הֵגֵא
he.ge
Hegai
Lexicon Entry
Lexicon data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
What Original Readers Understood
Supported# Analysis of Hegai (H1896) Based on the lexical data provided, Hegai is a proper noun appearing four times in the Hebrew Bible. As a name rather than a common word with semantic range, it does not carry a meaning that can be analyzed through definition. Instead, it functions as a personal identifier within the biblical text. The limited occurrence of this name (only four attestations) suggests it refers to a specific individual of minor to moderate prominence in the biblical narrative. Without additional lexical data regarding the etymology, social role, or narrative context of this figure, the analysis remains constrained to noting that Hegai is exclusively used as a proper name—a designation for a particular person rather than a concept or object with variable usage across different biblical contexts. To understand the significance of Hegai within biblical literature would require consulting the passages where the name appears, which falls outside the scope of lexical analysis alone. The lexicon data confirms only that this is a biblical name with limited textual distribution.
Source data & methodology
Occurrences in Scripture
4 total occurrences across the text
Let the king appoint officers in all the provinces of his kingdom, that they may gather together all the beautiful young virgins to the citadel of Susa, to the women’s house, to the custody of Hegai the king’s eunuch, keeper of the women. Let cosmetics be given them;
Esther 2:8So, when the king’s commandment and his decree was heard, and when many maidens were gathered together to the citadel of Susa, to the custody of Hegai, Esther was taken into the king’s house, to the custody of Hegai, keeper of the women.
Esther 2:8So, when the king’s commandment and his decree was heard, and when many maidens were gathered together to the citadel of Susa, to the custody of Hegai, Esther was taken into the king’s house, to the custody of Hegai, keeper of the women.
Esther 2:15Now when the turn of Esther, the daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai, who had taken her for his daughter, came to go in to the king, she required nothing but what Hegai the king’s eunuch, the keeper of the women, advised. Esther obtained favor in the sight of all those who looked at her.