Prefect
סְגַןStrong’s H5461segan (se-gan)
Appears in 16 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Segan is the Hebrew word usually translated “officials” and “officials its”. It appears in 16 verses of the Old Testament.
“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.”
Meaning
- Prefect, governor
How it's translated
- the officials 6
- and officials 4
- and the officials 3
- and to the officials 1
- officials 1
- officials its 1
- and officials its 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Nehemiah 8
- Jeremiah 3
- Ezekiel 3
- Ezra 1
- Isaiah 1
5 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- 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 4:14And 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 great and terrible, and fight for your brethren, your sons, and your daughters, your wives, and your houses.
- Nehemiah 4:19And I said unto the nobles, and to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, The work is great and large, and we are separated upon the wall, one far from another.
- 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,
Hebrew 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 Hebrew, not from any one translation.