nega · plague, blow

What it means

nega (נֶגַע) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “plague, blow”.

Stroke; also a mark of disease on the skin.

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. Something that strikes suddenly, sometimes sent by YHWH.
2. An odd patch on skin, clothing or a house.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Word study

A blow; from there plague, punishment, and in the laws, the sore or mark of a disease on the skin, on a garment or in a house. It comes from נָגַע, “touch” (H5060). BDB: a blow; figuratively, an infliction; also a spot, the mark of leprosy.

• Plagues: on Pharaoh and on Egypt Genesis 12:17Exodus 11:1
• The leprous sore on the skin Leviticus 13:2Deuteronomy 24:8
• The mark on a garment or in a house Leviticus 13:47Leviticus 14:34
• Blows of punishment 2 Samuel 7:14
• “The blow {was} for him” Isaiah 53:8Psalms 91:10

How we translate it

“Sore” 36 times, “mark” 29, “plague” 5, “blow” 4, “blows” 3. נֶגַע is “sore” on the skin (Leviticus 13:2) and “mark” on fabrics and houses (Leviticus 13:47; 14:34).

How it is translated

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

• sore ×36
• mark ×29
• plague ×5
• blow ×4
• blows ×3
• plagues ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Exodus×1
• Leviticus×61
• Deuteronomy×4
• 2 Samuel×1
• 1 Kings×2
• 2 Chronicles×2
• Psalms×4
• Proverbs×1
• Isaiah×1

• Genesis 12:17

  But YHWH struck Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram’s wife.

• Exodus 11:1

  YHWH said to Moses, “One more plague I will bring on Pharaoh and on Egypt; after that he will let you go from here. When he lets you go, he will drive you out from here completely.

• Leviticus 13:2

  “When a human being has on the skin of his body a swelling or an eruption or a bright spot, and it becomes on the skin of his body a leprous sore, he shall be brought to Aaron the priest or to one of his sons the priests.

• Leviticus 13:3

  The priest shall examine the sore on the skin of the body; and if the hair in the sore has turned white and the appearance of the sore is deeper than the skin of his body, it is a leprous sore; when the priest has examined him he shall declare him unclean.

• Leviticus 13:4

  But if the bright spot is white on the skin of his body and its appearance is not deeper than the skin, and its hair has not turned white, the priest shall isolate the one with the sore seven days.

• Leviticus 13:5

  The priest shall examine him on the seventh day, and if the sore has stayed as it was in his eyes and the sore has not spread in the skin, the priest shall isolate him seven days a second time.

• Leviticus 13:6

  The priest shall examine him on the seventh day a second time, and if the sore has faded and the sore has not spread in the skin, the priest shall declare him clean; it is an eruption; he shall wash his garments and be clean.

• Leviticus 13:9

  When a leprous sore is in a human being, he shall be brought to the priest.

• Leviticus 13:12

  And if the leprosy breaks out widely in the skin, and the leprosy covers all the skin of the one with the sore from his head to his feet, as far as the priest’s eyes can see,

• Leviticus 13:13

  the priest shall examine him, and if the leprosy has covered all his body, he shall declare clean the one with the sore; it has all turned white; he is clean.

• Leviticus 13:17

  The priest shall examine him, and if the sore has turned white, the priest shall declare clean the one with the sore; he is clean.

• Leviticus 13:20

  The priest shall examine it, and if its appearance is lower than the skin and its hair has turned white, the priest shall declare him unclean; it is a leprous sore; it has broken out in the ulcer.

• Leviticus 13:22

  And if it spreads widely in the skin, the priest shall declare him unclean; it is a sore.

• Leviticus 13:25

  the priest shall examine it, and if the hair in the bright spot has turned white and its appearance is deeper than the skin, it is leprosy; it has broken out in the burn, and the priest shall declare him unclean; it is a leprous sore.

• Leviticus 13:27

  The priest shall examine him on the seventh day; if it has spread widely in the skin, the priest shall declare him unclean; it is a leprous sore.

• Leviticus 13:29

  When a man or a woman has a sore on the head or on the beard,

• Leviticus 13:30

  the priest shall examine the sore, and if its appearance is deeper than the skin and there is in it yellowish thin hair, the priest shall declare him unclean; it is ringworm; it is leprosy of the head or of the beard.

• Leviticus 13:31

  But if the priest examines the sore of ringworm and, look, its appearance is not deeper than the skin and there is no black hair in it, the priest shall isolate the one with the sore of ringworm seven days.

• Leviticus 13:32

  The priest shall examine the sore on the seventh day, and if the ringworm has not spread and there has not been yellowish hair in it, and the appearance of the ringworm is not deeper than the skin,

• Leviticus 13:42

  But if there is on the bald head or on the bald forehead a reddish white sore, it is leprosy breaking out on his bald head or on his bald forehead.

• Leviticus 13:43

  The priest shall examine him, and if the swelling of the sore is reddish white on his bald head or on his bald forehead, like the appearance of leprosy in the skin of the body,

• Leviticus 13:44

  he is a leprous man; he is unclean; the priest shall surely declare him unclean; his sore is on his head.

• Leviticus 13:45

  And the leper who has the sore —his garments shall be torn, and the hair of his head shall hang loose, and he shall cover himself up to the mustache and cry out, ‘Unclean, unclean!’

• Leviticus 13:46

  All the days that the sore is on him he shall be unclean; he is unclean; he shall live alone; his dwelling shall be outside the camp.

• Leviticus 13:47

  And when a garment has a mark of leprosy, in a garment of wool or in a garment of linen,

• Leviticus 13:49

  and if the mark is greenish or reddish in the garment or in the skin, or in the woven material or in the knitted material or in any article of skin, it is a mark of leprosy, and it shall be shown to the priest.

• Leviticus 13:50

  The priest shall examine the mark and isolate the article with the mark seven days.

• Leviticus 13:51

  He shall examine the mark on the seventh day; if the mark has spread in the garment or in the woven material or in the knitted material or in the skin, for whatever the skin is made for use, the mark is a malignant leprosy; it is unclean.

• Leviticus 13:52

  He shall burn the garment, or the woven material or the knitted material of wool or of linen, or any article of skin in which the mark is, for it is a malignant leprosy; it shall be burned with fire.

• Leviticus 13:53

  But if the priest examines it and, look, the mark has not spread in the garment or in the woven material or in the knitted material or in any article of skin,

• Leviticus 13:54

  the priest shall command that they wash that in which the mark is, and he shall isolate it seven days a second time.

• Leviticus 13:55

  The priest shall examine the mark after it has been washed, and if the mark has not changed its appearance —even though the mark has not spread— it is unclean; you shall burn it with fire; it is a corrosion, whether on its back or on its front.

• Leviticus 13:56

  But if the priest examines it and, look, the mark has faded after it has been washed, he shall tear it out of the garment or out of the skin or out of the woven material or out of the knitted material.

• Leviticus 13:57

  And if it appears again in the garment or in the woven material or in the knitted material or in any article of skin, it is breaking out; you shall burn with fire that in which the mark is.

• Leviticus 13:58

  But the garment, or the woven material or the knitted material, or any article of skin that you wash, and the mark departs from them, shall be washed a second time and be clean.

• Leviticus 13:59

  This is the instruction for a mark of leprosy in a garment of wool or of linen, or in the woven material or in the knitted material, or in any article of skin, for declaring it clean or for declaring it unclean.”

• Leviticus 14:3

  The priest shall go out to outside the camp, and the priest shall examine him, and if the leprous sore has been healed in the leper,

• Leviticus 14:32

  This is the instruction for one who has a leprous sore, whose means do not reach for his purification.”

• Leviticus 14:34

  “When you come into the land of Canaan, which I am giving you as a possession, and I put a leprous mark in a house of the land of your possession,

• Leviticus 14:35

  the one to whom the house belongs shall come and tell the priest, saying, ‘Something like a mark has appeared to me in the house.’

And 38 more times.