This noun denotes an enclosure used to confine wild animals or prisoners. Ezekiel employs it in an allegory about Judah's kings, describing how the young lion (representing a king) is captured and placed in a cage. The term likely comes from Assyrian 'šigaru' and entered Hebrew as a loanword. It evokes not just confinement but humiliation—a once-powerful creature reduced to a spectacle, stripped of freedom and dignity. The image would have resonated powerfully with exiles who had witnessed their own leaders taken captive to Babylon.