Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
ruler
Usage: 1) ruler, prefect, governor, a subordinate ruler 1a) prefects (of Assyria and Babylon) 1b) petty rulers or officials Aramaic equivalent: se.gan (סְגַן "prefect" H5460)
Cagan means “prince” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's G5461 — photizo (“shed rays”) in the Greek Bible.
Strong's H5461 סָגָן (cagan) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. cagan (saw-gawn') n-m. 1. a prefect of a province [from an unused root meaning to superintend] It has 16 linked Bible usages across 5 books. Visible English usage signals include rulers. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
cagan (saw-gawn') n-m. 1. a prefect of a province [from an unused root meaning to superintend] KJV: prince, ruler.
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ruler
Usage: 1) ruler, prefect, governor, a subordinate ruler 1a) prefects (of Assyria and Babylon) 1b) petty rulers or officials Aramaic equivalent: se.gan (סְגַן "prefect" H5460)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render cagan, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
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16 indexed usages in Old Testament.
For they have taken of their daughters for themselves, and for their sons: so that the holy seed have mingled themselves with the people of those lands: yea, the hand of the princes and rulers hath been chief in this trespass.
And the rulers knew not whither I went, or what I did; neither had I as yet told it to the Jews, nor to the priests, nor to the nobles, nor to the rulers, nor to the rest that did the work.
And I looked, and rose up, and said unto the nobles, and to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, Be not ye afraid of them: remember the LORD, which is great and terrible, and fight for your brethren, your sons, and your daughters, your wives, and your houses.
First 16 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H5461.
For they have taken of their daughters for themselves, and for their sons: so that the holy seed have mingled themselves with the people of those lands: yea, the hand of the princes and rulers hath been chief in this trespass.
And the rulers knew not whither I went, or what I did; neither had I as yet told it to the Jews, nor to the priests, nor to the nobles, nor to the rulers, nor to the rest that did the work.
And I looked, and rose up, and said unto the nobles, and to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, Be not ye afraid of them: remember the LORD, which is great and terrible, and fight for your brethren, your sons, and your daughters, your wives, and your houses.
And I said unto the nobles, and to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, The work is great and large, and we are separated upon the wall, one far from another.
Then I consulted with myself, and I rebuked the nobles, and the rulers, and said unto them, Ye exact usury, every one of his brother. And I set a great assembly against them.
Moreover there were at my table an hundred and fifty of the Jews and rulers, beside those that came unto us from among the heathen that are about us.
And my God put into mine heart to gather together the nobles, and the rulers, and the people, that they might be reckoned by genealogy. And I found a register of the genealogy of them which came up at the first, and found written therein,
So stood the two companies of them that gave thanks in the house of God, and I, and the half of the rulers with me:
Then contended I with the rulers, and said, Why is the house of God forsaken? And I gathered them together, and set them in their place.
I have raised up one from the north, and he shall come: from the rising of the sun shall he call upon my name: and he shall come upon princes as upon morter, and as the potter treadeth clay.
I will also break in pieces with thee the shepherd and his flock; and with thee will I break in pieces the husbandman and his yoke of oxen; and with thee will I break in pieces captains and rulers.
Prepare against her the nations with the kings of the Medes, the captains thereof, and all the rulers thereof, and all the land of his dominion.
And I will make drunk her princes, and her wise men, her captains, and her rulers, and her mighty men: and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts.
Which were clothed with blue, captains and rulers, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding upon horses.
She doted upon the Assyrians her neighbours, captains and rulers clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding upon horses, all of them desirable young men.
The Babylonians, and all the Chaldeans, Pekod, and Shoa, and Koa, and all the Assyrians with them: all of them desirable young men, captains and rulers, great lords and renowned, all of them riding upon horses.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H5461, grouped by book.
Cagan (Strong's H5461) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "prince". cagan (saw-gawn') n-m. 1. a prefect of a province [from an unused root meaning to superintend]
This page currently indexes 16 linked usages for Strong's H5461 across 5 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H5461 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as rulers. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.