נֶגֶף
negeph · H5063 · Hebrew · 7 occurrences
Meanings
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a stone to stumble over
A stone positioned so that the foot of travellers may come into forcible contact with it, which may result in stumbling and injury, usually used figuratively to denote sustaining any kind of hardship in life
ExamplesIsaiah 8:14 “Then He will become a sanctuary; But to both houses of Israel, He will be a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense, And a snare and a trap for the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
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plague
Literally: heavy blow serious harm, injury, or epidemic affecting a large group of people; invariably seen as punishment from God
ExamplesExodus 12:13 ‘The blood shall be a sign for you on the houses where you live; and when I see the blood I will pass over you, and no plague will come upon you to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt.
Exodus 30:12 “When you take a census of the sons of Israel to count them, then each one of them shall give a ransom for himself to the LORD, when you count them, so that there will be no plague among them when you count them.
Numbers 8:19 “And I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron and to his sons from among the sons of Israel, to perform the service of the sons of Israel at the tent of meeting and to make atonement on behalf of the sons of Israel, so that there will be no affliction among the sons of Israel due to their approaching the sanctuary.”
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
What it doesIt is the subject
6 occurrences in 2 groups
- הָיָהto be, to become 4
- חָלַלto profane, to begin 2
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- אֶבֶןstone 1
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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In the other Testament 1 word
- πληγή plēgḗ · G4127 · to hit, to strike, to beat
- Greek πληγή (plēgḗ, G4127) serves as the standard LXX rendering for Hebrew נֶגֶף (negeph, H5063), both denoting a destructive blow or plague as divine judgment, with Greek πληγή carrying slightly broader extension to any wound or stroke beyond specifically plague contexts.
Semantic domains 1 entry
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- נֶגֶף denotes a plague or blow, the noun form of the striking described by the related verb נָגַף (nâgaph, H5062), used of a plague sent as divine judgment (as in the plague following David's census, 2 Samuel 24), tying the word to an inflicted, often fatal affliction.
Word family 3 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H5063. negeph נֶ֫גֶף noun masculineExo 12:13 blow, striking (as judgment, only P); — ׳נ…
נֶ֫גֶף noun masculineExo 12:13 blow, striking (as judgment, only P); — ׳נ absolute Exo 12:13 Exo 12:6t.; —
1 fatal blow, plague, Exo 12:13 (death of first-born); Exo 30:12; Num 8:19 (indefinite); = pestilence Num 17:11; Num 17:12; Jos 22:17.
2 striking, נ ׳אֶבֶן Isa 8:14 i.e. against which the foot strikes and so stumbles (|| מִכְשׁוֺל צוּר).
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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