סָגָן sagan
Hebrew word for “ruler” · Strong’s H5461 · used 17 times in 16 verses
Meaning
1) ruler, prefect, governor, a subordinate ruler;
How it is translated
Glosses given for sagan in context, with how often each is used:
- officials 17
Where it is used
Chapters where it is used most
Jeremiah 51 (3), Ezekiel 23 (3), Nehemiah 4 (2), Nehemiah 5 (2), Ezra 9 (1), Nehemiah 2 (1), Nehemiah 7 (1), Nehemiah 12 (1), Nehemiah 13 (1), Isaiah 41 (1)
Forms
- הסגנים 6
- וסגנים 4
- והסגנים 3
- ולסגנים 1
- סגנים 1
- סגניה 1
- וסגניה 1
Words used with it
Words that share verses with sagan more often than their overall frequency would suggest:
- פֶּחָה pechah “governor” 6
- חֹר chor “noble” 5
- חֶמֶד chemed “delight” 3
- בָּחוּר bachur “youth” 3
- רָכַב rakhav “to ride” 3
- יֶתֶר yeter “remainder” 3
- סוּס sus “horse” 3
- פָּרָשׁ parash “horseman” 2
- רִיב riv “to contend” 2
- יְהוּדִי yehudi “Jew” 2
- אָח ach “brother” 3
- לָבֵשׁ lavash “to clothe” 2
Key verses
The verses using sagan that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):
- Ezra 9:2 — For 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,…
- Nehemiah 4:14 — And I looked, and rose up, and said unto the nobles, and to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, Be not ye afraid of them: remember the Lord, which is…
- Nehemiah 5:7 — Then 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…
- Nehemiah 5:17 — Moreover 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 7:5 — And 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…
- Nehemiah 12:40 — So 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 13:11 — Then 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 41:25 — I 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,…
- Jeremiah 51:28 — Prepare against her the nations with the kings of the Medes, the captains thereof, and all the rulers thereof, and all the land of his dominion.
- Jeremiah 51:57 — And I will make drunk her princes, and her wise men, her captains, and her rulers, and her mighty men: and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake,…
- Ezekiel 23:12 — She doted upon the Assyrians her neighbours, captains and rulers clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding upon horses, all of them desirable young men.
- Ezekiel 23:23 — The Babylonians, and all the Chaldeans, Pekod, and Shoa, and Koa, and all the Assyrians with them: all of them desirable young men, captains and rulers, great…
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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.