Does "Within and Without" mean Listening and Speaking?

The term "within and without" is used allegorically many times in the bible. I think it is referring to speaking and listening. In Genesis 6:14 Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch." We are told that one must cut away our senses in meditation, and being silent and listening is chanting a single sound, OM, so that you are focusing on speaking just the one sound, and focusing on hearing just the one sound.