Hebrew verb · H2287
חָגַג
chagagkhaw-gag'
to celebrate
16 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: châgag
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H2287is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 8 of 39Old Testament books
- 13spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H2287
properly, to move in acircle, i.e. (specifically) to march in asacred procession, to observe afestival; by implication, to be giddy
The King James renders it: celebrate, dance, (keep, hold) a (solemn) feast (holiday), reel to and fro.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
chagag is rendered "to celebrate". It stands 16 times in the Hebrew text, across eight books.
- Four of the uses stand in Exodus, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Exodus 5:1After that, Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Let My people go, so that they may hold a feast to Me in the wilderness.’”
- The Greek text spells it thirteen different ways.
The first use
After that, Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Let My people go, so that they may hold a feast to Me in the wilderness.’”
Exodus 5:1וְיָחֹ֥גּוּ
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Four of the word's sixteen uses are in Exodus.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- and you will celebrate a festival3
- you will celebrate a festival3
- to celebrate a festival2
- and celebrating1
- and to celebrate a festival1
- celebrate a festival1
- celebrating a festival1
- so they may celebrate a festival1
- they staggered1
- you will celebrate as a festival1
- you will celebrate as a festival it1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| חָגַר | chagar | to gird | Uses44 |
All 16, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
13 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- וְחַגֹּתֶ֥ם2
- לָחֹ֖ג2
- תָּחֹ֥גּוּ2
- וְחֹ֣גְגִ֔ים1
- וְחַגֹּתֶ֤ם1
- וְיָחֹ֥גּוּ1
- וְלָחֹ֖ג1
- חָגִּ֧י1
- חוֹגֵֽג׃1
- יָח֣וֹגּוּ1
- תָּחֹ֥ג1
- תָּחֹג֙1
and 1 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- Hc/Vqq2mp3Hc/Vqq2mp
- preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)2HR/Vqcc
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine plural2HVqi2mp
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singular2HVqi2ms
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)1HC/R/Vqcc
- conjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural1HC/Vqrmpa
- HC/Vqu3mp1HC/Vqu3mp
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine plural + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1HVqi2mp/Sp3ms
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural1HVqi3mp
- verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular1HVqrmsa
- verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person feminine singular1HVqv2fs
Exodus
four uses
After that, Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Let My people go, so that they may hold a feast to Me in the wilderness.’”
- וְיָחֹ֥גּוּveyachoguHC/Vqu3mptagged: so they may celebrate a festival
And this day will be a memorial for you, and you are to celebrate it as a feast to the LORD, as a permanent statute for the generations to come.
- וְחַגֹּתֶ֥םvechagotemHc/Vqq2mptagged: and you will celebrate a festival
- תְּחָגֻּֽהוּ׃techaguhuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine plural + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: you will celebrate as a festival it
Three times a year you are to celebrate a feast to Me.
- תָּחֹ֥גtachogverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will celebrate a festival
Leviticus
three uses
On the fifteenth day of the seventh month, after you have gathered the produce of the land, you are to celebrate a feast to the LORD for seven days. There shall be complete rest on the first day and also on the eighth day.
- תָּחֹ֥גּוּtachoguverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you will celebrate a festival
You are to celebrate this as a feast to the LORD for seven days each year. This is a permanent statute for the generations to come; you are to celebrate it in the seventh month.
- וְחַגֹּתֶ֤םvechagotemHc/Vqq2mptagged: and you will celebrate a festival
- תָּחֹ֥גּוּtachoguverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you will celebrate as a festival
Numbers
one use
On the fifteenth day of the seventh month, you are to hold a sacred assembly; you must not do any regular work, and you shall observe a feast to the LORD for seven days.
- וְחַגֹּתֶ֥םvechagotemHc/Vqq2mptagged: and you will celebrate a festival
Deuteronomy
one use
For seven days you shall celebrate a feast to the LORD your God in the place He will choose, because the LORD your God will bless you in all your produce and in all the work of your hands, so that your joy will be complete.
- תָּחֹג֙tachogverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will celebrate a festival
1 Samuel
one use
So he led David down, and there were the Amalekites spread out over all the land, eating, drinking, and celebrating the great amount of plunder they had taken from the land of the Philistines and the land of Judah.
- וְחֹ֣גְגִ֔יםvechogegimconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: and celebrating
Psalms
two uses
These things come to mind as I pour out my soul: how I walked with the multitude, leading the procession to the house of God with shouts of joy and praise.
- חוֹגֵֽג׃chogegverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: celebrating a festival
They reeled and staggered like drunkards, and all their skill was useless.
- יָח֣וֹגּוּyachoguverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they staggered
Nahum
one use
Look to the mountains—the feet of one who brings good news, who proclaims peace! Celebrate your feasts, O Judah; fulfill your vows. For the wicked will never again march through you; they will be utterly cut off.
- חָגִּ֧יchagiverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: celebrate a festival
Zechariah
three uses
Then all the survivors from the nations that came against Jerusalem will go up year after year to worship the King, the LORD of Hosts, and to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles.
- וְלָחֹ֖גvelachogconjunction (“and”) + preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: and to celebrate a festival
And if the people of Egypt will not go up and enter in, then the rain will not fall on them; this will be the plague with which the LORD strikes the nations who do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles.
- לָחֹ֖גlachogpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to celebrate a festival
This will be the punishment of Egypt and of all the nations that do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles.
- לָחֹ֖גlachogpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to celebrate a festival
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.