אֲדַרְגָּזֵר
ʼădargâzêr · H148 · Aramaic · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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counselor
Person providing counsel to someone in authority
ExamplesDaniel 3:2 Nebuchadnezzar the king also sent word to assemble the satraps, the prefects and the governors, the counselors, the chief treasurers, the judges, the magistrates, and all the administrators of the provinces to come to the dedication of the statue that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up.
Daniel 3:3 Then the satraps, the prefects and the governors, the counselors, the chief treasurers, the judges, the magistrates, and all the administrators of the provinces were assembled for the dedication of the statue that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up; and they stood before the statue that Nebuchadnezzar had set up.
How it’s used
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 1 word
- שָׁפַט shâphaṭ · H8199 · to judge, to pronounce judgement, to administer justice
- The standard Hebrew term for a judge or judicial official; שֹׁפֵט is the common native Hebrew word for one who judges, whereas אֲדַרְגָּזֵר appears to be a loanword (likely Persian) for a judicial official in the administrative context of the post-exilic period.
In the other Testament 2 words
- κριτής kritḗs · G2923 · judge
- Standard Greek translation equivalent for Hebrew judicial officials; κριτής is the common LXX rendering for Hebrew judicial terms and corresponds directly to the semantic field of 'judge' as a legal official.
- δικαστής dikastḗs · G1348 · judge
- Greek term for a judicial official or judge; synonymous with κριτής but with more explicit focus on the adjudicating function, appropriate as a translation equivalent for a Hebrew term denoting a judicial officer.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Leaders001001003005
- Daniel 3:2 recounts that “Nebuchadnezzar the king also sent word to assemble the satraps, the prefects and the governors, the counselors, the chief treasurers, the judges, the magistrates, and all the administrators of the provinces.”
- Officials001001003007
- Daniel 3:3 recounts that “the satraps, the prefects and the governors, the counselors, the chief treasurers, the judges, the magistrates, and all the administrators of the provinces were assembled for the dedication of the statue.”
Word family 6 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H148. adargazar [אֲדַרְגָּזַר] noun masculine counsellor (Persian loan-word = andarzaghar…
[אֲדַרְגָּזַר] noun masculine counsellor (Persian loan-word = andarzaghar NöCOT Dan 3:2 Tabari 462 AndrM 51 * Str42* Dr Scheftii. 57; MeyEntst. J. 25 questions, and thinks military title); — plural emphatic אֲדַרְגָָּֽןְרַיָּא Dan 3:2-3,.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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