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Strong’s Concordance H4043
A readable Hebrew dictionary entry from Strong’s Concordance. Definitions help with word study; the meaning in a verse still depends on context.
Word study
- Source
- Strong’s Concordance
- Transliteration
- magen
- Occurrences
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- Strong’s number
- H4043
- Brief meaning
- From H1598, a shield (i.e. the small one or buckler), figuratively, a protector, also the scaly hide of the crocodile
- Source renderings
- armed, buckler, defence, ruler, + scale, shield
- Root word
- maw-gane' also (in plural) feminine mginnah {meg-in-naw'}
- Full definition from the source
- From H1598; a shield (i.e. the small one or buckler); figuratively, a protector; also the scaly hide of the crocodile. Root word: maw-gane' also (in plural) feminine mginnah {meg-in-naw'}.
- Digital-source-added cross-reference note
- H1598
Source info
Source and edition
James Strong, Strong's Hebrew Bible Dictionary (1890); Bible Foundation text source; Michael Grier's 1996 ASCII e-text; CrossWire module 1.2.
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04043\ 4043 magen maw-gane' also (in plural) feminine mginnah {meg-in-naw'}; from 1598; a shield (i.e. the small one or buckler); figuratively, a protector; also the scaly hide of the crocodile:--X armed, buckler, defence, ruler, + scale, shield. see HEBREW for 01598