Hebrew Word Study · Strong’s H5461
סָגָן
sa.gan · “ruler”
Used 17 times across 5 books
Definition
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)
1a) prefects (of Assyria and Babylon)
1b) petty rulers or officials
Aramaic equivalent: se.gan (סְגַן "prefect" H5460)
Where it appears
Ezra1
Nehemiah9
Isaiah1
Jeremiah3
Ezekiel3
In the text
Ezra 9:2For they have taken of their daughters for themselves, and for their sons: so that the holy seed have mingled themselves with the people of those lands: yea, the hand of the princes and rulers hath been chief in this trespass.Nehemiah 2:16And the rulers knew not whither I went, or what I did; neither had I as yet told it to the Jews, nor to the priests, nor to the nobles, nor to the rulers, nor to the rest that did the work.Nehemiah 4:8And conspired all of them together to come and to fight against Jerusalem, and to hinder it.Nehemiah 4:13Therefore set I in the lower places behind the wall, and on the higher places, I even set the people after their families with their swords, their spears, and their bows.Nehemiah 5:7Then I consulted with myself, and I rebuked the nobles, and the rulers, and said unto them, Ye exact usury, every one of his brother. And I set a great assembly against them.Nehemiah 5:17Moreover there were at my table an hundred and fifty of the Jews and rulers, beside those that came unto us from among the heathen that are about us.Nehemiah 7:5And my God put into mine heart to gather together the nobles, and the rulers, and the people, that they might be reckoned by genealogy. And I found a register of the genealogy of them which came up at the first, and found written therein,Nehemiah 12:40So stood the two companies of them that gave thanks in the house of God, and I, and the half of the rulers with me:Nehemiah 13:11Then contended I with the rulers, and said, Why is the house of God forsaken? And I gathered them together, and set them in their place.Isaiah 41:25I have raised up one from the north, and he shall come: from the rising of the sun shall he call upon my name: and he shall come upon princes as upon morter, and as the potter treadeth clay.
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