The meaning of “סָגָן”
Understanding çâgân reveals the original theological depth often simplified in translation.
prince, ruler. - a prefect of a province 1) ruler, prefect, governor, a subordinate ruler 1a) prefects (of Assyria and B...
סָגָן
prince, ruler. - a prefect of a province 1) ruler, prefect, governor, a subordinate ruler 1a) prefects (of Assyria and Babylon) 1b) petty rulers or officials
Occurrences in the Bible
| Reference | Text | |
|---|---|---|
| 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, the hand of the princes and rulers hath been chief in this trespass.” Word: סָגָן (çâgân) | |
| 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.” Word: סָגָן (çâgân) | |
| 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, and as the potter treadeth clay.” Word: סָגָן (çâgân) | |
| 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.” Word: סָגָן (çâgân) | |
| 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.” Word: סָגָן (çâgân) |
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