סָגַר

sa.gar · to shut

Hebrew · Strong's H5462 · Verb · Sounds like: saw-gar' · 91 occurrences

Word meanings

Strong's dictionary

a primitive root; to shut up; figuratively, to surrender; close up, deliver (up), give over (up), inclose, [idiom] pure, repair, shut (in, self, out, up, up together), stop, [idiom] straitly.

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (public domain)

Full lexicon entry (Brown-Driver-Briggs)
סָגַר vb. shut, close
Qal
1. shut door
2.
a. close in upon
b. close up breach
3. Pt. pass., closed up = closely joined with tight seal
4. elsewhwere only Pt. pass. (gold shut up, and so prized, rare, fine?)
Niph.
1. subj. pers. be shut up
2. be shut, closed, of city gates
Pi. deliver up to (leave no other opening for one, shut one up to)
Pu.
1. of cities
2. of prisoners
3. of doors
Hiph.
1. deliver up to
2. shut up

Every occurrence

  1. Nehemiah 6:10 וְנִסְגְּרָה֙ ve.nis.ge.Rah · A wish or plan to act: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by us

    And I went unto the house of Shemaiah the son of Delaiah the son of Mehetabel, who was shut up; and he said, Let us meet together in the house of God, within the temple, and let us shut the doors of the temple: for they will come to slay thee; yea, in the night will they come to slay thee.

  2. Nehemiah 13:19 וַיִּסָּגְר֣וּ vai.yi.sa.ge.Ru · An action: receiving the action, and then it happened, done by them

    And it came to pass that, when the gates of Jerusalem began to be dark before the sabbath, I commanded that the doors should be shut, and commanded that they should not be opened till after the sabbath: and some of my servants set I over the gates, that there should no burden be brought in on the sabbath day.

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