Word

הֶגֶה

hegeh · H1899 · Hebrew · 3 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. rumble, murmur, sigh

    Action by which living creatures produce inarticulate sounds

    Examples

    Job 37:2 “Listen closely to the thunder of His voice, And the rumbling that goes out from His mouth.

    Psalm 90:9 For all our days have dwindled away in Your fury; We have finished our years like a sigh.

    Ezekiel 2:10 When He spread it out before me, it was written on the front and back, and written on it were songs of mourning, sighing, and woe.

How it’s used In 2 roles

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1 occurrences in 1 groups

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

2 occurrences in 2 groups

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Near synonyms 1 word
אֲנָחָה ʼănâchâh · H585 · sighing, groaning, moaning
Both words denote audible expressions of distress or sorrow, such as sighs, groans, and the sounds of mourning, and could substitute in context.
Semantic domains 1 entry
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הֶגֶה names a low sound or murmur, whether the mourning wail described in Isaiah or the muttering tale referenced elsewhere, tied to the same root as הָגָה's meditative muttering.
Word family 4 words
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H1899. hegeh הֶ֫גֶה noun masculineJob 37:2 a rumbling, growling, moaning: — ׳ה absolute…
H1899. hegeh
הֶ֫גֶה noun masculineJob 37:2 a rumbling, growling, moaning: — ׳ה absolute Eze 2:10 Eze 2:2t.; —
1 a rumbling, growling sound ׳וְה יֵצֵא מִמִּיו Job 37:2 of thunder, as sound going forth from God's mouth.
2 a moaning וָה ׳קִינִים וָהִי Eze 2:10 lamentations and moaning and woe.
3 a sigh or moan, as transient, כְמוֺהֶֿ֑גֶה שָׁנֵינוּ כִּלִּינוּ Psa 90:9 we bring our years to an end as a sign, i.e. a fleeting sound (compare RVm VB).

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0

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