חַג
chag · khag
a festival, or a victim therefor
Lexicon
Derivation: or חָג; from H2287 (חָגַג);
a festival, or a victim therefor
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: (solemn) feast (day), sacrifice, solemnity.
Letters
- חHet8
Picture: courtyard wall or enclosure
- Concrete
- wall · fence · tent wall
- Extended
- to separate · protection · the inside vs. the outside · private
- גGimel3
Picture: throwing stick (or camel)
- Concrete
- staff · throw stick · camel · foot
- Extended
- to carry · to gather up · walking · pride lifted up
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to separate and protect › to carry, to lift up
To separate and protect that works to carry, to lift up.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of חַג above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
62 occurrences · 62 OT · 0 NT · 35 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- the feast13 · 23%
- a feast6 · 11%
- and the feast5 · 9%
- in the feast4 · 7%
- and in the feast4 · 7%
- of the feast3 · 5%
- it a feast2 · 4%
- is the feast2 · 4%
- for we must hold a feast1 · 2%
- shall be a feast1 · 2%
- of my sacrifice1 · 2%
- is a feast1 · 2%
- shall be the feast1 · 2%
- in thy feast1 · 2%
- behold, there is a feast1 · 2%
- at the feast1 · 2%
- like unto the feast1 · 2%
- even in the feast1 · 2%
- also the feast1 · 2%
- on our solemn feast1 · 2%
- the sacrifice1 · 2%
- sacrifices1 · 2%
- solemnity1 · 2%
- in the feasts1 · 2%
- the like in the feast1 · 2%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.