סָגַר
sagar · shut, shut in
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H5462 · appears 91 times in the Bible
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Strong’s number identifies this word: use it to find the same word in other study tools.What it means
sagar (סָגַר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “shut, shut in”.
Shut, close. Also shut someone in, isolate for some days; hand over to an enemy.
How to say it
sa·gar
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
- To bolt a door, or leave someone shut in with no way out.
- To keep someone apart for days for leprosy.
- To leave a person or a people in the power of an enemy.
- "Closed gold": unmixed gold.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
Word study
To shut, close; from there, to shut in, isolate, and hand someone over into another's hand. BDB: to shut up; figuratively, to surrender, deliver up. ‘Shut-up gold’ is fine, pure gold.
- Shutting: Noah's ark, a city Genesis 7:16Joshua 6:1
- Isolating someone seven days Leviticus 13:4Numbers 12:14
- Handing over into another's hand 1 Samuel 23:12Psalms 31:8
- “He will shut, and no one will open” Isaiah 22:22
- Fine gold 1 Kings 6:20
How we translate it
“Shut” 37 times, “closed” 8; “shall isolate” 7 and “isolate” 3 in the laws on sores (Leviticus 13:4); “deliver” 3, “hand over” 3, “handed over” 3 and “he gave over” 3 when the verb is handing someone over (“Will the lords of Keilah deliver me”, 1 Samuel 23:12); “fine” 8 with gold (1 Kings 6:20).
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- shut ×37
- closed ×8
- fine ×8
- shall isolate ×7
- deliver ×3
- hand over ×3
- handed over ×3
- he gave over ×3
- isolate ×3
- deliver me ×2
- others ×14
Related words
Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Genesis×4
- Exodus×1
- Leviticus×11
- Numbers×2
- Deuteronomy×2
- Joshua×5
- Judges×3
- 1 Samuel×11
- 2 Samuel×1
- 1 Kings×6
- 2 Kings×5
- 2 Chronicles×5
- Nehemiah×2
- Job×5
- Psalms×6
- Ecclesiastes×1
- Isaiah×7
- Jeremiah×1
- Lamentations×1
- Ezekiel×7
- Amos×3
- Obadiah×1
- Malachi×1
- Genesis 2:21
And YHWH Elohim caused a deep sleep to fall on the man, and he slept; and he took one of his sides and closed up the flesh in its place.
- Genesis 7:16
And those that came, male and female of all flesh, came as Elohim had commanded him; and YHWH shut the door behind him.
- Genesis 19:6
Lot went out to them at the entrance, and shut the door behind him,
- Genesis 19:10
But the men reached out their hands and brought Lot into the house with them, and shut the door.
- Exodus 14:3
Pharaoh will say of the sons of Israel, ‘They are wandering aimlessly in the land; the wilderness has closed in on them.’
- Leviticus 13:4
But if the bright spot is white on the skin of his body and its appearance is not deeper than the skin, and its hair has not turned white, the priest shall isolate the one with the sore seven days.
- Leviticus 13:5
The priest shall examine him on the seventh day, and if the sore has stayed as it was in his eyes and the sore has not spread in the skin, the priest shall isolate him seven days a second time.
- Leviticus 13:11
it is a chronic leprosy in the skin of his body, and the priest shall declare him unclean; he shall not isolate him, for he is unclean.
- Leviticus 13:21
But if the priest examines it and, look, there is no white hair in it and it is not lower than the skin but it has faded, the priest shall isolate him seven days.
- Leviticus 13:26
But if the priest examines it and, look, there is no white hair in the bright spot and it is not lower than the skin but it has faded, the priest shall isolate him seven days.
- Leviticus 13:31
But if the priest examines the sore of ringworm and, look, its appearance is not deeper than the skin and there is no black hair in it, the priest shall isolate the one with the sore of ringworm seven days.
- Leviticus 13:33
he shall shave himself, but the ringworm he shall not shave; and the priest shall isolate the one with the ringworm seven days a second time.
- Leviticus 13:50
The priest shall examine the mark and isolate the article with the mark seven days.
- Leviticus 13:54
the priest shall command that they wash that in which the mark is, and he shall isolate it seven days a second time.
- Leviticus 14:38
the priest shall go out of the house to the entrance of the house and isolate the house seven days.
- Leviticus 14:46
And whoever enters the house during all the days that he has isolated it will be unclean until the evening.
- Numbers 12:14
And YHWH said to Moses, “If her father had but spit in her face, would she not be ashamed seven days? Let her be isolated seven days outside the camp, and afterward she may be gathered in.”
- Numbers 12:15
So Miriam was isolated outside the camp seven days, and the people did not set out until Miriam was gathered in.
- Deuteronomy 23:15
You shall not hand over to his master a slave who has escaped to you from his master.
- Deuteronomy 32:30
How could one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, and YHWH had handed them over?
- Joshua 2:5
When the gate was about to be shut at dark, the men went out. I do not know where the men went. Pursue them quickly, for you will overtake them.”
- Joshua 2:7
So the men pursued them by the way to the Jordan as far as the fords, and they shut the gate after the pursuers had gone out after them.
- Joshua 6:1
Now Jericho was shut up and tightly shut because of the sons of Israel; no one went out and no one came in.
- Joshua 20:5
And if the avenger of blood pursues him, they shall not hand over the manslayer into his hand, because he struck his neighbor unknowingly, and did not hate him beforehand.
- Judges 3:22
The hilt also went in after the blade, and the fat closed over the blade, for he did not pull the sword out of his belly; and the excrement came out.
- Judges 3:23
Ehud went out to the porch, closed the doors of the upper room behind him, and locked them.
- Judges 9:51
There was a strong tower in the middle of the city, and all the men and the women and all the lords of the city fled there; they shut it behind them and went up on the roof of the tower.
- 1 Samuel 1:5
but to Hannah he would give a double portion, for he loved Hannah, though YHWH had closed her womb.
- 1 Samuel 1:6
And her rival would provoke her bitterly in order to irritate her, because YHWH had closed up her womb.
- 1 Samuel 17:46
This day YHWH will hand you over into my hand, and I will strike you and remove your head from you; and I will give the corpses of the camp of the Philistines this day to the birds of the sky and to the animals of the earth, and all the earth will know that Israel has Elohim.
- 1 Samuel 23:7
It was told Saul that David had come to Keilah. And Saul said, “Elohim has delivered him into my hand, for he has shut himself in by entering a town with gates and bar.”
- 1 Samuel 23:11
Will the lords of Keilah deliver me into his hand? Will Saul come down, as your servant has heard? YHWH, Elohim of Israel, tell, please, your servant.” YHWH said, “He will come down.”
- 1 Samuel 23:12
David said, “Will the lords of Keilah deliver me and my men into the hand of Saul?” YHWH said, “They will deliver you.”
- 1 Samuel 23:20
Now, according to all the desire of your soul, O king, to come down, come down; and our part will be to deliver him into the hand of the king.”
- 1 Samuel 24:18
You have made known today how you have dealt well with me, in that YHWH delivered me into your hand, and you did not kill me.
- 1 Samuel 26:8
Abishai said to David, “Elohim has delivered your enemy into your hand today. Now please let me strike him with the spear to the ground with one stroke, and I will not strike him twice.”
- 1 Samuel 30:15
David said to him, “Will you bring me down to this band?” He said, “Swear to me by Elohim that you will not kill me and that you will not deliver me into the hand of my master, and I will bring you down to this band.”
- 2 Samuel 18:28
Ahimaaz called out and said to the king, “Peace!” And he bowed down to the king with his face to the ground, and said, “Blessed be YHWH your Elohim, who has delivered up the men who lifted their hand against my lord the king.”
- 1 Kings 6:20
And the inner sanctuary was twenty cubits long, and twenty cubits wide, and twenty cubits its height; and he overlaid it with fine gold; and he overlaid an altar of cedar.
- 1 Kings 6:21
And Solomon overlaid the house on the inside with fine gold; and he drew chains of gold across the front of the inner sanctuary and overlaid it with gold.
And 51 more times.