Hebrew noun (masculine) · H5063
נֶגֶף
negephneh'-ghef
plague
7 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H5063is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 39Old Testament books
- 6spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H5063
a trip (of the foot); figuratively, an infliction (of disease)
The King James renders it: plague, stumbling.
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
negeph is rendered "plague". It stands 7 times in the Hebrew text, across four books.
- Three of the uses stand in Numbers, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Exodus 12:13The blood on the houses where you are staying will distinguish them; when I see the blood, I will pass over you. No plague will fall on you to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt.
- The Greek text spells it six different ways.
The first use
The blood on the houses where you are staying will distinguish them; when I see the blood, I will pass over you. No plague will fall on you to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt.
Exodus 12:13נֶ֙גֶף֙
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- a plague3
- the plague3
- striking1
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.
All 7, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
6 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
- הַנֶּ֖גֶף2
- הַנָּֽגֶף׃1
- נֶ֙גֶף֙1
- נֶ֖גֶף1
- נֶ֔גֶף1
- נֶ֠גֶף1
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine singular4HNcmsa
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular3HTd/Ncmsa
Exodus
two uses
The blood on the houses where you are staying will distinguish them; when I see the blood, I will pass over you. No plague will fall on you to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt.
- נֶ֙גֶף֙negefnoun · masculine singulartagged: a plague
“When you take a census of the Israelites to number them, each man must pay the LORD a ransom for his life when he is counted. Then no plague will come upon them when they are numbered.
- נֶ֖גֶףnegefnoun · masculine singulartagged: a plague
Numbers
three uses
And I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron and his sons from among the Israelites, to perform the service for the Israelites at the Tent of Meeting and to make atonement on their behalf, so that no plague will come against the Israelites when they approach the sanctuary.”
- נֶ֔גֶףnegefnoun · masculine singulartagged: a plague
Moses said to Aaron, “Take your censer, place fire from the altar in it, and add incense. Go quickly to the congregation and make atonement for them, because wrath has come out from the LORD; the plague has begun.”
- הַנָּֽגֶף׃hanagefthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the plague
So Aaron took the censer as Moses had ordered and ran into the midst of the assembly. And seeing that the plague had begun among the people, he offered the incense and made atonement for the people.
- הַנֶּ֖גֶףhanegefthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the plague
Joshua
one use
Was not the sin of Peor enough for us, from which we have not cleansed ourselves to this day? It even brought a plague upon the congregation of the LORD.
- הַנֶּ֖גֶףhanegefthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the plague
Isaiah
one use
And He will be a sanctuary—but to both houses of Israel a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense, to the dwellers of Jerusalem a trap and a snare.
- נֶ֠גֶףnegefnoun · masculine singulartagged: striking
The letters
Gematria 133· 853 mispar gadol
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.