H7695 H7695
royal consorts, wives—concubines or secondary wives of Persian kings (Aramaic)
This Aramaic noun refers to royal consorts or wives, appearing exclusively in Daniel 5 during Belshazzar's feast. The term distinguishes these women from primary queens, likely referring to secondary wives or concubines in the Persian royal harem. Belshazzar's act of bringing them to drink from Jerusalem's temple vessels (Daniel 5:2-3, 23) compounds the sacrilege, showing contempt for sacred objects by using them in a debauched royal party.
Senses
1. sense 1 — All three uses are in Daniel 5, describing the royal women summoned to Belshazzar's profane feast. Spanish 'esposas' (wives) and similar translations appear, though the term specifically denotes consorts rather than the queen mother (who arrives separately in 5:10). The repetition across verses 2, 3, and 23 emphasizes the deliberate, escalating sacrilege of defiling temple vessels at a feast involving these secondary royal wives. 3×
AR["زَوْجَاتُكَ", "زَوْجَاتُهُ"]·ben["তাঁর-রানীরা", "তোমার-রানীরা"]·DE["[שגלתה]", "[שגלתך]"]·EN["his-wives", "your-wives"]·FR["[שגלתה]", "[שגלתך]"]·heb["שגלותיו", "שגלותיך"]·HI["उसकी-रानियां", "तेरी-रानियां"]·ID["permaisuri-permaisurimu", "permaisuri-permaisurinya"]·IT["[שגלתה]", "[שגלתך]"]·jav["para-garwa-panjenengan", "para-garwanipun"]·KO["그-의-비빈들", "당신-의-비빈들-과"]·PT["suas-esposas", "tuas-esposas"]·RU["жёны-его", "жёны-твои"]·ES["sus-esposas", "tus-esposas"]·SW["wake-zake", "wake-zako"]·TR["karıları", "karıların"]·urd["اُس-کی-بیویاں", "اُس-کی-بیویوں", "تیری-بیویاں"]
Related Senses
H0376 1. man, person, human male (2130×)H0251 1. brother (blood sibling) (573×)H0120 1. man, human being (individual/generic) (527×)H0802 1. woman, female person (519×)H0802 2. wife, spouse (255×)H0517 1. mother, female parent (217×)G0435 1. man, male person (202×)G1135 1. woman, adult female (190×)H2233 1. offspring, descendants (172×)H0001 2. ancestor, forefather (146×)H5288 1. Youth, young man (122×)H0269 1. sister (female sibling) (113×)H1755 1. generation, contemporaries (96×)G5043 1. child, offspring (89×)G0444 2. people, humankind (86×)H3206 1. child, boy, youth (86×)H2145 1. male (human being) (79×)G3384 1. mother (77×)H6485a 1. Qal passive participle: numbered ones, enrollment (76×)H1397 1. man (strong/mighty) (65×)
BDB / Lexicon Reference
† [שֵׁגָל] n.f. (royal) consort (cf. BH id.; √ unknown HptGu Ezr-Ne, p. 66 conj. Assyrian šigrêti, harem-women);—pl. sf. שֵֽׁגְלָתָךְ Dn 5:23, שֵֽׁגְלָתֵהּ v 2, 3.