סָגָן
çâgân · H5461 · Hebrew · 17 occurrences
Meanings
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prefect, official
A person of authority
ExamplesEzra 9:2 “For they have taken some of their daughters as wives for themselves and for their sons, so that the holy line has intermingled with the peoples of the lands; indeed, the hands of the officials and the leaders have taken the lead in this unfaithfulness.”
Isaiah 41:25 “I have put one from the north into motion, and he has come; From the rising of the sun he will call on My name; And he will come upon rulers as upon mortar, As the potter treads on clay.”
Jeremiah 51:23 And with you I shatter the shepherd and his flock, And with you I shatter the farmer and his team, And with you I shatter governors and officials.
How it’s used In 8 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- הּher 2
Named alongside itApposition
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- בֵּןson 1
- אִישׁman, person, each 1
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- יָדַעto know 1
What is done to itIt is the object
3 occurrences in 3 groups
- נָפַץto break 1
- קָבַץto gather, to assemble 1
- קָדַשׁto consecrate, to sanctify 1
What it is said to bePredicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- שֻׁלְחָןtable 1
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- הֶםtheir 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
5 occurrences in 3 groups
- אֵתwith 3
- אֵלto, toward 2
- לto/for 1
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- חֵצִיhalf 1
- יָדhand, power 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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Near synonyms 2 words
- פֶּחָה pechâh · H6346 · governor
- Both terms denote governmental officials or rulers, overlapping in the administrative or leadership sphere — ruler/prince versus governor/captain/deputy.
- שַׂר sar · H8269 · commander, chief, captain
- Both words denote high-ranking officials or rulers, conceptually "prince, ruler, official," with overlapping ranges of sense.
In the other Testament 3 words
- στρατηγός stratēgós · G4755 · magistrate, ruler of a city, commander of the Temple guard
- Greek στρατηγός specifically denotes military commanders and magistrates (praetors, temple captains), a more specialized subset of the broader Hebrew סָגָן 'prince/ruler' which can encompass civil officials and governors without military connotation.
- ἄρχων árchōn · G758 · ruler, governor, official
- Greek ἄρχων renders Hebrew סָגָן as the standard LXX translation for 'ruler/prince,' both denoting a governing official or leader in hierarchical authority structures.
- סְגַן çᵉgan · H5460 · governor
- Aramaic cognate denoting a governor or official with administrative authority, functionally equivalent to the Hebrew term for prince/ruler in contexts of political hierarchy.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Leaders001001003005
- The word names a governor or high official, listed among the officials Nebuchadnezzar gathers for the dedication of his image (Daniel 3:2-3), tying the word to this rank of political authority.
- Officials001001003007
- The word's use for a specific administrative post ties it to an appointed office within a governing hierarchy, a broader bureaucratic sense than a bare title of prominence.
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H5461. sagan [סֶ֫גֶן סָגָן,] noun masculine prefect, ruler (loan-word from Assyrian…
[סֶ֫גֶן סָגָן,] noun masculine prefect, ruler (loan-word from Assyrian šaknu, prefect of conquered city or province (√ šakânu, set, appoint DlHWB 659, compare SchrCOT Isa 41:25; apparently = Late Hebrew סֶגֶן סָגָן,, Aramaic סִגְנָא a superior (not high) priest; Mandean אשגאנדא WBrandtMand. Schriften 169 a candidate for priesthood; compare Jen in Brandtib.; hence perhaps Greek ζωγάνης, compare LewyFremdw. 129); — only plural סְגָנִים Eze 23:6 Eze 23:14t.; suffix סְגָנֶיהָ Jer 51:57 + Jer 51:58 (where read probably ᵐ5 סְגָנָיו Gie); —
1 prefects of Assyr. and Babylonian Eze 23:6, Eze 23:12, Eze 23:23; Jer 51:23, Jer 51:57 (all + מַּחוֺת), Isa 41:25, of king of Medes Jer 51:28 (+ מַּחוֺת).
2 petty rulers, officials of Judah (only Nehemiah Ezra in sources): distinguished from חֹרִים nobles Neh 2:16; Neh 4:8; Neh 4:13; Neh 5:7; Neh 7:5; alone, Neh 2:16; Neh 12:40; Neh 13:11; + יְהוּדִים Neh 5:17 (see also Neh 2:16); + שָׂרִים Ezr 9:2. compare Biblical Aramaic סְגַן.
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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