by bevelled jambs)

KJV renders it: narrow, shut, stop.

Where it appears

  • 1 Kgs 6:4He made windows of fixed lattice work for the house.
  • Ps 58:4Their poison is like the poison of a snake; like a deaf cobra that stops its ear,
  • Prov 17:28Even a fool, when he keeps silent, is counted wise. When he shuts his lips, he is thought to be discerning.
  • Prov 21:13Whoever stops his ears at the cry of the poor, he will also cry out, but shall not be heard.
  • Isa 33:15He who walks righteously, and speaks blamelessly; He who despises the gain of oppressions, who gestures with his hands, refusing to take a bribe, who stops his ears from hearing of blood, and shuts his eyes from looking at evil —
  • Ezek 40:16There were closed windows to the lodges, and to their posts within the gate all around, and likewise to the arches; and windows were around inward; and on each post were palm trees.
  • Ezek 41:16the thresholds, and the closed windows, and the galleries around on their three stories, over against the threshold, with wood ceilings all around, and from the ground up to the windows, (now the windows were covered),
  • Ezek 41:26There were closed windows and palm trees on the one side and on the other side, on the sides of the porch: thus were the side rooms of the house, and the thresholds.

Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.