Lexicon agan: to shut oneself in or off Original Word: עָגַןPart of Speech: Verb Transliteration: agan Phonetic Spelling: (aw-gan') Short Definition: refrain NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Origina prim. root Definitionto shut oneself in or off NASB Translationrefrain (1).
Brown-Driver-Briggs [ עָגַן] verb Niph`al shut oneself in or off (Late Hebrew id., Passive participle restrained (especially from marriage), also עוֺגִין anchor; ᵑ7 עֲגַן be imprisoned); — Imperfect2feminine plural תֵּעָגֵ֫נָה לְבִלְתִּי הֱיוֺת לְאִישׁ Ruth 1:13 would ye shut yourselves off, so as not to belong to a man ? עגר (√ of following, meaning dubious; conjectures in MeierWurzel WB 38 LagBN 59; on Greek ἀγορ compare LewyFremdw. 8).
Strong's stay A primitive root; to debar, i.e. From marriage -- stay. |
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