Biblical Hebrew

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hebrew #5702 - עָגַן agan (to shut oneself in or off)


Original Word:עָגַן
Transliteration: agan
Definition:to shut oneself in or off
Part of Speech:Verb
Phonetic Spelling:(aw-gan')
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

stay

A primitive root; to debar, i.e. From marriage -- stay.


Englishman's Concordance

1) (Niphal) to shut oneself in or off or up
Part of Speech: verb
A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: a primitive root
Same Word by TWOT Number: 1562

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[עָגַן] verb Niph`alshut oneself in or off (Late Hebrew id., Passive participle restrained (especially from marriage), also עוֺגִיןanchor; ᵑ7עֲגַןbe imprisoned); — Imperfect2feminine plural תֵּעָגֵ֫נָה לְבִלְתִּי הֱיוֺת לְאִישׁRuth 1:13would ye shut yourselves off, so as not to belong to a man ?

עגר (√ of following, meaning dubious; conjectures in MeierWurzel WB 38 LagBN 59; on Greek ἀγορ compare LewyFremdw. 8).


Englishman's Concordance (References)

Strong's Hebrew: 5702. עָגַן (agan) — 1 Occurrence

Ruth 1:13
HEB:יִגְדָּ֔לוּ הֲלָהֵן֙ תֵּֽעָגֵ֔נָה לְבִלְתִּ֖י הֱי֣וֹת
NAS: Would you therefore refrain from marrying?
KJV: till they were grown? would ye stay for them
INT: grown therefore refrain because become

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