Strong's Concordance atsah: to shut Original Word: עָצָהPart of Speech: Verb Transliteration: atsah Phonetic Spelling: (aw-tsaw') Short Definition: winks Brown-Driver-Briggs I. [עָצָה] verb shut (Arabic ( and  )  IV. shut eyes; Ethiopic  : shut door); — Qal Participle active עֹצֶה עֵינָיו Proverbs 16:30 he that shuts his eyes (SS compare עצּם [Isaiah 29:10], which Gr reads). II. עצה (√ of following; meaning dubious; compare Sabean עצֿם wood DHMZMG xxxvii (1883), 341, 412, Arabic Strong's Exhaustive Concordance shut A primitive root; properly, to fasten (or make firm), i.e. To close (the eyes) -- shut. Forms and Transliterations הַיְּעוּצָ֖ה היעוצה עֹצֶ֣ה עצה ‘ō·ṣeh ‘ōṣeh haiyeuTzah hay·yə·‘ū·ṣāh hayyə‘ūṣāh oTzehLinks Interlinear Greek • Interlinear Hebrew • Strong's Numbers • Englishman's Greek Concordance • Englishman's Hebrew Concordance • Parallel TextsEnglishman's Concordance Strong's Hebrew 60952 Occurrences hay·yə·‘ū·ṣāh — 1 Occ. ‘ō·ṣeh — 1 Occ. Proverbs 16:30 HEB: עֹצֶ֣ה עֵ֭ינָיו לַחְשֹׁ֣ב NAS: He who winks his eyes KJV: He shutteth his eyes to devise INT: winks his eyes devise Isaiah 14:26 |
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, originally 
noun of individual meaning of 
large, thorny trees (see Lane; also NöGGA 1862, 544; ZMG xxxii (1878), 406 LagBN 158 f.); Ethiopic 
: tree, wood; Assyrian iƒ(ƒ)u; Phoenician עץ wood; Late Hebrew = Biblical Hebrew; Aramaic אָע (initial א by dissimilation); BaNB §2,c.1 thinks originally biliteral).