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

A primitive root; to debar, i.e. From marriage -- stay.

Forms and Transliterations
תֵּֽעָגֵ֔נָה תעגנה tê‘āḡênāh tê·‘ā·ḡê·nāh teaGenah
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Strong's Hebrew 5702
1 Occurrence


tê·‘ā·ḡê·nāh — 1 Occ.

Ruth 1:13
HEB: יִגְדָּ֔לוּ הֲלָהֵן֙ תֵּֽעָגֵ֔נָה לְבִלְתִּ֖י הֱי֣וֹת
NAS: Would you therefore refrain from marrying?
KJV: till they were grown? would ye stay for them
INT: grown therefore refrain because become

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