Brightness
נְגֹהָהStrong’s H5054negohah (ne-go-hah)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Negohah is the Hebrew word usually translated “gleams of light”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth justice overtake us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness.”
Meaning
- Brightness
How it's translated
- for gleams of light 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
נְגֹהָה negohah · brightness
brightness
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.