To shut
סָגַרStrong’s H5462sagar (sa-gar)
Appears in 87 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Sagar is the Hebrew word usually translated “pure gold”, “shut up” and “shut”. It appears in 87 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;”
Meaning
- To shut, close(Qal) · (Niphal) · (Piel) to shut up, deliver up · (Pual) to be shut up · (Hiphil)
- Pure gold
How it's translated
- pure gold 6
- and he will shut up 5
- shut 5
- and he closed 3
- and he will shut up him 3
- he has delivered up 3
- they will deliver up 2
- he had closed 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Leviticus 11
- 1 Samuel 10
- 1 Kings 6
- Psalms 6
- Isaiah 6
- Ezekiel 6
23 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 7:16And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the LORD shut him in.
- Genesis 19:6And Lot went out at the door unto them, and shut the door after him,
- Genesis 19:10But the men put forth their hand, and pulled Lot into the house to them, and shut to the door.
- Exodus 14:3For Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, They are entangled in the land, the wilderness hath shut them in.
- Leviticus 13:4If the bright spot be white in the skin of his flesh, and in sight be not deeper than the skin, and the hair thereof be not turned white; then the priest shall shut up him that hath the plague seven days:
- Leviticus 13:5And the priest shall look on him the seventh day: and, behold, if the plague in his sight be at a stay, and the plague spread not in the skin; then the priest shall shut him up seven days more:
All 87 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
סָגַר sagar · to shut
1) to shut, close 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to shut 1a2) to close, close up 1a3) closed up, closely joined, shut up 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to be shut up 1b2) to be shut or closed 1c) (Piel) to shut up, deliver up 1d) (Pual) to be shut up 1e) (Hiphil) 1e1) to deliver up 1e2) to shut up, imprison 2) pure gold Aramaic equivalent: se.gar (סְגַר "to shut" H5463)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “shut” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SHUT, verb transitive
pretand participle passive shut.
- To close so as to hinder ingress or egress; as, to shut a door or gate; to shut the eyes or the mouth.
- To prohibit; to bar; to forbid entrance into; as, to shut the ports of the kingdom by a blockade.
- To preclude; to exclude.
- To close, as the fingers; to contract; as, to shut the hand.
All definitions and other forms of “shut”
- Spoken of points of land, when by the progress of a ship, one point is brought to cover or intercept the view of another.
- To obstruct.
- To confine; to imprison; to lock or fasten in; as, to shut up a prisoner.
- To confine by legal or moral restraint.“Before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up to the faith, which should afterwards be revealed” Galatians 3:23
- To end; to terminate; to conclude.
SHUT, verb intransitive
To close itself; to be closed. The door shuts of itself; it shuts hard. Certain flowers shut at night and open in the day.
SHUT, participle passive
- Closed; having the entrance barred.
- adjective Rid; clear; free.
SHUT, noun
- Close; the act of closing; as the shut of a door; the shut of evening. [Little used.]
- A small door or cover; But shutter is more generally used.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.