Sagar סָגַר

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Sagar
סָגַר
Transliterationsagar
Strong's numberH5462
LanguageHebrew
Part of speechverb
Glossto shut
Occurrences91 in 87 verses
Most frequent inLeviticus (11)

Sagar (Hebrew סָגַר, Strong's H5462) is a Hebrew verb meaning “to shut”. It occurs 91 times in 87 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

1) to shut, close
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to shut
1a2) to close, close up
1a3) closed up, closely joined, shut up
1b) (Niphal)
1b1) to be shut up
1b2) to be shut or closed
1c) (Piel) to shut up, deliver up
1d) (Pual) to be shut up
1e) (Hiphil)
1e1) to deliver up
1e2) to shut up, imprison
2) pure gold
Aramaic equivalent: se.gar (סְגַר "to shut" H5463)

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

KJVshut (40), up (22), pure (8), deliver (6), delivered (3), gave (2), over (2), shutting (1), straitly (1), closed (1), repaired (1), together (1), and 2 other renderings
BSBshut (9), pure (5), be shut (4), shall isolate (3), shall isolate him (2), was shut (2), surrender (2), closed (2), had closed (2), delivered me (2), were pure (2), closed up (1), and 52 other renderings

Verses

Every verse with Sagar, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Genesis

Exodus

Leviticus

Numbers

Deuteronomy

Joshua

Judges

1 Samuel

2 Samuel

1 Kings

2 Kings

2 Chronicles

Nehemiah

Job

Psalms

Ecclesiastes

Isaiah

Jeremiah

Lamentations

Ezekiel

Amos

Obadiah

Malachi

Notes

  1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
  2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).
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