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Friday, April 19th, 2024
the Third Week after Easter

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Bible Lexicons

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Strong's #1896 - הֵגַי

Transliteration

Hêgêʼ

Phonetics

hay-gay', hay-gah'ee

Root Word (Etymology)

probably of Persian origin

Parts of Speech

Proper Name Masculine

TWOT

None

Definition

Brown-Driver-Briggs
Strong

Brown-Driver-Briggs'

Hegai or Hege = “eunuch”

1) one of the eunuchs of the court of Ahasuerus

Frequency Lists

Book
Word

Verse Results

KJV (4)

Esther 4

HCS (0)

HCS (4)

Esther 4

BSB (4)

Esther 4

ESV (4)

Esther 4

WEB (4)

Esther 4

Brown-Driver-Briggs Expanded Definition

הֵגֵא proper name, masculine eunuch of Ahasuerus (probably Persian; compare Ἠγιας, courtier of Xerxes, Ctesias^{Pers 24}; also Herodot^{ix. 33}; Roed. in Thes Add) Esther 2:3; = הֵגַי Esther 2:8,15, הֵגָ֑י Esther 2:8.

הגג ( murmur, then muse; then compare Arabic burn, blaze (of fire), make a murmuring noise in burning; PS gives Syriac phantasma vidit, somniavit; Ethpe`el & especially Ethpa`al mente concepit, imaginatus est; compare also הָגָה).

הֵגַי, הֵגָ֑י proper name, masculine see הֵגֵא.

הגן (Late Hebrew הֲגַן Aramaic הֲגַן be suitable, fit, worthy: on original meaning compare Fl in NHWB, under the word)

List of Word Forms

הֵגֶ֛א הֵגַ֖י הֵגַ֥י הֵגָ֑י הגא הגי hê·ḡay hê·ḡāy hê·ḡe heGai hêḡay hêḡāy heGe hêḡe