Moment
רֶ֫גַעStrong’s H7281rega (re-ga)
Appears in 22 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Rega is the Hebrew word usually translated “moment”, “moments” and “like a moment”. It appears in 22 verses of the Old Testament.
“For the LORD had said unto Moses, Say unto the children of Israel, Ye are a stiffnecked people: I will come up into the midst of thee in a moment, and consume thee: therefore now put off thy ornaments from thee, that I may know what to do unto thee.”
Meaning
- A moment
- For a moment, at one moment...at another moment
- In a moment
How it's translated
- a moment 12
- to moments 4
- like a moment 3
- and in a moment 1
- for a moment 1
- and a moment 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 5
- Job 4
- Psalms 3
- Jeremiah 3
- Numbers 2
- Ezekiel 2
9 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Numbers 16:21Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment.
- Numbers 16:45Get you up from among this congregation, that I may consume them as in a moment. And they fell upon their faces.
- Ezra 9:8And now for a little space grace hath been shewed from the LORD our God, to leave us a remnant to escape, and to give us a nail in his holy place, that our God may lighten our eyes, and give us a little reviving in our bondage.
- Job 7:18And that thou shouldest visit him every morning, and try him every moment?
- Job 20:5That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?
- Job 21:13They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave.
Hebrew dictionary
רֶ֫גַע rega · moment
1) a moment adv 2) for a moment, at one moment...at another moment with prep 3) in a moment
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “moment” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
MO'MENT, noun
[Latin momentum. This word is contracted from motamentum, or some other word, the radical verb of which signified to move, rush, drive or fall suddenly, which sense gives that of force. The sense of an instant of time is from falling or rushing, which accords well with that of meet.]
- The most minute and indivisible part of time; an instant.“In a moment in the twinkling of an eye” 1 Corinthians 15:52
- Force; impulsive power.
- Importance in influence or effect; consequence; weight or value.
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.