Strong's #331: 'atam (pronounced aw-tam')

a primitive root; to close (the lips or ears); by analology to contract (a window by bevelled jambs):--narrow, shut, stop.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

'âṭam

1) to shut, shut up, close

1a) (Qal) to shut, stop (of lips)

1b) (Hiphil) of the wicked stopping their ears (figuratively)

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Usage:

This word is used 8 times:

 

1 Kings 6:4: "And for the house he made windows of narrow lights."
Psalms 58:4: "they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;"
Proverbs 17:28: "when he holdeth his peace, wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding."
Proverbs 21:13: " Whoso stoppeth his ears at the cry he also shall cry himself,"
Isaiah 33:15: "his hands from holding of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing"
Ezekiel 40:16: " And there were narrow windows to and to their posts within the gate"
Ezekiel 41:16: "The door posts, and the narrow windows, round about on their three stories, over against the door,"
Ezekiel 41:26: " And there were narrow windows and palm trees and on the other side, on"