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title: אִטֵּר — shut up · The Tanakh dictionary
description: אִטֵּר (334), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 2 times: shut up. BDB 1906: adj. shut up, bound. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# אִטֵּר

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«אִטֵּר» in the Tanakh dictionary: **shut up** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 2 times · **Key:** 334 · **BDB:** אִטֵּר

### Glosses

impeded (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

shut up [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/334/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

adj. shut up, bound [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/334/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** adj. shut up, bound (NH אִטֵּר, lame) אִישׁ א׳ יַד־יְמִינוֹ Ju 3:15; 20:16 a man bound, restricted, as to his right hand, i.e. left-handed.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «אִטֵּר» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/334/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Judges 20:16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.20.16/)

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מִכֹּ֣ל ׀ הָעָ֣ם הַזֶּ֗ה שְׁבַ֤ע מֵאוֹת֙ אִ֣ישׁ בָּח֔וּר אִטֵּ֖ר יַד־יְמִינ֑וֹ כָּל־זֶ֗ה קֹלֵ֧עַ בָּאֶ֛בֶן אֶל־הַֽשַּׂעֲרָ֖ה וְלֹ֥א יַחֲטִֽא׃פ

*Word for word:* \[were\].from all the people (the) this seven hundred(s) man chosen impeded the.hand his.right.side his all this \[was\].slinging with the stone to the.single hair and not he.missed

*JPS 1917:* All this people, even seven hundred chosen men, were left-handed; every one could sling stones at a hair-breadth, and not miss.

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[Judges 3:15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.3.15/)

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וַיִּזְעֲק֣וּ בְנֵֽי־יִשְׂרָאֵל֮ אֶל־יְהוָה֒ וַיָּקֶם֩ יְהוָ֨ה לָהֶ֜ם מוֹשִׁ֗יעַ אֶת־אֵה֤וּד בֶּן־גֵּרָא֙ בֶּן־הַיְמִינִ֔י אִ֥ישׁ אִטֵּ֖ר יַד־יְמִינ֑וֹ וַיִּשְׁלְח֨וּ בְנֵי־יִשְׂרָאֵ֤ל בְּיָדוֹ֙ מִנְחָ֔ה לְעֶגְל֖וֹן מֶ֥לֶךְ מוֹאָֽב׃

*Word for word:* and they.cried.out the.people of.Israel to Yahweh and he.raised.up Yahweh for them a.deliverer (et) Ehud the.son of.Gera the.Ben- (the) jaminite a.man impeded the.hand his.right.side his and they.sent the.people of.Israel by hand his tribute to Eglon the.king of.Moab

*JPS 1917:* But when the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, the LORD raised them up a saviour, Ehud the son of Gera, the Benjamite, a man left-handed; and the children of Israel sent a present by him unto Eglon the king of Moab.

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