Hebrew proper noun (a person) · H1896
הֵגֵא
Hegehay-gay'
Hegai
4 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: Hêgêʼ
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H1896is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 39Old Testament books
- 4spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H1896
Hege or Hegai, a eunuch of Xerxes
The King James renders it: Hegai, Hege.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
Hege is rendered "Hegai". It stands 4 times in the Hebrew text, across one book.
- Four of the uses stand in Esther, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Esther 2:3and let the king appoint commissioners in each province of his kingdom to assemble all the beautiful young women into the harem at the citadel of Susa. Let them be placed under the care of Hegai, the king’s eunuch in charge of the women, and let them be given beauty treatments.
- The Greek text spells it four different ways.
The first use
and let the king appoint commissioners in each province of his kingdom to assemble all the beautiful young women into the harem at the citadel of Susa. Let them be placed under the care of Hegai, the king’s eunuch in charge of the women, and let them be given beauty treatments.
Esther 2:3הֵגֶ֛א
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Four of the word's four uses are in Esther.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- Hegai4
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 4, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
4 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- הֵגֶ֛א1
- הֵגַ֖י1
- הֵגַ֥י1
- הֵגָ֑י1
The grammar of each form
- proper noun (a name)4HNpm
Esther
four uses
and let the king appoint commissioners in each province of his kingdom to assemble all the beautiful young women into the harem at the citadel of Susa. Let them be placed under the care of Hegai, the king’s eunuch in charge of the women, and let them be given beauty treatments.
- הֵגֶ֛אhege'proper noun (a name)tagged: Hegai
When the king’s command and edict had been proclaimed, many young women gathered at the citadel of Susa under the care of Hegai. Esther was also taken to the palace and placed under the care of Hegai, the custodian of the women.
- הֵגָ֑יhegaiproper noun (a name)tagged: Hegai
- הֵגַ֖יhegaiproper noun (a name)tagged: Hegai
Now Esther was the daughter of Abihail, the uncle from whom Mordecai had adopted her as his own daughter. And when it was her turn to go to the king, she did not ask for anything except what Hegai, the king’s trusted official in charge of the harem, had advised. And Esther found favor in the eyes of everyone who saw her.
- הֵגַ֥יhegaiproper noun (a name)tagged: Hegai
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.