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title: סְגַר — shut · The Biblical Aramaic dictionary
description: סְגַר (lemma:סְגַר), a word of Biblical Aramaic, used 1 times: shut. BDB 1906: vb. shut. With 1 verse in Aramaic, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# סְגַר

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«סְגַר» in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary: **shut** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** lemma:סְגַר · **BDB:** סְגַר

### Glosses

he.closed (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

shut [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1505/lemma_3a_5e1_5b0_5d2_5b7_5e8/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. shut [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1505/lemma_3a_5e1_5b0_5d2_5b7_5e8/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. shut (v. BH);— Pf. 3 ms. ס׳ Dn 6:23 shut the lions’ mouth (acc.).

### Jastrow 1903

סְגַר: fenced in, barred leprous to be locked up, closed to be engrossed with; to be bewildered to become leprous [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1505/lemma_3a_5e1_5b0_5d2_5b7_5e8/#m3)

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**The whole Jastrow entry:** Targ. Job XXXVIII, 8 Var. Ms. (ed. אגיף). Targ. Y. Deut. XXI, 5.—Part. pass. סְגִיר, סְגִירָא a) fenced in, barred. Targ. Cant. I, 9.—b) leprous, v. סְגִיר. same. Targ. Lev. XIII, 4. Ib. XIV, 38; a. fr. to be locked up, closed. Targ. Y. Gen. VIII, 2 (h. text ויסכרו). Targ. O. Num. XII, 14; a. fr.—Trnsf. to be engrossed with; to be bewildered, v. אִסְתַּגַּר. (v. סְגִיר) to become leprous. Targ. II Chr. XXVI, 22.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates); Jastrow: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (6 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «סְגַר» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1505/lemma_3a_5e1_5b0_5d2_5b7_5e8/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Daniel 6:23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.6.23/)

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אֱלָהִ֞י שְׁלַ֣ח מַלְאֲכֵ֗הּ וּֽסֲגַ֛ר פֻּ֥ם אַרְיָוָתָ֖א וְלָ֣א חַבְּל֑וּנִי כָּל־קֳבֵ֗ל דִּ֤י קָֽדָמ֙וֹהִי֙ זָכוּ֙ הִשְׁתְּכַ֣חַת לִ֔י וְאַ֤ף קָֽדָמָךְ֙ מַלְכָּ֔א חֲבוּלָ֖ה לָ֥א עַבְדֵֽת׃

*Word for word:* God my he.sent angel his and he.closed the.mouth of the.lions and not they harmed.me as to because that before him innocence it.was.found to me and also before you O king a.hurtful.act not I.have.done

*JPS 1917:* My God hath sent His angel, and hath shut the lions' mouths, and they have not hurt me; forasmuch as before Him innocency was found in me; and also before thee, O king, have I done no hurt.'

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