עָגַן
to shut up
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.
Stem
- Niphal
- Usually the simple passive or reflexive of the Qal (“he was written”).
Form
- Imperfect
- An incomplete, ongoing, or future action (“he will / would write”).
Person
- 2nd Person
- The one addressed (“you”).
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Every verse where H5702 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.
Ruth 1 verse
About this entry
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עגן — transliterated ʻâgan — is a Hebrew verb carrying the sense “to shut up.” It is rare — just 1 verse in the entire Hebrew Bible. More than three-quarters of its appearances fall in Ruth. A true hapax — its single appearance is Ruth 1:13. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H5702 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
- Ruth 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.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 1 verse · 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: Would ye stay 1×
- American Standard Version: Would ye therefore stay 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Would you refrain 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Keep yourselves 1×, Would you 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H5702 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H5702 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H5702 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H5702 across 2 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.
- (Niphal) to shut oneself in or off or up
Word origin
[ עָגַן ] vb. Niph. shut oneself in or off;— Ru 1:13
— 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.
עָגַן
- v. עָגַם) to bend; to tie.—V. עוֹגֵין.—Part. pass. f. עֲגוּנָה tied to an absent husband, deserted wife. Y. Gitt. IV, beg. 45ᶜ שלא תהא יושבת ע׳ that she may not remain a deserted wife (prevented from marrying again); a. fr.—Pl. עֲגוּנוֹת. Ruth R. to I, 13 (ref. to תעגנה, ib.) יכולות … יושבות ע׳ לבלתי וכ׳ can you afford to sit tied, so as not to get married? Gitt. 33ᵃ, a. fr. מפני תקנת ע׳ as a measure in favor of deserted wives (that they may be enabled to marry again). Lev. R. s. 20 הרבה נשים היו יושבות ע׳ ממתינות להם many women (to whom they had made love) remained unmarried, waiting for them (to propose); Tanḥ. Aḥăré 6; a. e.—Trnsf. (of animals in the stable) left lonely. Tosef. B. Kam. VIII, 12 מהו לגדל בהמה … מקיימין את הע׳ שלשים יום how about rearing (for consumption, v. B. Kam. 80ᵃ) small cattle in Palestine?… That which remains last (after the others have been disposed of) should be kept (no more than) thirty days; B. Kam. 80ᵃ ובלבד שלא ישהה הע׳ שבהן שלשים יום (Tosef. l. c. האחרונה) provided he do not keep the last of them over thirty days.
- to press against; to smooth. Tosef. Ter. X, 4 מְעַגֶּנֶת שערה בשערה Var. ed. Zuck. (ed. Zuck. מְעַנֶּגֶת, v. עָנַג; oth. ed. מְעַגֶּלֶת, v. עָגַל) she may smooth her own hair by rubbing it against her (the priest’s daughter’s) hair.
עֲגַן
- , to press, tie; to seclude, imprison. Targ. Is. XXIV, 22 וִיעַגְנוּנוּן וכ׳ and they shall press them into the prison house (ed. Lag. ויגונונון, ed. Ven. ויגינונון, contr. of ויַעְגִּינוּ׳ Af.(?); Ar. ויִעַגְּנוּן Ithpa.; h. text סֻגְּרוּ).—Part. pass. עָגִין; pl. עֲגִינִין. Ib. XLII, 7. Ib. 22, v. next w. Ib. XLIX, 9.
- to make lonely, desert (a wife). Gitt. 26ᵇ ומְעַגַּן ומותיב לה he might desert her.
- to be secluded, tied up; (of a woman) to be prevented from marrying, be an עֲגוּנָה. B. Mets. 19ᵃ משום דלא תִתְעַגֵּן ותתיב הוא Ms. M. (ed. תעגין, corr. acc.) it was done in order that she might not remain a widow in life.
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.
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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