meditation; word; groaning; separation
(same as Hegai)
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
HEGAI or HEGE (Est_2:8; Est_2:15; Est_2:3).A eunuch of Abasuerus, and keeper of the women, to whom the maidens were entrusted before they were brought in to the king.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
(Est_2:3; Est_2:8; Est_2:15.) Eunuch, or chamberlain, in charge of the women of Ahasuerus' harem. Akin to the Sanskrit aja, "eunuch". Hegias is mentioned by the pagan Ctesias as of Xerxes' ("Ahasuerus") court.
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
Hega'i. (eunuch). One of the eunuchs, of the court of Ahasuerus. Est_2:8; Est_2:15. (B.C. 474).
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
Hegai
(Heb. Hegay', הֵגִי, perh. eunuch, Est_2:8; Est_2:15; Sept. Τα,Vulg. Egeus) or He'ge (Heb. id. הֵגֶא idem, Est_2:3; Sept. omits, Vulg. Egeus), the eunuch having charge of the harem of Xerxes, and the preparation of the females sought as concubines for him. B.C. 479. Winer (Wörterbuch s.v.) thinks he may be the same with Hegias ( ῾Ηγίας), who is mentioned by Ctesias (Perseus, 24) as present at the check of the Persian army at Thermopylae.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.