1) ruler, prefect, governor, a subordinate ruler 1a) prefects (of Assyria and Babylon) 1b) petty rulers or officials Aramaic equivalent: se.gan (סְגַן "prefect" H5460)
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H5461 — סָגָן
sa.gan · ruler · Hebrew/Aramaic
13 tagged verse occurrences
Ezra 9:2 · וְהַסְּגָנִ֗יםfor they have taken of their daughters to them, and to their sons, and the holy seed have mingled themselves among the peoples of the lands, and the hand of the heads and of the seconds have been first in this trespass.’Nehemiah 2:16 · וְהַסְּגָנִ֗ים · וְלַסְּגָנִ֗יםAnd the prefects have not known whither I have gone, and what I am doing; and to the Jews, and to the priests, and to the freemen, and to the prefects, and to the rest of those doing the work, hitherto I have not declared it;Nehemiah 4:14 · הַסְּגָנִים֙And I see, and rise up, and say unto the freemen, and unto the prefects, and unto the rest of the people, ‘Be not afraid of them; the Lord, the great and the fearful, remember ye, and fight for your brethren, your sons, and your daughters, your wives, and your houses.’Nehemiah 4:19 · הַסְּגָנִים֙And I say unto the freemen, and unto the prefects, and unto the rest of the people, ‘The work is abundant, and large, and we are separated on the wall, far off one from another;Nehemiah 5:7 · הַסְּגָנִ֔יםand my heart reigneth over me, and I strive with the freemen, and with the prefects, and say to them, ‘Usury one upon another ye are exacting;’ and I set against them a great assembly,Nehemiah 5:17 · וְהַסְּגָנִ֜יםand of the Jews, and of the prefects, a hundred and fifty men, and those coming in unto us of the nations that are round about us, are at my table;Nehemiah 7:5 · הַסְּגָנִ֛יםand my God putteth it unto my heart, and I gather the freeman, and the prefects, and the people, for the genealogy, and I find a book of the genealogy of those coming up at the beginning, and I find written in it:—Nehemiah 12:40 · הַסְּגָנִ֖יםAnd the two thanksgiving companies stand in the house of God, and I and half of the prefects with me,Nehemiah 13:11 · הַסְּגָנִ֔יםAnd I strive with the prefects, and say, ‘Wherefore hath the house of God been forsaken?’ and I gather them, and set them on their station;Isaiah 41:25 · סְגָנִים֙I have stirred up one from the north, And he cometh, From the rising of the sun he calleth in My name, And he cometh in on prefects as on clay, And as a potter treadeth down mire.Jeremiah 51:23 · וּסְגָנִֽים׃And I have broken in pieces by thee shepherd and his drove, And I have broken in pieces by thee husbandman and his team, And I have broken in pieces by thee governors and prefects.Jeremiah 51:28 · סְגָנֶ֑יהָSanctify against it the nations with the kings of Media, Its governors and all its prefects, And all the land of its dominion.Jeremiah 51:57 · וּסְגָנֶ֙יהָ֙And I have caused its princes to drink, And its wise men, its governors, And its prefects, and its mighty ones, And they have slept a sleep age-during, And they awake not—an affirmation of the king, Jehovah of Hosts is His name.