Word

הֵגֵא

Hêgêʼ · H1896 · Hebrew · proper noun · 5 occurrences

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Person

Hegaifirst named in Esther 2:33 verses

Meanings

Hegai

A man also known as Hege, the eunuch in charge of the women of Ahasuerus

Examples
Esther 2:3 “And may the king appoint overseers in all the provinces of his kingdom, and have them bring every beautiful young virgin to the citadel of Susa, to the harem, into the custody of Hegai, the king’s eunuch, who is in charge of the women; and let their cosmetics be given to them.

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

Named alongside itApposition

3 occurrences in 2 groups

שָׁמַרto keep, to guard, to observe 3
סָרִיסeunuch, official 2

What it doesIt is the subject

1 occurrences in 1 groups

אָמַרto say 1

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

4 occurrences in 2 groups

יָדhand, power 3
בֵּןson 1

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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Semantic domains 1 entry

Names of People003001007: הֵגֵא is the personal name Hegai, the eunuch in charge of King Ahasuerus's harem who oversaw Esther's preparation before the king.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H1896. Hege ' הֵגֵא proper name, masculine eunuch of Ahasuerus (probably Persian; compare…

H1896. Hege
' הֵגֵא proper name, masculine eunuch of Ahasuerus (probably Persian; compare Ἠγιας, courtier of Xerxes, CtesiasPers 24; also Herodotix. 33; Roed. in Thes Add) Est 2:3; = הֵגַי Est 2:8, Est 2:15, הֵגָ֑י Est 2:8.
הגג (murmur, then muse; then compare Arabic burn, blaze (of fire), make a murmuring noise in burning; PS gives Syriac phantasma vidit, somniavit; Ethpe`el & especially Ethpa`al mente concepit, imaginatus est; compare also הָגָה).
הֵגָ֑י הֵגַי, proper name, masculine see הֵגֵא.
הגן (Late Hebrew הֲגַן Aramaic הֲגַן be suitable, fit, worthy: on original meaning compare Fl in NHWB, under the word)

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Names of People5 occurrences

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