Brightness
נֹ֫גַהּStrong’s H5051nogah (no-gah)
Appears in 19 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Nogah is the Hebrew word usually translated “brightness”, “from brightness” and “brightness their”. It appears in 19 verses of the Old Testament.
“Through the brightness before him were coals of fire kindled.”
Meaning
- Brightness
How it's translated
- and brightness 4
- from brightness 3
- brightness 3
- brightness their 2
- and brightness of 1
- to brightness of 1
- and for brightness 1
- like brightness 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 5
- Ezekiel 5
- 2 Samuel 2
- Joel 2
- Habakkuk 2
- Psalms 1
8 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 2 Samuel 23:4And he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, even a morning without clouds; as the tender grass springing out of the earth by clear shining after rain.
- Psalms 18:12At the brightness that was before him his thick clouds passed, hail stones and coals of fire.
- Proverbs 4:18But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
- Isaiah 4:5And the LORD will create upon every dwelling place of mount Zion, and upon her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night: for upon all the glory shall be a defence.
- Isaiah 50:10Who is among you that feareth the LORD, that obeyeth the voice of his servant, that walketh in darkness, and hath no light? let him trust in the name of the LORD, and stay upon his God.
- Isaiah 60:3And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising.
Hebrew dictionary
נֹ֫גַהּ nogah · brightness
brightness Aramaic equivalent: no.gah (נֹ֫גַהּ "daylight" H5053)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “brightness” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BRIGHTNESS, noun
briteness. Splendor; luster; glitter.
- Acuteness, applied to the faculties; sharpness of wit; as the brightness of a man's parts.
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.