נָגַד
nâgad · naw-gad'
properly, to front, i.e. stand boldly out opposite; by implication (causatively), to manifest; figuratively, to announce (always by word of mouth to one present); specifically, to expose, predict, explain, praise
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root;
properly, to front, i.e. stand boldly out opposite; by implication (causatively), to manifest; figuratively, to announce (always by word of mouth to one present); specifically, to expose, predict, explain, praise
- properly, to front, i.e. stand boldly out opposite
- by implication, (causatively), to manifest
- figuratively, to announce (always by word of mouth to one present)
- specifically, to expose, predict, explain, praise
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: bewray, [idiom] certainly, certify, declare(-ing), denounce, expound, [idiom] fully, messenger, plainly, profess, rehearse, report, shew (forth), speak, [idiom] surely, tell, utter.
Letters
- נNun50
Picture: a sprouting seed, or a fish in water
- Concrete
- seed · sprout · fish · offspring
- Extended
- life · continuation · heir · to perpetuate
- גGimel3
Picture: throwing stick (or camel)
- Concrete
- staff · throw stick · camel · foot
- Extended
- to carry · to gather up · walking · pride lifted up
- דDalet4
Picture: tent door hanging down
- Concrete
- door · curtain · entrance
- Extended
- a way in or out · moving back and forth · a path · hanging
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
the seed, life continuing › to carry, to lift up › the doorway, the way in
The seed, life continuing that works to carry, to lift up of the doorway, the way in.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of נָגַד 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
371 occurrences · 371 OT · 0 NT · 179 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- and told35 · 20%
- told20 · 12%
- tell19 · 11%
- and it was told18 · 10%
- declare12 · 7%
- and they told10 · 6%
- to shew6 · 3%
- and tell5 · 3%
- alone to tell4 · 2%
- to tell4 · 2%
- that told4 · 2%
- and shewed3 · 2%
- and shew3 · 2%
- but he told3 · 2%
- he told3 · 2%
- shewed3 · 2%
- declared3 · 2%
- and shall declare3 · 2%
- had told3 · 2%
- then they told2 · 1%
- that he told2 · 1%
- and hast not told2 · 1%
- that he may declare2 · 1%
- and one told2 · 1%
- that it was told2 · 1%
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.