- מַסְגֵּר
- מַסְגֵּרm. (b. h.; סָגַר) 1) enclosure. Ex. R. s. 15 ונעל המ׳ בפניה he locked the enclosure up before it (the cattle). Y.B. Kam.V, 4d bot.; ib. VI, 5b bot. (in Chald. diction) דאית לה מ׳ (not ליה) when it (the stack of grain) has an enclosure around it. 2) locksmith; (allegorically) scholar. Snh.38a; Gitt.88a; v. סָגַר.
Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature. Jastrow, Marcus. 1903.