hē´gā̇-ı̄, hē´ge (×—×’×™, heÌ„ghay; ΓαΐÌ, GaÄ±Ì (, ), and ×”×’×, heÌ„gheÌ„', Hege ()): One of the officers of the Persian king Ahasuerus; a chamberlain or eunuch (keeper of women), into whose custody the “fair young virgins†were delivered from whom the king intended to choose his queen in the place of the discredited Vashti.