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עָגַן

a.gan

to refrain

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Strong’s H5702Verb1 time in the Hebrew Bible

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Translated as

will you shut yourselves off1

In the text

Ruth 1:13תֵּעָגֵנָה
would you wait for them to grow up? Would you refrain from having husbands? No, my daughters, it is much more bitter for me than for you, because the hand of the LORD has gone out against me.”

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[עָגַן] vb. Niph. shut oneself in or off;—Ru 1:13

Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.