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# שֵׁגָל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7694

**consort** — used 2 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

consort [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7694/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שֵׁגָל: n.f. consort [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7694/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. (queen-) consort Ne 2:6 ψ 45:10, + perhaps Ju 5:30 c v. שָׁלָל (Palm. n.pr.f. שגל Lzb372 SAC111 GACooke309; Thes1363 cp. ‘queen,’ orig. ‘woman’; but שׁ׳ loan-word according to LagBN 51, 153 and not from √ \[שָׁגֵל\]).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a queen-consort (1); queen-consort (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 45:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.45.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.45.10/#tree)

בְּנ֣וֹת מְ֭לָכִים בְּיִקְּרוֹתֶ֑יךָ נִצְּבָ֥ה שֵׁגַ֥ל לִֽ֝ימִינְךָ֗ בְּכֶ֣תֶם אוֹפִֽיר׃

*Word for word:* daughters of.kings \[are\].among your.noble \[women\] she.stands a.queen-consort to your.right hand in.(the) gold of.Ophir

*JPS 1917:* Kings' daughters are among thy favourites; at thy right hand doth stand the queen in gold of Ophir.

[Nehemiah 2:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.2.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.2.6/#tree)

וַיֹּאמֶר֩ לִ֨י הַמֶּ֜לֶךְ וְהַשֵּׁגַ֣ל ׀ יוֹשֶׁ֣בֶת אֶצְל֗וֹ עַד־מָתַ֛י יִהְיֶ֥ה מַֽהֲלָכֲךָ֖ וּמָתַ֣י תָּשׁ֑וּב וַיִּיטַ֤ב לִפְנֵֽי־הַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙ וַיִּשְׁלָחֵ֔נִי וָֽאֶתְּנָ֥ה ל֖וֹ זְמָֽן׃

*Word for word:* and he.said to me the king and the queen-consort \[was\].sitting beside him until when? will.it.be journey your and when? will.you.return and it.was.good before the king and he sent.me and I gave to him an.appointed.time

*JPS 1917:* And the king said unto me, the queen also sitting by him: 'For how long shall thy journey be? and when wilt thou return?' So it pleased the king to send me; and I set him a time.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7694.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7694/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).