שֵׁגָל
shegal · queen, royal wife
Aramaic word · Strong’s number H7695 · appears 3 times in the Bible
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shegal (שֵׁגָל) is an Aramaic word of the Bible that means “queen, royal wife”.
Royal wife, queen (Aramaic): a wife of the king.
How to say it
she·gal
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 king's consorts.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
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Where it appears
- Daniel 5:2
Belshazzar, at the taste of the wine, said to bring the vessels of gold and of silver that Nebuchadnezzar his father had taken out of the temple that was in Jerusalem, so that the king and his nobles, his wives and his concubines might drink from them.
- Daniel 5:3
Then they brought the vessels of gold that had been taken out of the temple of the house of Elah that was in Jerusalem; and the king and his nobles, his wives and his concubines drank from them.
- Daniel 5:23
But against the Lord of the heavens you have lifted yourself up; and the vessels of his house they brought before you, and you and your nobles, your wives and your concubines have been drinking wine from them; and the gods of silver and of gold, of bronze, of iron, of wood and of stone, which do not see or hear or know, you have praised; but the Elah in whose hand is your breath and whose are all your ways, you have not glorified.