רָגַל
râgal · raw-gal'
to walk along; but only in specifically, applications, to reconnoiter, to be atale-bearer (i.e. slander); to lead about
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root; also as denominative from H7272 (רֶגֶל)
to walk along; but only in specifically, applications, to reconnoiter, to be atale-bearer (i.e. slander); to lead about
- to walk along
- but only in specifically, applications, to reconnoiter, to be atale-bearer (i.e. slander)
- to lead about
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: backbite, search, slander, (e-) spy (out), teach to go, view.
Letters
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
- גGimel3
Picture: throwing stick (or camel)
- Concrete
- staff · throw stick · camel · foot
- Extended
- to carry · to gather up · walking · pride lifted up
- לLamed30
Picture: shepherd's staff or goad
- Concrete
- staff · goad · yoke · cattle prod
- Extended
- authority · to lead · to teach · to bind · toward
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
the head, the highest › to carry, to lift up › authority, the one who leads
The head, the highest that works to carry, to lift up of authority, the one who leads.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of רָגַל 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
25 occurrences · 25 OT · 0 NT · 20 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- to spy out4 · 16%
- to spy2 · 8%
- spies2 · 8%
- unto them, ye are spies1 · 4%
- are no spies1 · 4%
- ye are spies1 · 4%
- surely ye are spies1 · 4%
- us for spies1 · 4%
- men; we are no spies1 · 4%
- that ye are no spies1 · 4%
- and searched it out1 · 4%
- that had spied out1 · 4%
- that were spies1 · 4%
- and view1 · 4%
- and viewed1 · 4%
- to espy out1 · 4%
- and to spy it out1 · 4%
- and he hath slandered1 · 4%
- and to spy out1 · 4%
- he that backbiteth1 · 4%
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.