חַג
chag · festival
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H2282 · appears 62 times in the Bible
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chag (חַג) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “festival”.
In honor of God, with pilgrimage.
How to say it
chag
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
- A celebration for YHWH, going to his sanctuary.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
Word study
Feast: a celebration for YHWH, above all the three pilgrimage feasts at which every male was to appear before him. It comes from the verb חָגַג (keep a feast).
- The three feasts of the year Deuteronomy 16:16Exodus 23:16
- The Feast of Unleavened Bread and the Passover Leviticus 23:6Exodus 12:14
- The Feast of Booths Leviticus 23:341 Kings 8:2
- False or rejected feasts Exodus 32:51 Kings 12:32Amos 5:21
- “The feast of YHWH in Shiloh” Judges 21:19
Historical and cultural background
“Three times in the year all your males shall appear before YHWH”: at the Feast of Unleavened Bread, at the Feast of Weeks and at the Feast of Booths (Deuteronomy 16:16). Jeroboam held a festival in the eighth month, “like the festival that {was} in Judah”, so that the people would not go up to Jerusalem (1 Kings 12:32).
How we translate it
“Feast” 49 times and “feasts” 6; “festival” 6 (“celebrate it as a festival to YHWH”, Exodus 12:14; the festival Jeroboam devised, 1 Kings 12:32). It is distinct from מוֹעֵד, which this edition renders “appointed time”. The names are fixed: “the Feast of Booths”, “the Feast of Weeks”, “the Feast of Unleavened Bread” (Deuteronomy 16:16).
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- Feast ×49
- feasts ×6
- festival ×6
- festivals ×1
Related words
Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Exodus×12
- Leviticus×4
- Numbers×2
- Deuteronomy×7
- Judges×1
- 1 Kings×5
- 2 Chronicles×9
- Ezra×2
- Nehemiah×2
- Psalms×2
- Isaiah×2
- Ezekiel×5
- Hosea×2
- Amos×2
- Nahum×1
- Zechariah×3
- Malachi×1
- Exodus 10:9
Moses said, “With our young and with our old we will go; with our sons and with our daughters, with our flocks and with our herds we will go, for we have a feast of YHWH.”
- 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 13:6
Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there shall be a festival to YHWH.
- Exodus 23:15
The feast of Unleavened Bread you shall keep: seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the appointed time of the month of Abib, for in it you came out of Egypt. And none shall appear before me empty-handed.
- Exodus 23:16
And the feast of Harvest, of the firstfruits of your labors that you sow in the field; and the feast of Ingathering at the going out of the year, when you gather in your labors from the field.
- Exodus 23:18
You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread, and the fat of my feast shall not remain until morning.
- Exodus 32:5
When Aaron saw it, he built an altar before it; and Aaron proclaimed and said, “A feast to YHWH tomorrow!”
- Exodus 34:18
The Feast of Unleavened Bread you shall keep: seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the appointed time of the month of Abib, for in the month of Abib you came out from Egypt.
- Exodus 34:22
And the Feast of Weeks you shall observe for yourself, the first fruits of the harvest of wheat, and the Feast of Ingathering at the turn of the year.
- Exodus 34:25
You shall not slaughter the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread, and the sacrifice of the Feast of Passover shall not remain overnight until the morning.
- Leviticus 23:6
And on the fifteenth day of this month is the Feast of Unleavened Bread to YHWH; seven days you shall eat unleavened bread.
- Leviticus 23:34
“Speak to the sons of Israel, saying: On the fifteenth day of this seventh month is the Feast of Booths, seven days to YHWH.
- 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 28:17
And on the fifteenth day of this month is a feast; for seven days unleavened bread shall be eaten.
- 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 16:10
And you shall celebrate the Feast of Weeks to YHWH your Elohim, with the measure of the freewill offering of your hand that you give, as YHWH your Elohim blesses you.
- Deuteronomy 16:13
The Feast of Booths you shall celebrate for yourself seven days, when you gather in from your threshing floor and from your winepress.
- Deuteronomy 16:14
And you shall rejoice in your feast, you and your son and your daughter, your male slave and your female slave, and the Levite, the resident alien, the orphan, and the widow who are within your gates.
- Deuteronomy 16:16
Three times in the year all your males shall appear before YHWH your Elohim in the place that he chooses: at the Feast of Unleavened Bread, at the Feast of Weeks, and at the Feast of Booths. And none shall appear before YHWH empty-handed;
- Deuteronomy 31:10
And Moses commanded them, saying, “At the end of every seven years, at the appointed time of the year of release, at the Feast of Booths,
- Judges 21:19
And they said, “Look, there is the feast of YHWH in Shiloh from year to year, which is north of Bethel, on the east of the highway that goes up from Bethel to Shechem, and south of Lebonah.”
- 1 Kings 8:2
And all the men of Israel assembled to King Solomon in the month of Ethanim, at the feast, that is the seventh month.
- 1 Kings 8:65
And Solomon celebrated at that time the feast, and all Israel with him, a great assembly, from the entrance of Hamath to the brook of Egypt, before YHWH our Elohim, seven days and seven days, fourteen days.
- 1 Kings 12:32
Jeroboam held a festival in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like the festival that was in Judah, and he went up to the altar. So he did in Bethel, sacrificing to the calves that he had made; and he stationed in Bethel the priests of the high places that he had made.
- 1 Kings 12:33
He went up to the altar that he had made in Bethel on the fifteenth day in the eighth month, in the month that he had devised from his heart; and he held a festival for the sons of Israel, and went up to the altar to offer up in smoke.
- 2 Chronicles 5:3
All the men of Israel assembled before the king at the feast, that is, the seventh month.
- 2 Chronicles 7:8
Solomon celebrated the feast at that time seven days, and all Israel with him, a very great assembly, from the entrance of Hamath to the Brook of Egypt.
- 2 Chronicles 7:9
On the eighth day they held a solemn assembly, for they had held the dedication of the altar seven days, and the feast seven days.
- 2 Chronicles 8:13
according to what was due each day, offering up according to the commandment of Moses, on the Sabbaths, at the new moons, and at the appointed times, three times a year: at the Feast of Unleavened Bread, at the Feast of Weeks, and at the Feast of Booths.
- 2 Chronicles 30:13
Many people gathered in Jerusalem to celebrate the Feast of Unleavened Bread in the second month, a very large assembly.
- 2 Chronicles 30:21
The sons of Israel who were present in Jerusalem celebrated the Feast of Unleavened Bread seven days with great joy, and the Levites and the priests were praising YHWH day by day, with instruments of strength to YHWH.
- 2 Chronicles 35:17
The sons of Israel who were present celebrated the Passover at that time, and the Feast of Unleavened Bread seven days.
- Ezra 3:4
And they celebrated the Feast of Booths, as it is written, and the burnt offering day by day by number, according to the rule, what was due each day on its day;
- Ezra 6:22
And they celebrated the Feast of Unleavened Bread seven days with joy, for YHWH had made them joyful and had turned the heart of the king of Assyria toward them, to strengthen their hands in the work of the house of Elohim, the Elohim of Israel.
- Nehemiah 8:14
And they found written in the law that YHWH had commanded by the hand of Moses that the sons of Israel should live in booths during the feast in the seventh month,
- Nehemiah 8:18
And he read in the book of the law of Elohim day after day, from the first day until the last day. And they celebrated the feast seven days, and on the eighth day there was a solemn assembly, according to the rule.
- Psalms 81:3
Blow the horn at the new moon, at the full moon, on the day of our feast.
- Psalms 118:27
El is YHWH, and he has given us light; bind the victim of the festival with cords up to the horns of the altar.
- Isaiah 29:1
Woe, Ariel, Ariel, town where David encamped! Add year to year; let the feasts go around.
And 22 more times.