stopping up in Germany
stopping up [stɔpiŋʌp] zustopfend
Sentence patterns related to "stopping up"
1. They reacted by stopping up the wells dug by Isaac’s father, Abraham, and their king asked Isaac to leave the area.
2. (Psalm 51:17) How could he refuse to hear our cries for help when he himself condemns “anyone stopping up his ear from the complaining cry of the lowly one”? —Proverbs 21:13.
3. 13 By way of contrast, Jehovah next says: “There is one who is walking in continual righteousness and speaking what is upright, who is rejecting the unjust gain from frauds, who is shaking his hands clear from taking hold on a bribe, who is stopping up his ear from listening to bloodshed, and who is closing his eyes so as not to see what is bad.