shut describes moving about through a place, whether ranging widely, carrying out a search, or wandering in distress.

The verb most often marks broad movement over land or throughout the earth; it also describes directed traversal for a task and, in two settings, wandering connected with failed seeking or mourning.

1. Ranging widely over a land or the earth · dominant

   In Job 1:7 and Job 2:2, Qal infinitive constructs answer the question of where the Satan has come from, with the APB rendering movement "in the land" and "on the earth." Polel participles in 2 Chronicles 16:9 and Zechariah 4:10 describe the LORD's eyes throughout all the earth, while Daniel 12:4 has many people moving about.

   Job 1:7Job 2:22 Chronicles 16:9Zechariah 4:10Daniel 12:4
2. Traversing an area for a specific task · common

   Qal imperatives and forms of completed movement place the action within purposeful activity: Numbers 11:8 links the people's movement with gathering food, and 2 Samuel 24:2 directs movement through Israel for a registration. In 2 Samuel 24:8 the travelers have gone through the whole land before returning, and Jeremiah 5:1 commands movement through Jerusalem's streets and plazas in order to look for a person doing justice and seeking faithfulness.

   Numbers 11:82 Samuel 24:22 Samuel 24:8Jeremiah 5:1
3. Wandering amid loss or unsuccessful seeking · occasional

   In Amos 8:12, a Polel imperfect describes movement from sea to sea and from north to east while seeking the word of the LORD without finding it. Jeremiah 49:3 uses a Hithpolel imperative addressed to the daughters of Rabbah, alongside commands to wail and mourn after ruin and impending captivity.

   Amos 8:12Jeremiah 49:3

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB variously presents the movement as "range," "rove," "wander," "going to and fro," and "roaming about." Because its English is a whole-verse translation, these expressions show the verse-level presentation of movement rather than fixed individual renderings.