# neilah (נְעִילָה)

pronounced: ne-i-LA


**“Locking” — the closing service of Yom Kippur, when the gates are shut on the year's verdict**

## In Scripture

> Then Ehud went out onto the porch, and shut the doors of the upper room on him, and locked them.
> — Judges 3:23 (The plain verb behind the service's name: to bolt a door shut.)

> A locked up garden is my sister, my bride; a locked up spring, a sealed fountain.
> — Song of Songs 4:12 (The same root as an image of what is kept and sealed — a garden, a spring, a fountain.)


## How to read this entry

The definition comes from the IsraelForYou lexicon. Scripture quotations and their translation are named below; later tradition or modern usage is identified when it appears.


https://israelforyou.com/hebrew/neilah/