סוּגַר
cage
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H5474 appears — 1 distinct verse 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.
Ezekiel 1 verse
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.
סוגר (çûwgar) is a Hebrew noun most often rendered “cage.” It is rare — just 1 verse in the entire Hebrew Bible. Ezekiel dominates its distribution — 1 of 1 verses. Its lone occurrence is Ezekiel 19:9. Related forms include סגר, מסגר and מסגרת. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H5474 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 →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #6,101
- by frequency
- Rank #6,101 (rank 6,101 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Ezekiel 1 verse 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 1 distinct verse.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 1 verse · 100%
How translations render this word
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- King James Version: Ward 1×
- American Standard Version: Cage 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: not separately translated
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Cage 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H5474 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H5474 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Does not render H5474 with a distinct English word (not separately translated in its 1 tagged occurrence).
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H5474 across 1 tagged occurrence — 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.
- cage, prison, cage with hooks
Word origin
סוּגַר n.[m.] cage, prison;— Ez 19:9
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from סגר (çâgar) (H5462) — to shut.
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.
סָגַר
- (b. h.) to bar, bolt; to lock up, close. Snh. 38ᵃ (ref. to מסגר, II Kings XXIV, 16) כיון שסוֹגְרִין הלכה וכ׳ after they had closed the discussion about a law (declared it obscure), there was none to open again; Gitt. 88ᵃ; Sifré Deut. 321 אהר שפותח אין סוֹגֵר after he has opened (explained), none can close (raise objection). Tanḥ. Sh’mini 9 עבר על כל בתי … וס׳ אותם he passed over all synagogues and schools and closed them. Mekh. B’shall., s. 3 הים סוגר ושונא רודף וכ׳ the sea forming a bar, and the enemy pursuing &c.; Ex. R. s. 21 (not סגר). Mekh. Yithro, Amal., s. 1 מתחלה … שהיתה סוֹגֶרֶת ומְסוּגֶּרֶת וכ׳ formerly no slave could flee from Egypt, for it was shut up and barred (Josh. VI, 1); a. fr.—Cant. R. to III, 10 (expl. זהב סָגוּר) שהיה סוֹגר בעד כל וכ׳ it locked up the shops of all workers in gold (ruined their trade); Y. Yoma IV, 41ᵈ top מכסיף (corr. acc.); Num. R. s. 12 (not סגור); Ex. R. s. 35 שהיה סגור כל וכ׳ (corr. acc.). e.g. 2 Kings 24:16
- to be locked up. Yoma 45ᵃ כל החנויות נִסְגָּרוֹת all (gold) shops were closed (their business ruined, v. supra); a. e.
- to lock up; to bind over, hand over, deliver. Sifré Deut. 322 בקשו ישראל לברוח … היו מַסְגִּירִים אותם when the Israelites attempted to flee northward, they blocked their way. Ib. 323 (ref. to Deut. XXXII, 30) איני מַסְגִּיר אתכם ע"י עצמי וכ׳ I shall not deliver you (into the hands of the enemy) directly, but through others (who will betray you). Ib. מוכרני מיד ומַסְגִּירַנִי מיד I sell and immediately deliver you. Tanḥ. Sh’mini l. c. (ref. to המסגר, v. supra) שכל או"ה … שהן מַסְגִּירִין לכל האומות all nations go before them into enclosures and flee, for they cause all nations to lock themselves up; a. fr.—Esp. to lock up the leper pending the priest’s observation (Lev. XIII, 4, a. e.). Neg. V, 1; a. fr.—Part. pass. מוּסְגָּר a leper under trial, opp. מוחלט (v. חָלַט I). Meg. I, 7; a. fr. e.g. Deuteronomy 32:30
- to be closed, locked. Part. מְסוּגָּר, f. מְסוּגֶּרֶת, v. supra.
סוּגַר
- collar or muzzle. Sabb. 51ᵇ. Y. ib. V, end, 7ᶜ; Y. Bets. II, end, 61ᵈ, v. חָכָה.
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.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H5474, 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.
Derives from
Shares the same root
- מסגר maçgêr H4525 enclosure
- מסגרת miçgereth H4526 border
- סגור çᵉgôwr H5458 fine gold
- סגר çᵉgar H5463 to shut
- סגריד çagrîyd H5464 steady rain
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 7 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 1 verse that also exists in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 1 Hebrew verse it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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