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# דָּגַר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1716

**gather together as a brood** — used 2 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

gather together as a brood [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1716/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

דָּגַר: vb. gather together as brood [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1716/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. gather together as a brood (cf. Aramaic דְּגַר heap together; so ܕܓܰܪ Nasar.)— Pf. 3 ms. דָּגָר Je 17:11; 3 fs. דָּֽגְרָה Is 34:15—gather together into its shadow Is 34:15 (of קִפֹּז, q.v.), דָּגָר וְלֹא יָלָ֑ד Je 17:11 (of partiridge; sim. of one getting riches unjustly).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 words shared with the BDB entry, 2 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: \[which\] it gathers a brood (1); it will gather a brood (1).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 34:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.34.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.34.15/#tree)

שָׁ֣מָּה קִנְּנָ֤ה קִפּוֹז֙ וַתְּמַלֵּ֔ט וּבָקְעָ֖ה וְדָגְרָ֣ה בְצִלָּ֑הּ אַךְ־שָׁ֛ם נִקְבְּצ֥וּ דַיּ֖וֹת אִשָּׁ֥ה רְעוּתָֽהּ׃

*Word for word:* there (to) it.will.make.a.nest arrow.snake\[s\] and it.laid.eggs and it.will.hatch and it.will.gather.a.brood in shadow its surely there they.will.be.gathered red.kites each companion its

*JPS 1917:* There shall the arrowsnake make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and brood under her shadow; yea, there shall the kites be gathered, every one with her mate.

[Jeremiah 17:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.17.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.17.11/#tree)

קֹרֵ֤א דָגַר֙ וְלֹ֣א יָלָ֔ד עֹ֥שֶׂה עֹ֖שֶׁר וְלֹ֣א בְמִשְׁפָּ֑ט בַּחֲצִ֤י יָמָיו֙ יַעַזְבֶ֔נּוּ וּבְאַחֲרִית֖וֹ יִהְיֶ֥ה נָבָֽל׃

*Word for word:* a.partridge \[which\].it.gathers.a.brood and not it.has.laid \[one.who\].makes wealth and not with justice in the.middle his.days his it will.leave.him and at end his he.will.be a.fool

*JPS 1917:* As the partridge that broodeth over young which she hath not brought forth, so is he that getteth riches, and not by right; in the midst of his days he shall leave them, and at his end he shall be a fool.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1716.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1716/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).