To shine
נָגַהּStrong’s H5050nagah (na-gah)
Appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Nagah is the Hebrew word usually translated “lightens”, “it will shine” and “it shines”. It appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament.
“For thou art my lamp, O LORD: and the LORD will lighten my darkness.”
Meaning
- To shine(Qal) to shine · (Hiphil)
How it's translated
- he lightens 2
- it will shine 2
- it shines 1
- it will make shine 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 2
- Isaiah 2
- 2 Samuel 1
- Psalms 1
4 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Job 18:5Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.
- Job 22:28Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee: and the light shall shine upon thy ways.
- Psalms 18:28For thou wilt light my candle: the LORD my God will enlighten my darkness.
- Isaiah 9:2The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.
- Isaiah 13:10For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.
Hebrew dictionary
נָגַהּ nagah · to shine
1) to shine 1a) (Qal) to shine 1b) (Hiphil) 1b1) to enlighten 1b2) to cause to shine
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “shine” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SHINE, verb intransitive
[If s is a prefix, this word accords with the root of Latin canus, caneo.
- To emit rays of light; to give light; to beam with steady radiance; to exhibit lightness or splendor; as, the sun shines by day; the moon shines by night.
- To be bright; to be lively and animated; to be brilliant.
- To be unclouded; as, the moon shines.
- To be glossy or bright, as silk.
All definitions and other forms of “shine”
- To be gay or splendid.
- To be beautiful.
- To be eminent, conspicuous or distinguished; as, to shine in courts.
- To give light, real or figurative.
- To manifest glorious excellencies.
- To be clearly published.
- To be conspicuously displayed; to be manifest.“Let your light so shine before men-” Matthew 5:16
SHINE, noun
- Fair weather.
- Brightness; splendor; luster; gloss.
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.