Lexicon Hege': Hegai Original Word: הֵגָיPart of Speech: Proper Name Masculine Transliteration: Hege' Phonetic Spelling: (hay-gay') Short Definition: Hegai Brown-Driver-Briggs הֵגֵא proper name, masculine eunuch of Ahasuerus (probably Persian; compare Ἠγιας, courtier of Xerxes, Ctesias Pers 24; also Herodot ix. 33; Roed. in Thes Add) Esther 2:3; = הֵגַי Esther 2:8,15, הֵגָ֑י Esther 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). הֵגַי, הֵגָ֑י 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)
Strong's Hegai, Hege Or (by permutation) Hegay {hay-gah'-ee}; probably of Persian origin; Hege or Hegai, a eunuch of Xerxes -- Hegai, Hege. |
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