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Vengeance

נְקָמָהStrong’s H5360

neqamah (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.”
Numbers 31:2 KJV
Meaning
  1. 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.

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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.