עגן (ˊgn) — to keep apart / to refrain from (marrying)

Form 1

Part of speech: vb

Sense 1: to keep apart, to refrain from (marrying)

Semantic domains: Apart (002003002002)

Core domains: Marriage (105)

Definition: 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

Forms: vbnif-

Valencies: v

Show passage in OET: RUT 1:13

OET-RV RUT 1:13

13 could you wait for them to grow up so you could be remarried? No, my daughters, what’s hard for me, even more than your hardships, is that Yahweh is using his power against me.”

OET-LV RUT 1:13

13 Therefore will _you(pl)_wait until that they _will _grow _up therefore will _you _shut _yourselves _off to_not to _belong to_a _husband no my _daughters _of_my if/because it _is _bitter to_me very more_than _you(pl) if/because it _has _gone _forth on_me the _hand _of YHWH.

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UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew

עגן

Form 1

Sense 1: to keep apart, to refrain from (marrying)