King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER H1896
Transliteration: Hege'
Phonetic Spelling: (hay-gay')
Part of Speech: Proper Name Masculine
Short Definition: eunuch of Ahasuerus
Meaning: Hege -- Hegai
Word Summary
Hege': eunuch of Ahasuerus
Original Word: הֵגֵאTransliteration: Hege'
Phonetic Spelling: (hay-gay')
Part of Speech: Proper Name Masculine
Short Definition: eunuch of Ahasuerus
Meaning: Hege -- Hegai
Strong's Concordance
Hegai, Hege Or (by permutation) Hegay {hay-gah'-ee}; probably of Persian origin; Hege or Hegai, a eunuch of Xerxes -- Hegai, Hege.
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H1896. Hege
' הֵגֵא proper name, masculine eunuch of Ahasuerus (probably Persian; compare Ἠγιας, courtier of Xerxes, CtesiasPers 24; also Herodotix. 33; Roed. in Thes Add) Esther 2:3; = הֵגַי 2:8, 15, הֵגָ֑י 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).
הֵגָ֑י הֵגַי, 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)