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H4042 מָגַן (mâgan) maw-gan'
Hebrew
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Strong's Definition

a denominative from 4043; properly, to shield; encompass with; figuratively, to rescue, to hand safely over (i.e. surrender)

KJV Usage: deliver

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

מָגַן (ma.gan) — to deliver. (Piel) to deliver up, give, deliver

UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew

verb · מְגִנָּה

Non-Possess | verb pi | ≈ נתן

to give = action by which humans transfer possession of something to someone else

PRO 4:9

Control | verb pi

Collocation: מגן בְּיָד

to deliver, to hand over literally: to give (someone) in the hand (of someone else); = causative action by which deities cause humans to gain control over other humans

GEN 14:20

Unfaithful | verb pi

to give up, to hand over, to abandon literally: to give (up); hence: = action by which deities suspend their commitment to humans, either temporarily or permanently

HOS 11:8

Reinier de Blois

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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

[מָגַן] vb. only Pi. deliver up, deliver (denom. fr. מָגֵן) base

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