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סְגֻלָּה

segula · special treasure

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H5459 · appears 8 times in the Bible

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What it means

segula (סְגֻלָּה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “special treasure”.

What someone keeps apart as his most valued possession.

How to say it

se·gu·la

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

  1. What someone keeps apart as their most precious possession.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Where it appears

  • Exodus 19:5

    And now, if you will listen carefully to my voice and keep my covenant, you shall be my special treasure out of all the peoples; for all the earth is mine;

  • Deuteronomy 7:6

    For you are a holy people to YHWH your Elohim; YHWH your Elohim has chosen you to be a people for him, his special treasure, out of all the peoples that are on the face of the ground.

  • Deuteronomy 14:2

    for you are a holy people to YHWH your Elohim, and YHWH has chosen you to be for him a people, his special treasure, out of all the peoples that are on the face of the ground.

  • Deuteronomy 26:18

    And YHWH has declared you today to be his people, his special treasure, as he told you, and that you are to keep all his commandments,

  • 1 Chronicles 29:3

    Moreover, because I take pleasure in the house of my Elohim, I have a special treasure of gold and silver; I give it to the house of my Elohim, over and above all that I have prepared for the holy house:

  • Psalms 135:4

    For Yah has chosen Jacob for himself, Israel as his special treasure.

  • Ecclesiastes 2:8

    I gathered also for myself silver and gold, and the special treasure of kings and of the provinces; I made for myself male singers and female singers, and the delights of human beings, a lady and ladies.

  • Malachi 3:17

    And they will be mine, says YHWH Tsevaot, for the day that I am making, a special treasure; and I will have compassion on them as a man has compassion on his son who serves him.