Strong’s H4525 · Hebrew

מַסְגֵּר
maçgêr
mas-gare'

Definition

a fastener, i.e. (of a person) a smith, (of a thing) a prison

Etymology

from H5462 (סָגַר);

Where the KJV renders it

  • prison
  • smith

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

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