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# סוּגַר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5474

**cage** — 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

cage [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5474/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

סוּגַר: cage, prison [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5474/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] cage, prison (poss. loan-word from Assyrian šigaru, cage (BaNB 22); NH סוּגָר 6 or chain = Syriac ܣܽܘܓܳܪܳܐ (clog of) 6 whence Arabic سَاجُورٌ 6 (as loan-word), Frä 114 PräBAS i. 372);—וַיִּתְּגֻהוּ בַסּוּגַר Ez 19:9 and they put him into a cage.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: cage (1).

## In the verses

[Ezekiel 19:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.19.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.19.9/#tree)

וַֽיִּתְּנֻ֤הוּ בַסּוּגַר֙ בַּֽחַחִ֔ים וַיְבִאֻ֖הוּ אֶל־מֶ֣לֶךְ בָּבֶ֑ל יְבִאֻ֙הוּ֙ בַּמְּצֹד֔וֹת לְמַ֗עַן לֹא־יִשָּׁמַ֥ע קוֹל֛וֹ ע֖וֹד אֶל־הָרֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃פ

*Word for word:* and they put.it in (the) cage with (the) hooks and they brought.it to the.king of.Babylon they brought.it in (the) strongholds so.that not it.may.be.heard voice its again to the.mountains of.Israel

*JPS 1917:* And they put him in a cage with hooks, and brought him to the king of Babylon; that they might bring him into strongholds, so that his voice should no more be heard upon the mountains of Israel.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5474.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5474/): 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).