סָגַד
to prostrate
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
- Preposition
- A relational word (e.g. “in,” “to,” “from”) governing a noun.
Stem
- Qal
- The basic, simple active stem — the plain form of the verb (“he wrote”).
Form
- Imperfect
- An incomplete, ongoing, or future action (“he will / would write”).
- Sequential Imperfect
- An imperfect with prefixed waw — the standard past-narrative form (waw-consecutive imperfect).
Person
- 3rd Person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
- 1st Person
- The speaker (“I / we”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Common
- Either gender — not distinguished for this form.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Grammatical forms
- Verb, Qal, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular 2 times (33%)
- Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular 1 time (17%)
- Preposition 1 time (17%)
- Verb, Qal, Imperfect, 1st Person, Common, Singular 1 time (17%)
- Verb, Qal, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural 1 time (17%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 6 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H5456 appears — 4 distinct verses across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Isaiah 4 verses
- Isaiah 44:15 וַ/יִּסְגָּד conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Then shall it be for a man to burn; and he takes of it, and warms himself; yes, he kindles it, and bakes bread: yes, he makes a god, and worships it; he makes it an engraved image, and falls down to it.
- Isaiah 44:17 יסגוד יִסְגָּד ל֤/וֹ Qal impf 3ms Qal impf 3ms prep + sfx pers 3ms The residue of it he makes a god, even his engraved image; he falls down to it and worships, and prays to it, and says, Deliver me; for you are my god.
- Isaiah 44:19 אֶסְגּֽוֹד Qal impf 1cs None calls to mind, neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say, I have burned part of it in the fire; yes, also I have baked bread on the coals of it; I have roasted flesh and eaten it: and shall I make the residue of it an abomination? shall I fall down to the stock of a tree?
- Isaiah 46:6 יִסְגְּד֖וּ Qal impf 3mp Some pour out gold from the bag, and weigh silver in the balance. They hire a goldsmith, and he makes it a god. They fall down--yes, they worship.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
סגד (çâgad) is a Hebrew verb most often rendered “to prostrate.” A scarce word — 4 verses in all of the Hebrew Bible. Isaiah dominates its distribution — 4 of 4 verses. Debuting at Isaiah 44:15, it then recurs through the corpus. Related forms include סגד. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H5456 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 4
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 4 distinct verses.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #3,040
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 3,040 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 4 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Isaiah 4 verses 100%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 4 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 4 verses · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Falleth down 1×, He falleth down 1×, Shall i fall down 1×
- American Standard Version: Falleth down thereto 1×, He falleth down 1×, Shall i fall down 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Bows down 1×, He bows down to it 1×, Shall i bow down 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: And 1×, He prostrates 1×, Himself 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H5456 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H5456 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H5456 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H5456 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- (Qal) to prostrate oneself (in worship)
Word origin
[ סָגַד ] vb. prostrate oneself in worship
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Origin: a primitive root
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
סְגַד
- to bend, bow; to worship. Targ. Gen. XXIV, 26. Targ. O. ib. XXVII, 7; a. fr.—Part. סָגֵיד, pl. סְגִידִין. Targ. II Esth. III, 2; a. e.—Gen. R. s. 38, end ווי ליה … ובעי למִסְגַּד לבר יומיה woe to that man who is sixty years old and wants to bow to an idol made to-day!; Yalk. ib. 62 למִסְגֹּור להדין דעביד יומא דין. Ib. נִסְגֹּוד לנורא … נסגוד וכ׳ let us worship the fire; said he to him, let us worship the water which extinguishes the fire. Cant. R. to II, 5 מִסְגֵּיד, v. פְּחִיתָא; a. fr.—Ḥull. 62ᵇ סָגֵיד, v. זָגֵיד.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 6 distinct written forms H5456 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that stem’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| אֶסְגּֽוֹד | Verb, Qal, Imperfect, 1st Person, Common, Singular | Isaiah 44:19 | 1 |
| וַ/יִּסְגָּד | Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular | Isaiah 44:15 | 1 |
| יִסְגְּד֖וּ | Verb, Qal, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural | Isaiah 46:6 | 1 |
| יִסְגָּד | Verb, Qal, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular | Isaiah 44:17 | 1 |
| יסגוד | Verb, Qal, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular | Isaiah 44:17 | 1 |
| ל֤/וֹ | Preposition | Isaiah 44:17 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H5456, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 4 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 4 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
