Bible Dictionaries
Shut
King James Dictionary
SHUT, pretand pp. shut.
1. To close so as to hinder ingress or egress as, to shut a door or gate to shut the eyes or the mouth.
2. To prohibit to bar to forbid entrance into as, to shut the ports of the kingdom by a blockade.
Shall that be shut to man, which to the beast
Is open? Milton.
3. To preclude to exclude.
But shut from every shore. Dryden.
4. To close, as the fingers to contract as, to shut the hand.
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