To gore
נָגַחStrong’s H5055nagach (na-gach)
Appears in 10 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Nagach is the Hebrew word usually translated “it will gore”, “gore” and “we gore”. It appears in 10 verses of the Old Testament.
“I saw the ram pushing westward, and northward, and southward; so that no beasts might stand before him, neither was there any that could deliver out of his hand; but he did according to his will, and became great.”
Meaning
- To push, thrust, gore(Qal) to gore · (Piel) to push or thrust at · (Hithpael) to engage in thrusting, wage war
How it's translated
- it will gore 4
- you will gore 2
- he will gore 1
- we gore 1
- you thrust at 1
- thrusting 1
- he will wage war 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Exodus 3
- Daniel 2
- Deuteronomy 1
- 1 Kings 1
- 2 Chronicles 1
- Psalms 1
7 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 11:40In contextAnd at the time of the end shall the king of the south push at him: and the king of the north shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.
- Exodus 21:28If an ox gore a man or a woman, that they die: then the ox shall be surely stoned, and his flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the ox shall be quit.
- Exodus 21:31Whether he have gored a son, or have gored a daughter, according to this judgment shall it be done unto him.
- Exodus 21:32If the ox shall push a manservant or a maidservant; he shall give unto their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned.
- Deuteronomy 33:17His glory is like the firstling of his bullock, and his horns are like the horns of unicorns: with them he shall push the people together to the ends of the earth: and they are the ten thousands of Ephraim, and they are the thousands of Manasseh.
- 1 Kings 22:11And Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made him horns of iron: and he said, Thus saith the LORD, With these shalt thou push the Syrians, until thou have consumed them.
Hebrew dictionary
נָגַח nagach · to gore
1) to push, thrust, gore 1a) (Qal) to gore 1b) (Piel) to push or thrust at 1c) (Hithpael) to engage in thrusting, wage war
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “gore” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
GORE, noun
[Gr. from issuing.]
- Blood; but generally, thick or clotted blood; blood that after effusion becomes inspissated.
- Dirt; mud. [Unusual.]
All definitions and other forms of “gore”
GORE, noun
- A wedge-shaped or triangular piece of cloth sewed into a garment to widen it in any part.
- A slip or triangular piece of land.
- In heraldry, an abatement denoting a coward.
GORE, verb transitive
- To stab; to pierce; to penetrate with a pointed instrument, as a spear.
- To pierce with the point of a horn.“If an ox gore a man or a woman--” Exodus 21:28
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.