Prefect
סְגַןStrong’s H5460segan (se-gan)
Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Segan is the Aramaic word usually translated “prefects the” and “prefects”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
“Then the king made Daniel a great man, and gave him many great gifts, and made him ruler over the whole province of Babylon, and chief of the governors over all the wise men of Babylon.”
Meaning
- Prefect, governor
How it's translated
- prefects the 4
- prefects 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 5
1 book in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 3:2In contextThen Nebuchadnezzar the king sent to gather together the princes, the governors, and the captains, the judges, the treasurers, the counsellors, the sheriffs, and all the rulers of the provinces, to come to the dedication of the image which Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up.
- Daniel 3:3In contextThen the princes, the governors, and captains, the judges, the treasurers, the counsellors, the sheriffs, and all the rulers of the provinces, were gathered together unto the dedication of the image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up; and they stood before the image that Nebuchadnezzar had set up.
- Daniel 3:27In contextAnd the princes, governors, and captains, and the king’s counsellors, being gathered together, saw these men, upon whose bodies the fire had no power, nor was an hair of their head singed, neither were their coats changed, nor the smell of fire had passed on them.
- Daniel 6:7In contextAll the presidents of the kingdom, the governors, and the princes, the counsellors, and the captains, have consulted together to establish a royal statute, and to make a firm decree, that whosoever shall ask a petition of any God or man for thirty days, save of thee, O king, he shall be cast into the den of lions.
Aramaic dictionary
סְגַן segan · prefect
prefect, governor Aramaic of sa.gan (סָגָן "ruler" H5461)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “prefect” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
PRE'FECT, noun
[Latin proefectus; proe, before, and factus, made; but directly from proeficior, proefectus.]
- In ancient Rome, a chief magistrate who governed a city or province in the absence of the king, consuls or emperor.
- A governor, commander, chief magistrate or superintendent.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Aramaic, not from any one translation.