Lexical Definition

‎אַגָּן‎ ʼaggân (ag-gawn') vessel ^H:N-M
probably from ‎נָגַן‎

basin, cup, goblet.

• a bowl (as pounded out hollow)

1) bowl, basins
1a) basins used in ritual
1b) human body (metaph), curves of the body (simile)
1c) of family of Eliakim (metaph)

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[‎אַגָּן‎] noun [masculine] bowl, basin (Talmud ‎אוֺגָן‎, Aramaic ‎אַגָּנָא‎, ; Arabic , vessel in which clothes are washed; Assyrian (plural) aganât¢ Dl^W).

1. basins used in ritual ‎אֲגָנֹת‎ Exod 24:6 (E).

2. ‎אַגַּן הַסַּהַר‎, simile of curves of body Song 7:3*.

3. metaphor of family of Eliakim. ‎כְּלֵי הָאַגָּנוֺת‎ = basin-vessels Isa 22:24 (= bowl-shaped vessels Che) opposed to ‎כְּלֵי‎ ‎הַנְּכָלִים‎; both || ‎כְּלֵי הַקָּטָן‎.

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