Plague
מַגֵּפָהStrong’s H4046maggephah (mag-ge-phah)
Appears in 25 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Maggephah is the Hebrew word usually translated “plague”, “slaughter” and “plagues my”. It appears in 25 verses of the Old Testament.
“And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.”
Meaning
- Blow, slaughter, plague, pestilence, strike, smiteblow (fatal stroke) · slaughter (of battle) · plague, pestilence (divine judgment)
How it's translated
- the plague 11
- by the plague 2
- a slaughter 2
- a plague 2
- plagues my 1
- by plague 1
- and the plague 1
- the slaughter 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Numbers 9
- 2 Samuel 4
- Zechariah 3
- 1 Samuel 2
- 1 Chronicles 2
- Psalms 2
9 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Zechariah 14:15In contextAnd so shall be the plague of the horse, of the mule, of the camel, and of the ass, and of all the beasts that shall be in these tents, as this plague.
- Zechariah 14:18In contextAnd if the family of Egypt go not up, and come not, that have no rain; there shall be the plague, wherewith the LORD will smite the heathen that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles.
- Exodus 9:14For I will at this time send all my plagues upon thine heart, and upon thy servants, and upon thy people; that thou mayest know that there is none like me in all the earth.
- Numbers 14:37Even those men that did bring up the evil report upon the land, died by the plague before the LORD.
- Numbers 16:48And he stood between the dead and the living; and the plague was stayed.
- Numbers 16:49Now they that died in the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred, beside them that died about the matter of Korah.
Hebrew dictionary
מַגֵּפָה maggephah · plague
1) blow, slaughter, plague, pestilence, strike, smite 1a) blow (fatal stroke) 1b) slaughter (of battle) 1c) plague, pestilence (divine judgment)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “plague” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
PLAGUE, noun
plag. [Latin plaga, a stroke; Gr. See Lick and Lay. The primary sense is a stroke or striking. So afflict is from the root of flog, and probably of the same family as plague ]
- Any thing troublesome or vexatious; but in this sense, applied to the vexations we suffer from men, and not to the unavoidable evils inflicted on us by Divine Providence.
- A pestilential disease; an acute, malignant and contagious disease that often prevails in Egypt, Syria and Turkey, and has at times infected the large cities of Europe with frightful mortality.
- A state of misery.
- Any great natural evil or calamity; as the ten plagues of Egypt.
All definitions and other forms of “plague”
PLAGUE, verb transitive
plag.
- To infest with disease, calamity or natural evil of any kind.
- To vex; to tease; to harass; to trouble; to embarrass; a very general and indefinite signification.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.