Goring
נַגָּחStrong’s H5056naggach (nag-gach)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Naggach is the Hebrew word usually translated “prone to gore”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“But if the ox were wont to push with his horn in time past, and it hath been testified to his owner, and he hath not kept him in, but that he hath killed a man or a woman; the ox shall be stoned, and his owner also shall be put to death.”
Meaning
- Addicted to goring, apt to gore
How it's translated
- prone to gore 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Exodus 2
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Hebrew dictionary
נַגָּח naggach · goring
addicted to goring, apt to gore
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “goring” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
GO'RING, participle present
tense [from gore.] Stabbing; piercing.
All definitions and other forms of “goring”
GO'RING, noun
A pricking; puncture.
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.