Original Language Studio
Ecclesiastes 12:4
“And the doors shall be shut in the streets, when the sound of the grinding is low, and he shall rise up at the voice of the bird, and all the daughters of musick shall be brought low;” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
H5462 · Hebrew
- Definition
- to shut up; figuratively, to surrender
- Derivation
- a primitive root;
- KJV renderings
- close up, deliver (up), give over (up), inclose, [idiom] pure, repair, shut (in, self, out, up, up together), stop, [idiom] straitly.
- Grammar
- וְ — conjunction
- סֻגְּר֤וּ — verb Pual, sequential perfect, 3rd person, common, plural
- Usage
- Occurs 91 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 2:21Genesis 7:16Genesis 19:6Genesis 19:10Exodus 14:3
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read סָגַר here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.