Hebrew noun (feminine) · H5360
נְקָמָה
neqamahnek-aw-maw'
vengeance
27 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: nᵉqâmâh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H5360is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 7 of 39Old Testament books
- 22spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H5360
avengement, whether the act of the passion
The King James renders it: [phrase] avenge, revenge(-ing), 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
neqamah is rendered "vengeance". It stands 27 times in the Hebrew text, across seven books.
- Eleven of the uses stand in Jeremiah, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Numbers 31:2“Take vengeance on the Midianites for the Israelites. After that, you will be gathered to your people.”
- The Greek text spells it twenty-two different ways.
The first use
“Take vengeance on the Midianites for the Israelites. After that, you will be gathered to your people.”
Numbers 31:2נִקְמַת֙
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Eleven of the word's twenty-seven uses are in Jeremiah.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- vengeance of8
- vengeances7
- vengeance3
- vengeance my3
- vengeance your3
- in vengeance1
- vengeance our1
- vengeance their1
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| נְקָרָה | neqarah | crevice | Uses2 |
The words it stands beside
All 27, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
22 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
- נְקָמ֣וֹת3
- נִקְמַת֙2
- נִקְמַ֖ת2
- נִקְמָֽתְךָ֙2
- בִּנְקָמָ֑ה1
- נְ֭קָמָה1
- נְקָמָה֙1
- נְקָמָ֥ה1
- נְקָמ֥וֹת1
- נְקָמ֛וֹת1
- נְקָמוֹת֙1
- נְקָמֹ֖ת1
and 10 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)8HNcfsc
- noun · feminine plural7HNcfpa
- noun · feminine singular3HNcfsa
- noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular3HNcfsc/Sp1bs
- noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular2HNcfsc/Sp2ms
- noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine plural1HNcfsc/Sp1bp
- noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singular1HNcfsc/Sp2fs
- noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural1HNcfsc/Sp3mp
- preposition + noun · feminine singular1HR/Ncfsa
Numbers
two uses
“Take vengeance on the Midianites for the Israelites. After that, you will be gathered to your people.”
- נִקְמַת֙nikmatnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: vengeance of
So Moses told the people, “Arm some of your men for war, that they may go against the Midianites and execute the LORD’s vengeance on them.
- נִקְמַת־nikmat-noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: vengeance of
Judges
one use
“My father,” she replied, “you have given your word to the LORD. Do to me as you have said, for the LORD has avenged you of your enemies, the Ammonites.”
- נְקָמ֛וֹתnekamotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: vengeances
2 Samuel
two uses
They brought the head of Ish-bosheth to David at Hebron and said to the king, “Here is the head of Ish-bosheth son of Saul, your enemy who sought your life. Today the LORD has granted vengeance to my lord the king against Saul and his offspring.”
- נְקָמוֹת֙nekamotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: vengeances
the God who avenges me and brings down nations beneath me,
- נְקָמֹ֖תnekamotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: vengeances
Psalms
five uses
the God who avenges me and subdues nations beneath me,
- נְקָמ֣וֹתnekamotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: vengeances
Why should the nations ask, “Where is their God?” Before our eyes, make known among the nations Your vengeance for the bloodshed of Your servants.
- נִ֝קְמַ֗תnikmatnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: vengeance of
O LORD, God of vengeance, O God of vengeance, shine forth.
- נְקָמ֥וֹתnekamotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: vengeances
- נְקָמ֣וֹתnekamotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: vengeances
to inflict vengeance on the nations and punishment on the peoples,
- נְ֭קָמָהnekamahnoun · feminine singulartagged: vengeance
Jeremiah
eleven uses
O LORD of Hosts, who judges righteously, who examines the heart and mind, let me see Your vengeance upon them, for to You I have committed my cause.
- נִקְמָֽתְךָ֙nikmatechanoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: vengeance your
For I have heard the whispering of many: “Terror is on every side! Report him; let us report him!” All my trusted friends watch for my fall: “Perhaps he will be deceived so that we may prevail against him and take our vengeance upon him.”
- נִקְמָתֵ֖נוּnikmatenunoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: vengeance our
O LORD of Hosts, who examines the righteous, who sees the heart and mind, let me see Your vengeance upon them, for to You I have committed my cause.
- נִקְמָֽתְךָ֙nikmatechanoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: vengeance your
For that day belongs to the Lord GOD of Hosts, a day of vengeance against His foes. The sword will devour until it is satisfied, until it is quenched with their blood. For the Lord GOD of Hosts will hold a sacrifice in the land of the north by the River Euphrates.
- נְקָמָה֙nekamahnoun · feminine singulartagged: vengeance
Raise a war cry against her on every side! She has thrown up her hands in surrender; her towers have fallen; her walls are torn down. Since this is the vengeance of the LORD, take out your vengeance upon her; as she has done, do the same to her.
- נִקְמַ֨תnikmatnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: vengeance of
Listen to the fugitives and refugees from the land of Babylon, declaring in Zion the vengeance of the LORD our God, the vengeance for His temple.
- נִקְמַת֙nikmatnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: vengeance of
- נִקְמַ֖תnikmatnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: vengeance of
Flee from Babylon! Escape with your lives! Do not be destroyed in her punishment. For this is the time of the LORD’s vengeance; He will pay her what she deserves.
- נְקָמָ֥הnekamahnoun · feminine singulartagged: vengeance
Sharpen the arrows! Fill the quivers! The LORD has aroused the spirit of the kings of the Medes, because His plan is aimed at Babylon to destroy her, for it is the vengeance of the LORD—vengeance for His temple.
- נִקְמַ֤תnikmatnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: vengeance of
- נִקְמַ֖תnikmatnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: vengeance of
Therefore this is what the LORD says: “Behold, I will plead your case and take vengeance on your behalf; I will dry up her sea and make her springs run dry.
- נִקְמָתֵ֑ךְnikmatekhnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: vengeance your
Lamentations
one use
You have seen all their malice, all their plots against me.
- נִקְמָתָ֔םnikmatamnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: vengeance their
Ezekiel
five uses
I will take My vengeance on Edom by the hand of My people Israel, and they will deal with Edom according to My anger and wrath. Then they will know My vengeance, declares the Lord GOD.’
- נִקְמָתִ֜יnikmatinoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: vengeance my
- נִקְמָתִ֔יnikmatinoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: vengeance my
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,
- בִּנְקָמָ֑הbinkamahpreposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: in vengeance
I will execute great vengeance against them with furious reproof. Then they will know that I am the LORD, when I lay My vengeance upon them.’”
- נְקָמ֣וֹתnekamotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: vengeances
- נִקְמָתִ֖יnikmatinoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: vengeance my
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.