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‖ Sagan Jewish Antiq.|ˈseɪgən|
Also 9 segan.
[Late (Talmudic) use of Heb. sāgān or ˈsegen (found only in pl. s⊇gānīm), Jewish Aram. s⊇gan, a. Assyrian shaknu prefect (of conquered city or province). In the Bible the word denotes only a civil governor.]
The deputy of the Jewish high-priest; the second highest functionary of the Temple.
In Biblical times this official seems to have been called ‘second priest’ (Heb. kōhēn hammishneh): see Jer. lii. 24.
1625T. Godwin Moses & Aaron i. (1641) 18 The High Priest and his Sagan, resembled our Bishop and his Suffragan. 1681Dryden Abs. & Achit. 866 With him the Sagan of Jerusalem, Of hospitable soul and noble stem. 1877C. Geikie Christ lx. (1879) 737 The ancient hierarchy as consisting of the high priest; his deputy, or Sagan: two suffragans of the Sagans, [etc.]. 1904Jewish Encycl. VI. 390/2 Every high priest had a ‘mishneh’ (a second) called the Segan, or ‘memunneh’, to stand at his right. |