נְקָמָה
nᵉqâmâh · H5360 · Hebrew · 27 occurrences
Meanings
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vengeance
Action in which humans or deities harm (other) humans in return for an injury or wrong and so find relief from their anger
ExamplesJudges 11:36 So she said to him, “My father, you have given your word to the LORD; do to me just as you have said, since the LORD has brought you vengeance on your enemies, the sons of Ammon.”
2 Samuel 4:8 Then they brought the head of Ish-bosheth to David at Hebron, and said to the king, “Behold, the head of Ish-bosheth the son of Saul, your enemy, who sought your life; so the LORD has given my lord the king vengeance this day on Saul and his descendants.”
2 Samuel 22:48 The God who executes vengeance for me, And brings down peoples under me,
How it’s used In 8 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
16 occurrences in 9 groups
- יְהֹוָהthe LORD, YHWH 4
- יmy 3
- Other words · 7 groups that occur once or twice (9) 9
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- גָּדוֹלgreat, large 1
Named alongside itApposition
4 occurrences in 1 groups
- נְקָמָהvengeance 4
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- יָדַעto know 1
What is done to itIt is the object
17 occurrences in 7 groups
- נָתַןto give, to put, to set 6
- עָשָׂהto do, to make 3
- רָאָהto see 3
- נָקַםto avenge 2
- יָדַעto know 1
- לָקַחto take, to receive 1
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- הוּאhe, she, it 2
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- בin/on/with 2
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
4 occurrences in 3 groups
- אֵלGod, god 2
- יוֹםday, time 1
- עֵתtime, moment, period 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
- ἐκδίκησις ekdíkēsis · G1557 · to give someone justice, to pay back, to revenge
- Greek ἐκδίκησις renders Hebrew נְקָמָה across divine and human retributive contexts with strong semantic overlap; both denote vindication/vengeance as judicial recompense.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Chastise002003002005
- The word is another abstract noun for vengeance or retribution, sharing its core sense with its verbal and nominal cognates for punishing a wrongdoer.
- Relief002001002023
- The word's vengeance sense likewise ties it to the resolution a wronged party experiences once retribution is exacted, a broader emotional-outcome sense than the bare concept of punishment.
Word family 3 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H5360. neqamah נְקָמָה noun feminine vengeance (on formation compare LagBN 143); — ׳נ Jer…
נְקָמָה noun feminine vengeance (on formation compare LagBN 143); — ׳נ Jer 46:10 Jer 46:3t.; construct נִקְמַת Num 31:2 Num 31:7t.; suffix נִקְמָתִי Eze 25:14 Eze 25:7t. suffixes; plural נְקָמוֺת Jdg 11:36 Jdg 11:5t.; נְקָמֹת 2Sa 22:48; —
1 vengeance of God, absolute Eze 25:14; נ ׳נקם Jer 51:36; נִקְמַת דַּם Psa 79:10; נְקָמוֺת אֵל Psa 94:1 (twice in verse); נ ׳עֵת Jer 51:6; נ ׳יוֺם Jer 46:10; ׳נ יהוה Jer 50:15, Jer 50:28; Jer 51:11; ׳נ הֵיכָלוֺ Jer 50:28; Jer 51:11; with בְּ of adversary, נ ׳נתן Eze 25:14, Eze 25:17; נ ׳עשׂה Eze 25:17; with מִן of adversary נ ׳נתן 2Sa 4:8 נ ׳עשׂה Jdg 11:36; מֵהֶם נִקְמָֽתְךָ Jer 11:20; Jer 20:12; with לְ whom נ ׳נתן 2Sa 22:48 = Psa 18:48.
2 of Israel and its chiefs נ ׳נקם מן Num 31:2 (P); with ני ׳נתן ׳בְ, Num 31:3 (P); נ ׳עשׂה Psa 149:7.
3 enemies of Israel absolute Lam 3:60; בנקמה עשׂה; Eze 25:15; of Jeremiah מ ׳לקח מן Jer 20:10.
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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