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title: שֵׁגָל — consort · The Tanakh dictionary
description: שֵׁגָל (7694), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 2 times: consort. BDB 1906: n.f. consort. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# שֵׁגָל

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«שֵׁגָל» in the Tanakh dictionary: **consort** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 2 times · **Key:** 7694 · **BDB:** שֵׁגָל

### Glosses

a.queen-consort (1); queen-consort (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

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

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

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

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**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 √ \[שָׁגֵל\]).

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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)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «שֵׁגָל» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7694/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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

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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.

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

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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.

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