Hebrew noun (feminine) · H5459
סְגֻלָּה
segullahseg-ool-law'
possession
8 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: çᵉgullâh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H5459is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 6 of 39Old Testament books
- 6spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H5459
wealth (as closely shut up)
The King James renders it: jewel, peculiar (treasure), proper good, special.
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
segullah is rendered "possession". It stands 8 times in the Hebrew text, across six books.
- Three of the uses stand in Deuteronomy, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Exodus 19:5Now if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, you will be My treasured possession out of all the nations—for the whole earth is Mine.
- The Greek text spells it six different ways.
The first use
Now if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, you will be My treasured possession out of all the nations—for the whole earth is Mine.
Exodus 19:5סְגֻלָּה֙
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Three of the word's eight uses are in Deuteronomy.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- possession3
- a possession2
- and treasure of1
- to possession his1
- treasure1
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 8, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
6 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
- סְגֻלָּ֔ה3
- וּסְגֻלַּ֥ת1
- לִסְגֻלָּתֽוֹ׃1
- סְגֻלָּה֙1
- סְגֻלָּ֖ה1
- סְגֻלָּ֑ה1
The grammar of each form
- noun · feminine singular6HNcfsa
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HC/Ncfsc
- preposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1HR/Ncfsc/Sp3ms
Exodus
one use
Now if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, you will be My treasured possession out of all the nations—for the whole earth is Mine.
- סְגֻלָּה֙segulahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a possession
Deuteronomy
three uses
For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for His prized possession out of all peoples on the face of the earth.
- סְגֻלָּ֔הsegulahnoun · feminine singulartagged: possession
for you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD has chosen you to be a people for His prized possession out of all the peoples on the face of the earth.
- סְגֻלָּ֔הsegulahnoun · feminine singulartagged: possession
And today the LORD has proclaimed that you are His people and treasured possession as He promised, that you are to keep all His commandments,
- סְגֻלָּ֔הsegulahnoun · feminine singulartagged: possession
1 Chronicles
one use
Moreover, because of my delight in the house of my God, I now give for it my personal treasures of gold and silver, over and above all that I have provided for this holy temple:
- סְגֻלָּ֖הsegulahnoun · feminine singulartagged: treasure
Psalms
one use
For the LORD has chosen Jacob as His own, Israel as His treasured possession.
- לִסְגֻלָּתֽוֹ׃lisgulatopreposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: to possession his
Ecclesiastes
one use
and I accumulated for myself silver and gold and the treasure of kings and provinces. I gathered to myself male and female singers, and the delights of the sons of men—many concubines.
- וּסְגֻלַּ֥תusegulatconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and treasure of
Malachi
one use
“They will be Mine,” says the LORD of Hosts, “on the day when I prepare My treasured possession. And I will spare them as a man spares his own son who serves him.
- סְגֻלָּ֑הsegulahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a possession
Where it leads
Studies that open this word1
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 words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.