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# נָעַל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5274

**bar** — used 6 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

bar [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5274/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נָעַל: vb. bar, bolt, lock [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5274/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. bar, bolt, lock (NH id.);— Pf. 3 ms. נָעַל 2 S 13:18, נָעָ֑ל Ju 3:23; Imv. נְעֹל 2 S 13:17; Pt. pass. נָעוּל Ct 4:12(×2); fpl. נְעֻלוֹת Ju 3:24;—bar, bolt, lock, usually c. acc. דֶּלֶת, דְּלָתוֹת: Ju 3:23, + אַחֲרֵי after, behind, v 24; 2 S 13:17, 18; elsewhere only גַּן נָעוּל Ct 4:12 a garden barred (fig. of Shulamite), so also v 12b (reading גַּן for גַּל, Vrss Gr Bu).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: locked (2); \[were\] locked (1); he locked (1).

## In the verses

[Song of Songs 4:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.4.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.4.12/#tree)

גַּ֥ן ׀ נָע֖וּל אֲחֹתִ֣י כַלָּ֑ה גַּ֥ל נָע֖וּל מַעְיָ֥ן חָתֽוּם׃

*Word for word:* \[is\].a.garden locked sister my bride a.spring locked a.spring sealed.up

*JPS 1917:* A garden shut up is my sister, my bride; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed.

[Judges 3:23](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.3.23/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.3.23/#tree)

וַיֵּצֵ֥א אֵה֖וּד הַֽמִּסְדְּר֑וֹנָה וַיִּסְגֹּ֞ר דַּלְת֧וֹת הָעַלִיָּ֛ה בַּעֲד֖וֹ וְנָעָֽל׃

*Word for word:* and he.went.out Ehud to the porch and he.closed the.doors of the.roof.chamber behind him and he.locked.\[them\]

*JPS 1917:* Then Ehud went forth into the porch, and shut the doors of the upper chamber upon him, and locked them.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5274.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5274/): 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).