אָטַם
ʼâṭam · aw-tam'
to close (the lips or ears); by analology to contract (a window by bevelled jambs)
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root;
to close (the lips or ears); by analology to contract (a window by bevelled jambs)
- to close (the lips or ears)
- by analology to contract (a window by bevelled jambs)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: narrow, shut, stop.
Letters
- אAlef1
Picture: ox head
- Concrete
- ox · bull · cattle
- Extended
- strength · leader · first · the one in front
- טTet9
Picture: a basket, or something coiled
- Concrete
- basket · coil · snake · container
- Extended
- to surround · to contain · to store · to twist
- מMem40
Picture: waves of water
- Concrete
- water · sea · blood · liquid
- Extended
- chaos · mighty and uncontrollable · the masses · from / out of
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
strength, the leader › to surround and contain › water, chaos, the mighty deep
Strength, the leader that works to surround and contain of water, chaos, the mighty deep.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of אָטַם above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
8 occurrences · 8 OT · 0 NT · 8 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- that stoppeth2 · 25%
- and there were narrow2 · 25%
- of narrow1 · 13%
- and he that shutteth1 · 13%
- whoso stoppeth1 · 13%
- and the narrow1 · 13%
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.