chagag · keep a festival

What it means

chagag (חָגַג) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “keep a festival”.

Celebrate a festival in honor of God, with pilgrimage and joy; also reel, stagger.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To rejoice before YHWH on a holy day.
2. To reel like a drunkard.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• you shall celebrate ×7
• celebrate ×4
• They reeled ×1
• celebrating ×1
• keeping festival ×1
• they may hold a feast ×1
• you shall hold a feast ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Exodus×4
• Leviticus×3
• Numbers×1
• Deuteronomy×1
• 1 Samuel×1
• Psalms×2
• Nahum×1
• Zechariah×3

• Exodus 5:1

  Afterward Moses and Aaron came and said to Pharaoh, “Thus says YHWH, the Elohim of Israel: ‘Let my people go, that they may hold a feast for me in the wilderness.’”

• Exodus 12:14

  This day shall be for you a memorial, and you shall celebrate it as a festival to YHWH; throughout your generations, as a statute forever, you shall celebrate it.

• Exodus 23:14

  Three times in the year you shall hold a feast for me.

• Leviticus 23:39

  But on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you have gathered the produce of the land, you shall celebrate the feast of YHWH seven days; on the first day shall be a solemn rest, and on the eighth day shall be a solemn rest.

• Leviticus 23:41

  And you shall celebrate it as a feast to YHWH seven days in the year; it is a statute forever throughout your generations; in the seventh month you shall celebrate it.

• Numbers 29:12

  And on the fifteenth day of the seventh month you shall have a holy convocation; you shall not do any laborious work, and you shall celebrate a feast to YHWH seven days.

• Deuteronomy 16:15

  Seven days you shall celebrate the feast to YHWH your Elohim in the place that YHWH chooses, for YHWH your Elohim will bless you in all your produce and in all the work of your hands, and you shall be altogether joyful.

• 1 Samuel 30:16

  He brought him down, and look, they were spread out over the face of all the land, eating and drinking and celebrating because of all the great spoil that they had taken from the land of the Philistines and from the land of Judah.

• Psalms 42:4

  These things I remember, and I pour out within me my soul: how I would pass along with the throng; I would walk with them to the house of Elohim, with the voice of shouts of joy and thanksgiving, a multitude keeping festival.

• Psalms 107:27

  They reeled and staggered like a drunkard, and all their wisdom was swallowed up.

• Nahum 1:15

  Look, on the mountains the feet of the one who brings good news, who makes peace heard! Celebrate, Judah, your festivals; fulfill your vows; for the perverse one will not again pass through you; he is entirely cut off.

• Zechariah 14:16

  And it will happen that everyone who is left from all the nations that came against Jerusalem will go up year after year to bow down before the King, YHWH Tsevaot, and to celebrate the Feast of Booths.

• Zechariah 14:18

  And if the family of Egypt does not go up and does not come, there will be no rain on them; there will be the plague with which YHWH will strike the nations that do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Booths.

• Zechariah 14:19

  This will be the sin of Egypt and the sin of all the nations that do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Booths.

And 2 more times.