Plague
נֶ֫גֶףStrong’s H5063negeph (ne-geph)
Appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Negeph is the Hebrew word usually translated “plague” and “striking”. It appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt.”
Meaning
- Blow, striking, plagueblow, plague (fatal) · striking
How it's translated
- a plague 3
- the plague 3
- striking 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Numbers 3
- Exodus 2
- Joshua 1
- Isaiah 1
4 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 30:12When thou takest the sum of the children of Israel after their number, then shall they give every man a ransom for his soul unto the LORD, when thou numberest them; that there be no plague among them, when thou numberest them.
- Numbers 8:19And I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron and to his sons from among the children of Israel, to do the service of the children of Israel in the tabernacle of the congregation, and to make an atonement for the children of Israel: that there be no plague among the children of Israel, when the children of Israel come nigh unto the sanctuary.
- Numbers 16:46And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a censer, and put fire therein from off the altar, and put on incense, and go quickly unto the congregation, and make an atonement for them: for there is wrath gone out from the LORD; the plague is begun.
- Numbers 16:47And Aaron took as Moses commanded, and ran into the midst of the congregation; and, behold, the plague was begun among the people: and he put on incense, and made an atonement for the people.
- Joshua 22:17Is the iniquity of Peor too little for us, from which we are not cleansed until this day, although there was a plague in the congregation of the LORD,
- Isaiah 8:14And he shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
Hebrew dictionary
נֶ֫גֶף negeph · plague
1) blow, striking, plague 1a) blow, plague (fatal) 1b) striking
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “plague” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
PLAGUE, noun
plag. [Latin plaga, a stroke; Gr. See Lick and Lay. The primary sense is a stroke or striking. So afflict is from the root of flog, and probably of the same family as plague ]
- Any thing troublesome or vexatious; but in this sense, applied to the vexations we suffer from men, and not to the unavoidable evils inflicted on us by Divine Providence.
- A pestilential disease; an acute, malignant and contagious disease that often prevails in Egypt, Syria and Turkey, and has at times infected the large cities of Europe with frightful mortality.
- A state of misery.
- Any great natural evil or calamity; as the ten plagues of Egypt.
All definitions and other forms of “plague”
PLAGUE, verb transitive
plag.
- To infest with disease, calamity or natural evil of any kind.
- To vex; to tease; to harass; to trouble; to embarrass; a very general and indefinite signification.
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.