סְגֻלָּהçᵉgullâh
possession, property
Pronunciation: seg-ool-law' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H5459
Meanings
1. valued property, peculiar treasure (Exodus 19:5; Titus 2:14; 1 Peter 2:9)
2. treasure (1 Chronicles 29:3; Ecclesiastes 2:8)
Where it appears
Appears 8 times in the Bible.
- Exodus 19:5 Now if you will obey me and keep my covenant, you will be my own special treasure from among all the peoples on earth; for all the earth belongs to me.
- Deuteronomy 7:6 For you are a holy people, who belong to the Lord your God. Of all the people on earth, the Lord your God has chosen you to be his own special treasure.
- Deuteronomy 14:2 You have been set apart as holy to the Lord your God, and he has chosen you from all the nations of the earth to be his own special treasure.
- Deuteronomy 26:18 The Lord has declared today that you are his people, his own special treasure, just as he promised, and that you must obey all his commands.
- 1 Chronicles 29:3 “And now, because of my devotion to the Temple of my God, I am giving all of my own private treasures of gold and silver to help in the construction. This is in addition to the building materials I have already collected for his holy Temple.
- Psalms 135:4 For the Lord has chosen Jacob for himself, Israel for his own special treasure.
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).