[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/shut.html) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [dictionaries](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/) / [The Judaism dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/) / shut [← S](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/S/) # shut «shut» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **to close it, like a door, a window, a box or your eyes** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it. ### part of speech verb (shut, shuts, shut, shutting); adjective (shut) ### meaning for a pupil 1) To shut something means to close it, like a door, a window, a box or your eyes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/shut/#m1) 2) Shut (adjective) means closed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/shut/#m2) 3) When a shop or place shuts, it stops being open for business. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/shut/#m3) ### sense in the lessons In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: To shut is to close a door, and also to shut someone in, such as a person with a plague. In poems it is a figure of speech: shutting up compassion means holding it back, and shutting the heart means being hard and proud. Interpretation: The tradition reads "Hath He in anger shut up His compassions?" as the worry of a sufferer, not as fact about God. It teaches that God's mercy stays open to those who return to Him. In the primary lessons: In everyday life and safety: shut the gate so the dog can't run into the road, shut the fridge door, keep fire doors shut, and shut doors at night to slow a fire. Shops shut at certain times (maths problems use opening and closing times). «Shut up» means stop talking, but it is rude; say «Please be quiet». «Shut down» means turn off a computer or close a business. «Shut your eyes» is used in games and at bedtime. ### examples - And Lot went out unto them to the door, and shut the door after him. (Torah GEN.19.6, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/shut/#x1) - And the priest shall look upon the plague, and shut up that which hath the plague seven days. (Torah LEV.13.50, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/shut/#x2) - But the men put forth their hand, and brought Lot into the house to them, and the door they shut. (Torah GEN.19.10, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/shut/#x3) - Hath He in anger shut up his compassions?' Selah (Writings PSA.77.10, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/shut/#x4) - His scales are his pride, shut up together as with a close seal. (Writings JOB.41.7, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/shut/#x5) - Their gross heart they have shut tight, with their mouth they speak proudly. (Writings PSA.17.10, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/shut/#x6) - Please shut the door behind you. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/shut/#x7) - Shut your eyes and make a wish. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/shut/#x8) - The shop shuts at six o'clock. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/shut/#x9) - Keep the gate shut so the dog stays in. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/shut/#x10) - The window is shut because it's cold. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/shut/#x11) - Shut down the computer before you leave. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/shut/#x12) - Fire doors must always be kept shut. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/shut/#x13) - He shut the book with a bang. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/shut/#x14) - 'Shut your eyes then,' replied the stone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/shut/#x15) ### note Irregular but easy: shut, shut, shut (no «shutted»). «Shutting» has double t. «Shut» and «close» are mostly the same; «close» is a bit more polite. «Shut up» is rude. «Shut» for a shop is common in British English; Americans say «closed». ### In the corpora - [And Lot went out unto them to the door, and shut the door after him.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.484/) - [But the men put forth their hand, and brought Lot into the house to them, and the door they shut.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.488/) - [And Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel: They are entangled in the land, the wilderness hath shut them in.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.387/) - [And the priest shall look upon the plague, and shut up that which hath the plague seven days.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.360/) - [then the priest shall command that they wash the thing wherein the plague is, and he shall shut it up seven days more.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.364/) ### Trees and pragmatics [Every meaning and example of «shut» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/shut/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.