Strong's Definition
a primitive root; to flaunt, i.e. raise a flag; figuratively, to be conspicuous
KJV Usage: (set up, with) banners, chiefest
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
דָּגַל (da.gal) — to look. 1) to look, behold 1a) (Qal) looked at, conspicuous (participle)
דָּגַל (da.gal) — to set a banner. 1) to carry a banner or standard, set up banner or standard 1a)(Qal) to set up standard (in battle) 1b) (Niphal) supplied with banners, bannered
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
verb · דֶּגֶל
Arrange | verb qal
to array oneself with banners = action by which a group divides itself into smaller groups, organized with the help of banners
Soldiers | verb nif
army with banners = group of soldiers wielding banners; ≈ considered a beautiful, though frightening, sight
Great | verb qal
to be prominent, to stand out = to possess more of a certain quality than one's peers and therefore stand out among them; ◄ compared to a banner, which, when one looks at an army, is prominently visible
1 PSA 20:6 DCH suggests a possible alternative, "wait upon", from a proposed root דגל II, "look, wait upon" 2 SNG 6:4 · SNG 6:10 Most versions and scholars interpret נִּדְגָּלֹות as deriving from דֶגֶל "banner". Another possibility takes דגל as meaning "look' (HALOT | DCH) and the pt. pass. as "sight"; the arguments are well presented by Gerleman, Ruth/Hohelied, p. 182–83 (cf. also Zakovitch, Das Hohelied, p.232–33). If נִּדְגָּלֹות is taken as pointing to the stars (REB CEV), than the meaning here would be "majestic as the stars". In this case, the lexical domain would be "Universe > Intense", and the contextual domain "Beauty | Nature > Human".
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
[דָּגַל] vb. look, behold Ct 5:10 ref
[דָּגַל] vb. denom. carry, or set up standard, banner Qal set up standard in battle
Niph. bannered, supplied with standards
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