Vengeance
נְקָמָהStrong’s H5360neqamah (ne-qa-mah)
Appears in 22 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Neqamah is the Hebrew word usually translated “vengeance”, “vengeance of” and “vengeance your”. It appears in 22 verses of the Old Testament.
“Avenge the children of Israel of the Midianites: afterward shalt thou be gathered unto thy people.”
Meaning
- Vengeancevengeance (by God, by Israel, by enemies of Israel)
How it's translated
- vengeance 10
- vengeance of 8
- vengeance your 3
- vengeance my 3
- vengeance our 1
- vengeance their 1
- in vengeance 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Jeremiah 9
- Psalms 4
- Ezekiel 3
- Numbers 2
- 2 Samuel 2
- Judges 1
7 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Numbers 31:3And Moses spake unto the people, saying, Arm some of yourselves unto the war, and let them go against the Midianites, and avenge the LORD of Midian.
- Judges 11:36And she said unto him, My father, if thou hast opened thy mouth unto the LORD, do to me according to that which hath proceeded out of thy mouth; forasmuch as the LORD hath taken vengeance for thee of thine enemies, even of the children of Ammon.
- 2 Samuel 4:8And they brought the head of Ishbosheth unto David to Hebron, and said to the king, Behold the head of Ishbosheth the son of Saul thine enemy, which sought thy life; and the LORD hath avenged my lord the king this day of Saul, and of his seed.
- 2 Samuel 22:48It is God that avengeth me, and that bringeth down the people under me,
- Psalms 18:47It is God that avengeth me, and subdueth the people under me.
- Psalms 79:10Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is their God? let him be known among the heathen in our sight by the revenging of the blood of thy servants which is shed.
Hebrew dictionary
נְקָמָה neqamah · vengeance
1) vengeance 1a) vengeance (by God, by Israel, by enemies of Israel)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “vengeance” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
VENGEANCE, noun
venj'ance. [Latin vindico.]
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.