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# סָגַר

Biblical Hebrew

**shut** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

shut [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/lemma_3a_5e1_5b8_5d2_5b7_5e8/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

סְגוֹר: enclosure, encasement Qal Qal [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/lemma_3a_5e1_5b8_5d2_5b7_5e8/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] enclosure, encasement;—cstr. סְגוֹר לִבָּם Ho 13:8 the encasement of their heart (pericardium; i.e. their vitals).—סְגוֹר Jb 28:15 must = fine gold, si vera l., but v. סגר, Qal ad fin.; סְגֹר ψ 35:3 v. id., Qal 2 b.

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech differs, 0 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: lance (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 35:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.35.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.35.3/#tree)

וְהָ֘רֵ֤ק חֲנִ֣ית וּ֭סְגֹר לִקְרַ֣את רֹדְפָ֑י אֱמֹ֥ר לְ֝נַפְשִׁ֗י יְֽשֻׁעָתֵ֥ךְ אָֽנִי׃

*Word for word:* and draw.out a.spear and lance to meet \[those who\].pursue.me say to self my salvation \[am\].your I

*JPS 1917:* Draw out also the spear, and the battle-axe, against them that pursue me; say unto my soul: 'I am Thy salvation.'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5e1_5b8_5d2_5b7_5e8.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/lemma_3a_5e1_5b8_5d2_5b7_5e8/): 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).