nogah · brightness

What it means

nogah (נֹגַהּ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “brightness”.

Shining: the light of fire, of dawn, of the sun, or of the presence of God.

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. The radiance of light or of God.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Related words

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

Where it appears

• 2 Samuel×2
• Psalms×1
• Proverbs×1
• Isaiah×5
• Ezekiel×5
• Joel×2
• Amos×1
• Habakkuk×2

• 2 Samuel 22:13

  From the brightness before him coals of fire blazed.

• 2 Samuel 23:4

  is like the light of morning when the sun rises, a morning without clouds; from the brightness, from the rain, springs vegetation from the earth.’

• Psalms 18:12

  From the brightness before him his clouds passed, hail and coals of fire.

• Proverbs 4:18

  But the path of the righteous is like the light of brightness, going on and shining until full day.

• Isaiah 4:5

  And YHWH will create over the whole site of Mount Zion and over her convocations a cloud by day and smoke and the brightness of a flaming fire by night; for over all the glory there will be a canopy.

• Isaiah 50:10

  Who among you fears YHWH, listens to the voice of his servant? He who walks in darkness and has no brightness, let him trust in the name of YHWH, and lean on his Elohim.

• Isaiah 60:3

  And nations will walk to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising.

• Isaiah 60:19

  The sun will no longer be your light by day, nor for brightness will the moon give you light; but YHWH will be your eternal light, and your Elohim will be your beauty.

• Isaiah 62:1

  For the sake of Zion I will not keep silent, and for the sake of Jerusalem I will not be quiet, until her righteousness goes out like brightness, and her salvation like a torch that burns.

• Ezekiel 1:4

  And I looked, and look, a storm wind coming from the north, a great cloud and a fire enfolding itself, and brightness around it, and in its midst something like the gleam of shining metal, in the midst of the fire.

• Ezekiel 1:13

  And as for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like burning coals of fire, like the appearance of torches; it moved back and forth among the living creatures, and the fire had brightness, and from the fire went out lightning.

• Ezekiel 1:27

  And I saw something like the gleam of shining metal, like the appearance of fire enclosing it all around, from the appearance of his loins and upward; and from the appearance of his loins and downward I saw something like the appearance of fire, and there was brightness around him.

• Ezekiel 1:28

  Like the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud on the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness all around. That was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of YHWH. And I saw it, and I fell on my face, and I heard the voice of one speaking.

• Ezekiel 10:4

  And the glory of YHWH rose from upon the cherub to the threshold of the house, and the house was filled with the cloud, and the court was full of the brightness of the glory of YHWH.

• Joel 2:10

  Before it the earth quakes, the heavens shake; sun and moon grow dark, and the stars withdraw their brightness.

• Joel 3:15

  Sun and moon grow dark, and the stars withdraw their brightness.

• Amos 5:20

  Is not the day of YHWH darkness, and not light, and gloom, with no brightness in it?

• Habakkuk 3:4

  And his brightness is like the light; rays from his hand are his, and there is the hiding place of his strength.

• Habakkuk 3:11

  The sun, the moon stood still in their lofty dwelling; at the light of your arrows they go to and fro, at the brightness of the lightning of your spear.