magefa · plague

What it means

magefa (מַגֵּפָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “plague”.

A blow with which God punishes; also defeat in battle.

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. An epidemic sent as punishment.
2. A defeat in battle.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• plague ×22
• slaughter ×3
• plagues ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Exodus×1
• Numbers×9
• 1 Samuel×2
• 2 Samuel×4
• 1 Chronicles×2
• 2 Chronicles×1
• Psalms×2
• Ezekiel×1
• Zechariah×4

• Exodus 9:14

  For this time I am sending all my plagues against your heart, and on your servants and on your people, so that you may know that there is no one like me in all the earth.

• Numbers 14:37

  the men who brought out a bad report of the land died by the plague before YHWH.

• Numbers 16:48

  And he stood between the dead and the living, and the plague was stopped.

• Numbers 16:49

  And those who died in the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred, besides those who died because of Korah.

• Numbers 16:50

  Then Aaron returned to Moses at the entrance of the tent of meeting, and the plague was stopped.

• Numbers 25:8

  He went after the man of Israel into the alcove and pierced both of them, the man of Israel and the woman, through her belly. And the plague was held back from the sons of Israel.

• Numbers 25:9

  Those who died in the plague were twenty-four thousand.

• Numbers 25:18

  for they are harassing you with their deceptions with which they deceived you in the matter of Peor and in the matter of Cozbi, daughter of a chief of Midian, their sister, who was struck on the day of the plague on account of Peor.”

• Numbers 26:1

  It happened after the plague that YHWH said to Moses and to Eleazar son of Aaron the priest, saying,

• Numbers 31:16

  Look, they were, for the sons of Israel, by the word of Balaam, the cause of committing unfaithfulness against YHWH in the matter of Peor, and the plague came on the community of YHWH.

• 1 Samuel 4:17

  And the one who brought the news answered and said, “Israel has fled before the Philistines, and also there has been a great slaughter among the people, and also your two sons are dead, Hophni and Phinehas, and the ark of Elohim has been taken.”

• 1 Samuel 6:4

  And they said, “What is the guilt offering that we shall restore to him?” And they said, “By the number of the lords of the Philistines, five gold tumors and five gold mice, for one plague was on all of them and on your lords.

• 2 Samuel 17:9

  Look, now he is hidden in one of the pits or in one of the places; and it will be, when some fall among them at the first, that whoever hears will say, ‘There has been a slaughter among the people who follow after Absalom.’

• 2 Samuel 18:7

  The people of Israel were struck down there before the servants of David, and the slaughter there was great on that day: twenty thousand.

• 2 Samuel 24:21

  Araunah said, “Why has my lord the king come to his servant?” David said, “To buy from you the threshing floor, to build an altar to YHWH, so that the plague may be stopped from the people.”

• 2 Samuel 24:25

  David built there an altar to YHWH and offered up burnt offerings and peace offerings. And YHWH heeded the plea for the land, and the plague was stopped from Israel.

• 1 Chronicles 21:17

  David said to Elohim, “Was it not I who said to count the people? It is I who have sinned and done great evil; but these sheep, what have they done? YHWH my Elohim, please let your hand be against me and against the house of my father, but not against your people, for a plague.”

• 1 Chronicles 21:22

  David said to Ornan, “Give me the site of the threshing floor, that I may build on it an altar to YHWH. Give it to me for the full price, so that the plague may be held back from the people.”

• 2 Chronicles 21:14

  look, YHWH is going to strike with a great plague your people, your sons, your wives, and all your goods;

• Psalms 106:29

  And they provoked him to anger with their deeds, and a plague broke out among them.

• Psalms 106:30

  Then Phinehas stood up and intervened, and the plague was stopped.

• Ezekiel 24:16

  “Son of man, look, I am taking from you the delight of your eyes with a plague; and you shall not lament, and you shall not weep, and your tears shall not come.

• Zechariah 14:12

  And this will be the plague with which YHWH will strike all the peoples that have waged war against Jerusalem: his flesh will waste away while he stands on his feet, and his eyes will waste away in their sockets, and his tongue will waste away in their mouth.

• Zechariah 14:15

  And so will be the plague of the horse, the mule, the camel, and the donkey, and of all the livestock that may be in those camps: like this plague.

• 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.

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