Lexical Definition

‎שֵׁגָל‎ shêgâl (shay-gawl') queen ^H:N-F
from ‎שָׁגַל‎

queen.

• a queen (from cohabitation)

1) consort, queen, (queen-)consort

See Greek: βασίλισσα

Extended Information

• Aramaic equivalent: she.gal (‎ש‎ֵׁ‎ג‎ָ‎ל‎ "consort" שֵׁגָל)

Brown-Driver-Briggs

Aramaic form: שֵׁגָל
‎שֵׁגָל‎ noun feminine (queen-)consort Neh 2:6; Ps 45:10*, + perh, Judg 5:30c see ‎שְׁלָל‎ (Palmyrene proper name, feminine ‎שגּל‎ Lzb³⁷² SAC¹¹¹ GACooke³⁰⁹; Thes¹³⁶³ compare 'queen,' originally 'woman'; but ‎׳‎‎שׁ‎ loan-word according to Lag^{BN 51, 153 and not} from √[‎שָׁגֵל‎]).

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