Bible Names

Segub: meaning of the name

Segub means “fortified; raised.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Segub in Hebrew and Greek

שְׂגוּב H7687

Sᵉgûwb (seg-oob') — Segub, the name of two Israelites

from H7682 (שָׂגַב); aloft;

People named Segub in the Bible

Segub in Scripture

“Segub” appears in 3 verses of the King James Version.

  • 1 Kings 16:34

    In his days did Hiel the Beth–elite build Jericho: he laid the foundation thereof in Abiram his firstborn, and set up the gates thereof in his youngest son Segub, according to the word of the Lord, which he spake by Joshua the son of Nun.

  • 1 Chronicles 2:21

    And afterward Hezron went in to the daughter of Machir the father of Gilead, whom he married when he was threescore years old; and she bare him Segub.

  • 1 Chronicles 2:22

    And Segub begat Jair, who had three and twenty cities in the land of Gilead.