sagan · official, magistrate

What it means

sagan (סָגָן) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “official, magistrate”.

One who holds a government office under a higher chief. In Ezra and Nehemiah, the authorities of the people together with the leaders.

How to say it

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

1. An administrator under a higher leader.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• officials ×11
• prefects ×6

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Ezra×1
• Nehemiah×9
• Isaiah×1
• Jeremiah×3
• Ezekiel×3

• Ezra 9:2

  For they have taken of their daughters for themselves and for their sons, and the holy offspring has mixed itself with the peoples of the lands; and the hand of the officials and the officials has been first in this unfaithfulness.”

• Nehemiah 2:16

  And the officials did not know where I had gone or what I was doing; and to the Jews and to the priests and to the nobles and to the officials and to the rest of those doing the work until then I had not told it.

• Nehemiah 4:14

  I looked, and rose, and said to the nobles, to the officials, and to the rest of the people, “Do not be afraid before them. Remember Adonai, the great and fearsome, and fight for your brothers, your sons and your daughters, your wives and your houses.”

• Nehemiah 4:19

  And I said to the nobles, to the officials, and to the rest of the people, “The work is great and extensive, and we are separated on the wall, far each from his brother.

• Nehemiah 5:7

  My heart deliberated within me, and I contended with the nobles and with the officials and said to them, “You are lending at interest, each to his brother.” And I convened against them a great assembly,

• Nehemiah 5:17

  And the Jews and the officials, a hundred and fifty men, and those who came to us from the nations that are around us, were at my table.

• Nehemiah 7:5

  Then my Elohim put it into my heart, and I gathered the nobles, the officials, and the people to be registered by genealogy. And I found the book of the genealogy of those who came up at the first, and I found written in it:

• Nehemiah 12:40

  So the two thanksgiving choirs stood in the house of Elohim, and I, and half of the officials with me;

• Nehemiah 13:11

  So I contended with the officials and said, “Why is the house of Elohim abandoned?” And I gathered them and set them in their place.

• Isaiah 41:25

  I have stirred up one from the north, and he has come; from the rising of the sun he will call on my name; and he will come upon officials as upon clay, and as the potter treads mud.

• Jeremiah 51:23

  and I will shatter with you shepherd and his flock; and I will shatter with you farmer and his team; and I will shatter with you governors and prefects.

• Jeremiah 51:28

  Consecrate nations against her, the kings of Media, her governors and all her prefects, and all the land of his dominion.

• Jeremiah 51:57

  And I will make drunk her princes and her wise men, her governors and her prefects and her mighty men, and they will sleep an eternal sleep and not wake up, declares the King, YHWH Tsevaot is his name.

• Ezekiel 23:6

  clothed in blue, governors and prefects, desirable young men all of them, horsemen riding horses.

• Ezekiel 23:12

  With the sons of Assyria she was infatuated, governors and prefects, near ones, clothed to perfection, horsemen riding horses, desirable young men all of them.

• Ezekiel 23:23

  the sons of Babylon and all the Chaldeans, Pekod and Shoa and Koa, all the sons of Assyria with them, desirable young men, governors and prefects all of them, officers and renowned men, riding horses, all of them.

And 1 more times.