Queen
שֵׁגָלStrong’s H7694shegal (she-gal)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Shegal is the Hebrew word usually translated “queen-consort”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the king said unto me, (the queen also sitting by him,) For how long shall thy journey be? and when wilt thou return? So it pleased the king to send me; and I set him a time.”
Meaning
- Consort, queen, (queen-)consort
How it's translated
- and the queen-consort 1
- a queen-consort 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Nehemiah 1
- Psalms 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
שֵׁגָל shegal · queen
consort, queen, (queen-)consort Aramaic equivalent: she.gal (שֵׁגָל "consort" H7695)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “queen” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
QUEEN, noun
- The consort of a king; a queen consort.
- A woman who is the sovereign of a kingdom; a queen-regent; as Elizabeth, queen of England; Mary, queen of Scotland.
- The sovereign of a swarm of bees, or the female of the hive.
All definitions and other forms of “queen”
QUEEN, verb intransitive
To play the queen; to act the part or character of a queen
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.