נָגַהּ
nagah · shine, illuminate
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H5050 · appears 6 times in the Bible
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nagah (נָגַהּ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “shine, illuminate”.
To shine, to be bright; to make something shine, to give light.
How to say it
na·gah
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
- Shine, gleam; give light.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- lights up ×2
- shine ×2
- has shone ×1
- shed ×1
Related words
Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- 2 Samuel 22:29
For you are my lamp, YHWH, and YHWH lights up my darkness.
- Job 18:5
Also the light of the wicked is extinguished, and the spark of his fire does not shine.
- Job 22:28
You will decide a matter, and it will be established for you, and on your ways light will shine.
- Psalms 18:28
For you light my lamp, YHWH; my Elohim lights up my darkness.
- Isaiah 9:2
The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; those who dwelt in a land of the shadow of death, light has shone on them.
- Isaiah 13:10
For the stars of the heavens and their constellations will not flash forth their light; the sun will be darkened at its rising, and the moon will not shed its light.