נֶגַע
negaʻ · neh'-gah
a blow (figuratively, infliction); also (by implication) a spot (concretely, a leprous person or dress)
Lexicon
Derivation: from H5060 (נָגַע);
a blow (figuratively, infliction); also (by implication) a spot (concretely, a leprous person or dress)
- a blow (figuratively, infliction)
- also, (by implication) a spot (concretely, a leprous person or dress)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: plague, sore, stricken, stripe, stroke, wound.
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
- עAyin70
Picture: an eye
- Concrete
- eye · spring of water
- Extended
- to see · to know · experience · to watch
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
the seed, life continuing › to carry, to lift up › to see and know
The seed, life continuing that works to carry, to lift up that works to see and know.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of נֶגַע 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
78 occurrences · 78 OT · 0 NT · 33 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- and, behold, if the plague7 · 13%
- on the plague6 · 11%
- the plague6 · 11%
- and the plague4 · 7%
- it is a plague4 · 7%
- in the plague2 · 4%
- up him that hath the plague2 · 4%
- that hath the plague2 · 4%
- it is the plague2 · 4%
- wherein the plague2 · 4%
- and if the plague2 · 4%
- if the plague2 · 4%
- and, behold, the plague2 · 4%
- plagues1 · 2%
- plague1 · 2%
- like the plague1 · 2%
- when the plague1 · 2%
- of him that hath the plague1 · 2%
- him: and, behold, if the plague1 · 2%
- have a plague1 · 2%
- sore1 · 2%
- of the sore1 · 2%
- his plague1 · 2%
- in whom the plague1 · 2%
- also that the plague1 · 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.