Strong's #5461: cagan (pronounced saw-gawn')
from an unused root meaning to superintend; a prefect of a province:--prince, ruler.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
sâgân
1) ruler, prefect, governor, a subordinate ruler
1a) prefects (of Assyria and Babylon)
1b) petty rulers or officials
Part of Speech: noun masculine
Relation: from an unused root meaning to superintend
Usage:
This word is used 17 times:
Ezra 9:2: "with the people of those lands: yea, the hand of the princes and rulers hath been chief in this"
Nehemiah 2:16: " And the rulers knew not whither I went, or what I did;"
Nehemiah 2:16: "it to the Jews, nor to the priests, nor to the nobles, nor to the rulers, nor to the rest that did the work."
Nehemiah 4:14: "unto the nobles, and to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, Be not"
Nehemiah 4:19: "unto the nobles, and to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, The work"
Nehemiah 5:7: "and I rebuked the nobles, and the rulers, and said unto them, Ye exact usury,"
Nehemiah 5:17: "a hundred and fifty of the Jews and rulers, beside those that came unto us from among"
Nehemiah 7:5: "to gather together the nobles, and the rulers, and the people, that they might be reckoned by genealogy. And I found a register"
Nehemiah 12:40: "of God, and I, and the half of the rulers with"
Nehemiah 13:11: "Then contended I with the rulers, and said, Why is the house of God forsaken?"
Isaiah 41:25: "from the rising of the sun shall he call upon my name: and he shall come upon princes as upon mortar,"
Jeremiah 51:23: "and his yoke of oxen; and with thee will I break in pieces captains and rulers."
Jeremiah 51:28: "the captains thereof, and all the rulers thereof, and all the land of his dominion."
Jeremiah 51:57: "her princes, and her wise men, her captains, and her rulers, and her mighty men: and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep,"
Ezekiel 23:6: "Which were clothed with blue, captains and rulers, all of them desirable young men, horsemen"
Ezekiel 23:12: "the Assyrians her neighbors, captains and rulers clothed most gorgeously, horsemen"
Ezekiel 23:23: "with them: all of them desirable young men, captains and rulers, great lords and renowned,"
