Word

דָּגַל

dâgal · H1713 · Hebrew · 4 occurrences

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Thing

Standard, ensign, bannerWarfare38 verses

Meanings

to array oneself with banners

Action by which a group divides itself into smaller groups, organized with the help of banners

Examples
Psalm 20:5 We will sing for joy over your victory, And in the name of our God we will set up our banners. May the LORD fulfill all your desires.
army with banners

Group of soldiers wielding banners; considered a beautiful, though frightening, sight

Examples
Song of Solomon 6:4 “You are as beautiful as Tirzah, my darling, As lovely as Jerusalem, As awesome as an army with banners.
Song of Solomon 6:10 ‘Who is this who looks down like the dawn, As beautiful as the full moon, As pure as the sun, As awesome as an army with banners?’
to be prominent, to stand out

To possess more of a certain quality than one's peers and therefore stand out among them; compared to a banner, which, when one looks at an army, is prominently visible

Examples
Song of Solomon 5:10 “My beloved is dazzling and reddish, Outstanding among ten thousand.

How it’s used In 3 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Who or what does itSubject

2 occurrences in 2 groups

Not stated: we 1
Not stated (participle) 1

With prepositionsPrepositional phrases

2 occurrences in 2 groups

מִןfrom+ רְבָבָהten thousand 1
בin/on/with+ שֵׁםname 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

2 occurrences in 1 groups

כlike/as 2

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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In the other Testament 1 word

τάσσω tássō · G5021 · to appoint, to designate, to assign: Greek τάσσω emphasizes the action of arranging/ordering troops into position, while Hebrew דָּגַל focuses on the military standard (banner) itself as the organizing marker; the LXX employs τάσσω to render the organizational aspect of banner-marked military formations.

Semantic domains 3 entries

Arrange002002001001: The verb describes arranging or setting up under a banner, the organizing signal by which troops or a company are marshaled together.
Soldiers001001003013: The word is used of an army arrayed with banners, a martial image applied poetically to a beloved's overwhelming beauty.
Great002001002012: The verb also describes being preeminent or outstanding, used of the beloved described as distinguished or conspicuous among ten thousand.

Word family 2 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

דָּגַלdâgal · H1713דֶּגֶל degel · H1714 · banner, standard · 14×

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H1713. dagal [דָּגַל] verb look, bahold (Assyrian dagâlu, LotzTP 131; Thes Rob-Ges MV SS…

H1713. dagal
[דָּגַל] verb look, bahold (Assyrian dagâlu, LotzTP 131; Thes Rob-Ges MV SS De make דָּגוּל a denominative from דֶּגֶל = lifted up like a banner, or furnished with a banner, i.e. exalted, distinguished, AV RV chiefest); — Passive participle מֵרְבָבָה דָּגוּל Son 5:10 looked at, conspicuous, according to DlHA 40.
[דָּגַל] verb denominative carry, or set up standard, banner —
Qal Imperfect1plural נִדְנֹּל Psa 20:6 (Gr Che נָגִיל; Bi נְגַדֵּל, after ᵑ6 ᵐ5; Now נִגְדַּל; possibly נַגְדִּל ?) set up standard in battle, compare DlPr 61.
Niph`al Participle feminine plural נִדְגָּלוֺת Son 6:4, Son 6:10 bannered, supplied with standards, participle as substantive, of bannered hosts, compare De.
דגן (√ of following meaning dubious; Late Hebrew דַּגֵּן Pa`el heap up etc. seems to be denominative; Ol§ 215 b. 4 derives דָּגָן from דָּגָה, compare MV; WeSkizzen iii. 170 inclines to regard דָּגָן as derived from proper name, of divinity דגן (compare דָּגוֺן), as cereal from Ceres).

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 3 entries

Soldiers2 occurrences Great1 occurrence Arrange1 occurrence

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