Hebrew noun (masculine) · H4525
מַסְגֵּר
masgermas-gare'
locksmith
7 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: maçgêr
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H4525is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 39Old Testament books
- 7spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H4525
a fastener, i.e. (of a person) a smith, (of a thing) a prison
The King James renders it: prison, smith.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
masger is rendered "locksmith". It stands 7 times in the Hebrew text, across four books.
- Two of the uses stand in 2 Kings, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.2 Kings 24:14He carried into exile all Jerusalem—all the commanders and mighty men of valor, all the craftsmen and metalsmiths—ten thousand captives in all. Only the poorest people of the land remained.
- The Greek text spells it seven different ways.
The first use
He carried into exile all Jerusalem—all the commanders and mighty men of valor, all the craftsmen and metalsmiths—ten thousand captives in all. Only the poorest people of the land remained.
2 Kings 24:14וְהַמַּסְגֵּ֑ר
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- and the smith3
- from prison2
- a prison1
- the smith1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 7, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
7 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- הַמַּסְגֵּר֙1
- וְהַמַּסְגֵּ֑ר1
- וְהַמַּסְגֵּר֙1
- וְהַמַּסְגֵּ֖ר1
- מִמַּסְגֵּר֙1
- מִמַּסְגֵּ֨ר׀1
- מַסְגֵּ֑ר1
The grammar of each form
- conjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular3HC/Td/Ncmsa
- preposition + noun · masculine singular2HR/Ncmsa
- noun · masculine singular1HNcmsa
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular1HTd/Ncmsa
2 Kings
two uses
He carried into exile all Jerusalem—all the commanders and mighty men of valor, all the craftsmen and metalsmiths—ten thousand captives in all. Only the poorest people of the land remained.
- וְהַמַּסְגֵּ֑רvehamasgerconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and the smith
The king of Babylon also brought into exile to Babylon all seven thousand men of valor and a thousand craftsmen and metalsmiths—all strong and fit for battle.
- וְהַמַּסְגֵּר֙vehamasgerconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and the smith
Psalms
one use
Free my soul from prison, that I may praise Your name. The righteous will gather around me because of Your goodness to me.
- מִמַּסְגֵּ֨ר׀mimasgerpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: from prison
Isaiah
two uses
They will be gathered together like prisoners in a pit. They will be confined to a dungeon and punished after many days.
- מַסְגֵּ֑רmasgernoun · masculine singulartagged: a prison
to open the eyes of the blind, to bring prisoners out of the dungeon and those sitting in darkness out from the prison house.
- מִמַּסְגֵּר֙mimasgerpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: from prison
Jeremiah
two uses
After Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had carried away Jeconiah son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, as well as the officials of Judah and the craftsmen and metalsmiths from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon, the LORD showed me two baskets of figs placed in front of the temple of the LORD.
- הַמַּסְגֵּר֙hamasgerthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the smith
(This was after King Jeconiah, the queen mother, the court officials, the officials of Judah and Jerusalem, the craftsmen, and the metalsmiths had been exiled from Jerusalem.)
- וְהַמַּסְגֵּ֖רvehamasgerconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and the smith
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.