סָגַר
çâgar · saw-gar'
to shut up; figuratively, to surrender
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root;
to shut up; figuratively, to surrender
- to shut up
- figuratively, to surrender
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: close up, deliver (up), give over (up), inclose, [idiom] pure, repair, shut (in, self, out, up, up together), stop, [idiom] straitly.
Letters
- סSamekh60
Picture: a prop or pillar
- Concrete
- pillar · prop · thorn
- Extended
- to support · to uphold · to turn around · to be trusted
- גGimel3
Picture: throwing stick (or camel)
- Concrete
- staff · throw stick · camel · foot
- Extended
- to carry · to gather up · walking · pride lifted up
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to support and uphold › to carry, to lift up › the head, the highest
To support and uphold that works to carry, to lift up of the head, the highest.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of סָגַר above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
91 occurrences · 91 OT · 0 NT · 73 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- and shut6 · 13%
- shall shut6 · 13%
- of pure4 · 8%
- deliver3 · 6%
- shall be shut3 · 6%
- were of pure2 · 4%
- over2 · 4%
- hath delivered2 · 4%
- and shut up2 · 4%
- shut2 · 4%
- shall not be shut2 · 4%
- unto them, and shut1 · 2%
- they shut1 · 2%
- to them, and shut1 · 2%
- and it came to pass about the time of shutting1 · 2%
- shut him in1 · 2%
- thou shalt not deliver1 · 2%
- was shut1 · 2%
- let her be shut1 · 2%
- that it is shut1 · 2%
- is, and he shall shut1 · 2%
- had shut them up1 · 2%
- and shall not shut1 · 2%
- hath shut them in1 · 2%
- and closed up1 · 2%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.