Hebrew noun (masculine) · H5359
נָקָם
naqamnaw-kawm'
vengeance
17 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: nâqâm
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H5359is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 8 of 39Old Testament books
- 8spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H5359
revenge
The King James renders it: [phrase] avenged, quarrel, vengeance.
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
naqam is rendered "vengeance". It stands 17 times in the Hebrew text, across eight books.
- Six of the uses stand in Isaiah, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Leviticus 26:25And I will bring a sword against you to execute the vengeance of the covenant. Though you withdraw into your cities, I will send a plague among you, and you will be delivered into the hand of the enemy.
- The Greek text spells it eight different ways.
The first use
And I will bring a sword against you to execute the vengeance of the covenant. Though you withdraw into your cities, I will send a plague among you, and you will be delivered into the hand of the enemy.
Leviticus 26:25נְקַם־
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Six of the word's seventeen uses are in Isaiah.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- vengeance14
- vengeance of2
- and vengeance1
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| נָקָה | naqah | to clear | Uses44 |
The words it stands beside
All 17, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
8 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
- נָקָ֖ם5
- נָקָם֙4
- נָקָ֣ם2
- נְקַם־2
- וְנָקָם֙1
- נָקָ֑ם1
- נָקָ֔ם1
- נָקָֽם׃1
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine singular14HNcmsa
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)2HNcmsc
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular1HC/Ncmsa
Leviticus
one use
And I will bring a sword against you to execute the vengeance of the covenant. Though you withdraw into your cities, I will send a plague among you, and you will be delivered into the hand of the enemy.
- נְקַם־nekam-noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: vengeance of
Deuteronomy
three uses
Vengeance is Mine; I will repay. In due time their foot will slip; for their day of disaster is near, and their doom is coming quickly.”
- נָקָם֙nakamnoun · masculine singulartagged: vengeance
when I sharpen My flashing sword, and My hand grasps it in judgment, I will take vengeance on My adversaries and repay those who hate Me.
- נָקָם֙nakamnoun · masculine singulartagged: vengeance
Rejoice, O heavens, with Him, and let all God’s angels worship Him. Rejoice, O nations, with His people; for He will avenge the blood of His children. He will take vengeance on His adversaries and repay those who hate Him; He will cleanse His land and His people.
- וְנָקָם֙venakamconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and vengeance
Judges
one use
Then Samson called out to the LORD: “O Lord GOD, please remember me. Strengthen me, O God, just once more, so that with one vengeful blow I may pay back the Philistines for my two eyes.”
- נְקַם־nekam-noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: vengeance of
Psalms
one use
The righteous will rejoice when they see they are avenged; they will wash their feet in the blood of the wicked.
- נָקָ֑םnakamnoun · masculine singulartagged: vengeance
Proverbs
one use
For jealousy enrages a husband, and he will show no mercy in the day of vengeance.
- נָקָֽם׃nakamnoun · masculine singulartagged: vengeance
Isaiah
six uses
For the LORD has a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.
- נָקָ֖םnakamnoun · masculine singulartagged: vengeance
Say to those with anxious hearts: “Be strong, do not fear! Behold, your God will come with vengeance. With divine retribution He will come to save you.”
- נָקָ֣םnakamnoun · masculine singulartagged: vengeance
Your nakedness will be uncovered and your shame will be exposed. I will take vengeance; I will spare no one.”
- נָקָ֣םnakamnoun · masculine singulartagged: vengeance
He put on righteousness like a breastplate, and the helmet of salvation on His head; He put on garments of vengeance and wrapped Himself in a cloak of zeal.
- נָקָם֙nakamnoun · masculine singulartagged: vengeance
to proclaim the year of the LORD’s favor and the day of our God’s vengeance, to comfort all who mourn,
- נָקָ֖םnakamnoun · masculine singulartagged: vengeance
For the day of vengeance was in My heart, and the year of My redemption had come.
- נָקָ֖םnakamnoun · masculine singulartagged: vengeance
Ezekiel
three uses
In order to stir up wrath and take vengeance, I have placed her blood on the bare rock, so that it would not be covered.’
- נָקָ֔םnakamnoun · masculine singulartagged: vengeance
This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Because Edom acted vengefully against the house of Judah, and in so doing incurred grievous guilt,
- נָקָ֖םnakamnoun · masculine singulartagged: vengeance
This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Because the Philistines acted in vengeance, taking vengeance with malice of soul to destroy Judah with ancient hostility,
- נָקָם֙nakamnoun · masculine singulartagged: vengeance
Micah
one use
I will take vengeance in anger and wrath upon the nations that have not obeyed Me.”
- נָקָ֖םnakamnoun · masculine singulartagged: vengeance
The letters
Gematria 190· 750 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 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.
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.