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סְגַן

se.gan

prefect

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Strong’s H5460Noun, masculine5 times in the Aramaic of the Hebrew Bible

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Translated as

prefects5

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Daniel 2:48סִגְנִין
Then the king promoted Daniel and gave him many generous gifts. He made him ruler over the entire province of Babylon and chief administrator over all the wise men of Babylon.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[סְגַן] n.m. prefect

Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.