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title: סוּגַר — cage · The Tanakh dictionary
description: סוּגַר (5474), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: cage. BDB 1906: cage, prison. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# סוּגַר

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«סוּגַר» in the Tanakh dictionary: **cage** — 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:** 5474 · **BDB:** סוּגַר

### Glosses

cage (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

cage [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5474/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

cage, prison [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5474/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] cage, prison (poss. loan-word from Assyrian šigaru, cage (BaNB 22); NH סוּגָר 6 or chain = Syriac ܣܽܘܓܳܪܳܐ (clog of) 6 whence Arabic سَاجُورٌ 6 (as loan-word), Frä 114 PräBAS i. 372);—וַיִּתְּגֻהוּ בַסּוּגַר Ez 19:9 and they put him into a cage.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «סוּגַר» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5474/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Ezekiel 19:9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.19.9/)

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וַֽיִּתְּנֻ֤הוּ בַסּוּגַר֙ בַּֽחַחִ֔ים וַיְבִאֻ֖הוּ אֶל־מֶ֣לֶךְ בָּבֶ֑ל יְבִאֻ֙הוּ֙ בַּמְּצֹד֔וֹת לְמַ֗עַן לֹא־יִשָּׁמַ֥ע קוֹל֛וֹ ע֖וֹד אֶל־הָרֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃פ

*Word for word:* and they put.it in (the) cage with (the) hooks and they brought.it to the.king of.Babylon they brought.it in (the) strongholds so.that not it.may.be.heard voice its again to the.mountains of.Israel

*JPS 1917:* And they put him in a cage with hooks, and brought him to the king of Babylon; that they might bring him into strongholds, so that his voice should no more be heard upon the mountains of Israel.

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