סְגוֹר
segor · treasured gold, breast
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H5458 · appears 2 times in the Bible
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segor (סְגוֹר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “treasured gold, breast”.
Treasured gold, gold kept safe. Elsewhere, the breast that encloses the heart.
How to say it
se·gor
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
- What encloses the heart, like a casing.
- The purest precious metal, kept under lock.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- Fine gold ×1
- covering ×1
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Comes from
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Job 28:15
Fine gold cannot be given in exchange for it, nor can silver be weighed as its price.
- Hosea 13:8
I will meet them like a bear robbed of her cubs, and I will tear open the covering of their heart, and there I will devour them like a lioness; the animal of the field will rip them apart.