1. מגן
to shield, protect
The corpus record — Hebrew
מָגֵ֣ן
magen
to shield, protect
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Distribution
- Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) 63 · 2.05/10k
Senses
2. מָגֵן
shield
3. מָגֵן
a shield (i.e. the small one or buckler); figuratively, a protector; also the scaly hide of the crocodile
Attestations
- מָגֵ֣ן Genesis 15:1 (BHS)
- מָגֵ֣ן Deuteronomy 33:29 (BHS)
- מָגֵ֤ן Judges 5:8 (BHS)
- מָגֵ֣ן 2 Samuel 1:21 (BHS)
- מָגֵ֣ן 2 Samuel 1:21 (BHS)
- מָגִנִּ֞/י 2 Samuel 22:3 (BHS)
6 of 63 attestations shown.
Deep etymology
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Hebrew text from the Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology and lemmatization from the OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible (OSHB), CC BY 4.0. Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB) lexicon, public domain.