Quick Definition
to refrain
Strong's Definition
to debar, i.e. from marriage
Derivation: a primitive root;
KJV Usage: stay.
TWOT Reference: 1562
Outline of Biblical Usage
1) (Niphal) to shut oneself in or off or up
Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents
This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
עָגַן (a.gan) — to refrain. (Niphal) to shut oneself in or off or up
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
verb
Dissociate | verb nif
to keep apart, to refrain from (marrying) literally: to be locked up or lock oneself up; hence: = action by which humans keep themselves apart from what is considered a normal social life by being unwilling to (re)marry
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
[עָגַן] vb. Niph. shut oneself in or off;—Ru 1:13 ref