Words the Bible translates as close
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 8 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- sunteleiaσυντέλειαthe completion of an age: the appointed moment when a whole stretch of time reaches the finish it was heading for
- kleiōκλείωto shut, close: to move a door, gate, or other barrier into its closed position so that nothing can pass through
- ummahעֻמָּהclose beside, or corresponding to: one thing set directly parallel to another, in space or in kind
- atsomעָצֹםto shut the eyes; to close them firmly
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- to grow vast, whether in numbers or in strength
- to gnaw or break the bones of a victim
- satamסָתַםto close something off so that nothing can get through it, and so make it inaccessible: from stopping up a well to sealing a message shut
- anagkaiosἀναγκαῖοςclosely bound: an intimate friend or relative, tied to a person by the bonds of kinship or deep friendship
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- necessary: something that cannot be done without, or that duty, circumstances, or plain logic require
- qaphatsקָפַץto shut something tight, especially a hand or a mouth, so that nothing comes out of it.
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- to bound: to spring lightly across rough ground.
- kammuōκαμμύωto closenot studied yet
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