Aramaic word · H5463

סְגַר

usagar

to shut

A Biblical Aramaic word, from the parts of the Old Testament written in Aramaic. Why Aramaic?

Appears once in the Aramaic of the Old Testament. ·

What it means

1) (P'al) to shut

2) (TWOT) shirt

Abridged from Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), via STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0).

Where it appears

Daniel · 1

  1. Daniel 6:22 וּֽסֲגַ֛ר and he closed

    My God sent His angel and shut the mouths of the lions. They have not hurt me, for I was found innocent in His sight, and I have done no wrong against you, O king.”

    Here: 'And shut.' The usual verb for closing a door or gate. The lions' mouths are pictured as an opening that was shut, just as the den itself had been closed with a stone and sealed (6:17).

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