Hebrew noun (feminine) · H4046
מַגֵּפָה
maggephahmag-gay-faw'
plague
25 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: maggêphâh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H4046is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 9 of 39Old Testament books
- 17spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H4046
a pestilence; by analogy, defeat
The King James renders it: ([idiom] be) plague(-d), slaughter, stroke.
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
maggephah is rendered "plague". It stands 25 times in the Hebrew text, across nine books.
- Eight of the uses stand in Numbers, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Exodus 9:14Otherwise, I will send all My plagues against you and your officials and your people, so you may know that there is no one like Me in all the earth.
- The Greek text spells it seventeen different ways.
The first use
Otherwise, I will send all My plagues against you and your officials and your people, so you may know that there is no one like Me in all the earth.
Exodus 9:14מַגֵּפֹתַי֙
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Eight of the word's twenty-five uses are in Numbers.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- the plague10
- by the plague3
- a plague2
- a slaughter2
- a blow1
- and the plague1
- like the plague1
- plague of1
- plagues my1
- the slaughter1
- to a plague1
- with a blow1
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.
The words it stands beside
All 25, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
17 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
- הַמַּגֵּפָ֖ה5
- מַגֵּפָ֥ה3
- הַמַּגֵּפָ֗ה2
- הַמַּגֵּפָֽה׃2
- בְּמַגֵּפָ֑ה1
- בַּמַּגֵּפָ֖ה1
- בַּמַּגֵּפָ֔ה1
- בַּמַּגֵּפָ֑ה1
- הַמַּגֵּפָ֔ה1
- הַמַּגֵּפָ֧ה1
- וְהַמַּגֵּפָ֖ה1
- כַּמַּגֵּפָ֖ה1
and 5 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singular11HTd/Ncfsa
- noun · feminine singular5HNcfsa
- preposition with the article + noun · feminine singular4HRd/Ncfsa
- preposition + noun · feminine singular2HR/Ncfsa
- conjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singular1HC/Td/Ncfsa
- noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular1HNcfpc/Sp1bs
- noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HNcfsc
Exodus
one use
Otherwise, I will send all My plagues against you and your officials and your people, so you may know that there is no one like Me in all the earth.
- מַגֵּפֹתַי֙magefotainoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: plagues my
Numbers
eight uses
those men who had brought out the bad report about the land—were struck down by a plague before the LORD.
- בַּמַּגֵּפָ֖הbamagefahpreposition with the article + noun · feminine singulartagged: by the plague
He stood between the living and the dead, and the plague was halted.
- הַמַּגֵּפָֽה׃hamagefahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the plague
But those who died from the plague numbered 14,700, in addition to those who had died on account of Korah.
- בַּמַּגֵּפָ֔הbamagefahpreposition with the article + noun · feminine singulartagged: by the plague
Then Aaron returned to Moses at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting, since the plague had been halted.
- וְהַמַּגֵּפָ֖הvehammagefahconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: and the plague
followed the Israelite into his tent, and drove the spear through both of them—through the Israelite and on through the belly of the woman. So the plague against the Israelites was halted,
- הַמַּגֵּפָ֔הhamagefahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the plague
but those who died in the plague numbered 24,000.
- בַּמַּגֵּפָ֑הbamagefahpreposition with the article + noun · feminine singulartagged: by the plague
For they assailed you deceitfully when they seduced you in the matter of Peor and their sister Cozbi, the daughter of the Midianite leader, the woman who was killed on the day the plague came because of Peor.”
- הַמַּגֵּפָ֖הhamagefahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the plague
“Look, these women caused the sons of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to turn unfaithfully against the LORD at Peor, so that the plague struck the congregation of the LORD.
- הַמַּגֵּפָ֖הhamagefahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the plague
1 Samuel
two uses
The messenger answered, “Israel has fled before the Philistines, and there has been a great slaughter among the people. Your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, are both dead, and the ark of God has been captured.”
- מַגֵּפָ֥הmagefahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a slaughter
“What guilt offering should we send back to Him?” asked the Philistines. “Five gold tumors and five gold rats,” they said, “according to the number of rulers of the Philistines, since the same plague has struck both you and your rulers.
- מַגֵּפָ֥הmagefahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a plague
2 Samuel
four uses
Surely by now he is hiding in a cave or some other location. If some of your troops fall first, whoever hears of it will say, ‘There has been a slaughter among the troops who follow Absalom.’
- מַגֵּפָ֔הmagefahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a slaughter
There the people of Israel were defeated by David’s servants, and the slaughter was great that day—twenty thousand men.
- הַמַּגֵּפָ֧הhamagefahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the slaughter
“Why has my lord the king come to his servant?” Araunah said. “To buy your threshing floor,” David replied, “that I may build an altar to the LORD, so that the plague upon the people may be halted.”
- הַמַּגֵּפָ֖הhamagefahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the plague
And there he built an altar to the LORD and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. Then the LORD answered the prayers on behalf of the land, and the plague upon Israel was halted.
- הַמַּגֵּפָ֖הhamagefahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the plague
1 Chronicles
two uses
And David said to God, “Was it not I who gave the order to count the people? I am the one who has sinned and acted wickedly. But these sheep, what have they done? O LORD my God, please let Your hand fall upon me and my father’s house, but do not let this plague remain upon Your people.”
- לְמַגֵּפָֽה׃ סlemagefahpreposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: to a plague
Then David said to Ornan, “Grant me the site of this threshing floor, that I may build an altar to the LORD. Sell it to me for the full price, so that the plague upon the people may be halted.”
- הַמַּגֵּפָ֖הhamagefahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the plague
2 Chronicles
one use
So behold, the LORD is about to strike your people, your sons, your wives, and all your possessions with a serious blow.
- מַגֵּפָ֥הmagefahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a blow
Psalms
two uses
So they provoked the LORD to anger with their deeds, and a plague broke out among them.
- מַגֵּפָֽה׃magefahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a plague
But Phinehas stood and intervened, and the plague was restrained.
- הַמַּגֵּפָֽה׃hamagefahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the plague
Ezekiel
one use
“Son of man, behold, I am about to take away the desire of your eyes with a fatal blow. But you must not mourn or weep or let your tears flow.
- בְּמַגֵּפָ֑הbemagefahpreposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: with a blow
Zechariah
four uses
And this will be the plague with which the LORD strikes all the peoples who have warred against Jerusalem: Their flesh will rot while they stand on their feet, their eyes will rot in their sockets, and their tongues will rot in their mouths.
- הַמַּגֵּפָ֗הhamagefahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the plague
And a similar plague will strike the horses and mules, camels and donkeys, and all the animals in those camps.
- מַגֵּפַ֣תmagefatnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: plague of
- כַּמַּגֵּפָ֖הkamagefahpreposition with the article + noun · feminine singulartagged: like the plague
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.
- הַמַּגֵּפָ֗הhamagefahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the plague
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 words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.