רָזַן
razan · ruler, dignitary
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H7336 · appears 6 times in the Bible
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razan (רָזַן) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “ruler, dignitary”.
Dignitary: a person of weight, an important ruler. It always appears alongside "kings."
How to say it
ra·zan
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- The great ones who govern.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- dignitaries ×3
- rulers ×3
Related words
Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Judges 5:3
Hear, kings; give ear, dignitaries. I, I will sing to YHWH; I will sing psalms to YHWH, the Elohim of Israel.
- Psalms 2:2
The kings of the earth take their stand, and the dignitaries conspire together against YHWH and against his anointed:
- Proverbs 8:15
By me kings reign, and rulers decree righteousness.
- Proverbs 31:4
Not for kings, Lemuel, not for kings to drink wine, and for rulers, where is intoxicating drink?
- Isaiah 40:23
who brings rulers to nothing; the judges of the earth he makes like emptiness.
- Habakkuk 1:10
And it scoffs at kings, and dignitaries are a laughingstock to it; it laughs at every fortress, and heaps up dirt and captures it.