Yeshivish glossary term
agun
עגון
Meaning
- man whose marital status is unresolved or who cannot remarry in a relevant halachic circumstance
Alternate spellings
agoon
Usage and context
The masculine counterpart term is less common in everyday English than agunah.
- Category
- marriage - divorce
- Language origin
- Hebrew
Example in Yeshivish
The case also involved the status of an agun.
Plain-English example
The case also involved a man whose marital status was halachically unresolved.