5702. agan
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agan: to shut oneself in or off
Original Word: עָגַן
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: agan
Phonetic Spelling: (aw-gan')
Short Definition: refrain

NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origin
a prim. root
Definition
to shut oneself in or off
NASB Translation
refrain (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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