שֵׁגָל
queen
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H7694 appears — 2 distinct verses across 2 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Nehemiah 1 verse
Psalms 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
שגל (shêgâl) is a Hebrew noun most often rendered “queen.” With only 2 verses it sits in the long tail of Hebrew Bible vocabulary. It clusters heavily in Nehemiah, which alone accounts for 50% of its uses. Debuting at Nehemiah 2:6, it then recurs through the corpus. From the same root come שגל and שגל. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H7694 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 2
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 2 distinct verses.
- 2 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 2 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #4,807
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 4,807 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 2 occurrences in the concordance →
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 2 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 2 verses · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Queen 2×
- American Standard Version: Me 1×, Queen 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Queen 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Queen 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H7694 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H7694 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H7694 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H7694 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- consort, queen, (queen-)consort
Word origin
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]).
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from שגל (shâgal) (H7693) — to ravish.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
גַּל
- 1. heap of stones, bones &c., esp. rubbish, ruins. Sot. IX, 2 if the body of a murdered person was found טמון בג׳ buried in a heap. Keth. 15ᵇ לפקח עליו את הג׳ as to removing debris for saving one’s life (on the Sabbath). Sabb. 34ᵃ עשהו ג׳ של עצמות changed him into a heap of bones; a. fr.—Pl. גַּלִּים, גַּלִּין. Nidd. IX, 5. Kil. I, 2, v. חֲזֶרֶת. Cmp. גִּילָּא.
- 2. wave, billow. Mikv. V, 6 ג׳ שנתלש a wave thrown on shore. Yeb. 121ᵃ; a. fr.—Pl. as above. Ex. R. s. 19 הגיעוה ג׳ waves overcame her, i.e. she encountered storms; a. e.
- 3. revolving door, turning on hinges or pivots. Sabb. 81ᵃ של ג׳ the pivot of a revolving door. V. גִּלָּה.
- 4. (v. LXX Hos. XII, 12) turtoise. Pl. as above. Sifra Sh’mini, ch. IV, Par. 3. e.g. Hosea 12:12
שֵׁגָל
- king’s wife or mistress. R. Hash. 4ᵃ (ref. to Neh. II, 6) מאי ש׳ אמר … כלבתא what is shegal? Said Rabbah …, a she-dog. Ib. (ref. to Ps. XLV, 10) ואי ש׳ כלבתא היא וכ׳ if shegal meant dog, what good tidings did the prophet announce for Israel? Ib. לעולם ש׳ מלכתא היא וכ׳ shegal means in general queen, and that opinion of Rabbah … (as regards Neh. l. c.) is a tradition &c.—Pl. שִׁגְלוֹנוֹת (fr. שגלון). Snh. 95ᵇ e.g. Nehemiah 2:6
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 2 distinct written forms H7694 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| וְ/הַ/שֵּׁגַ֣ל | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Nehemiah 2:6 | 1 |
| שֵׁגַ֥ל | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Psalms 45:9 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H7694, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Derived from this word
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Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 1 verse that also exists in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 2 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
