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נֶגֶף

negef · plague, blow

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H5063 · appears 7 times in the Bible

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What it means

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

Plague, deadly blow; also stumbling (Isaiah 8:14).

How to say it

ne·gef

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. A striking blow of judgment.
  2. A blow one falls against: the obstacle that makes one stumble.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

  • plague ×6
  • strike against ×1

Related words

Comes from

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

Where it appears

  • Exodus 12:13

    The blood shall be a sign for you on the houses where you are; when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and no destroying plague will be among you when I strike the land of Egypt.

  • Exodus 30:12

    “When you take the census of the sons of Israel by their numbering, each shall give a compensation for his life to YHWH when they are numbered, so that there will be no plague among them when they are numbered.

  • Numbers 8:19

    And I have given the Levites as given ones to Aaron and to his sons from among the sons of Israel, to do the service of the sons of Israel in the tent of meeting, and to make expiation for the sons of Israel, so that there may be no plague among the sons of Israel when the sons of Israel come near to the Holy Place.”

  • Numbers 16:46

    And Moses said to Aaron, “Take the censer and put fire in it from the altar, and lay on it incense, and carry it quickly to the community and make expiation for them, for wrath has gone out from the presence of YHWH; the plague has begun.”

  • Numbers 16:47

    So Aaron took it as Moses had said and ran into the midst of the assembly, and look, the plague had begun among the people. And he put on the incense and made expiation for the people.

  • Joshua 22:17

    Is the iniquity of Peor too little for us, from which we have not cleansed ourselves to this day, and for which the plague came on the community of YHWH?

  • Isaiah 8:14

    And he will become a sanctuary, and a stone to strike against and a rock to stumble over for both houses of Israel, a snare and a trap for the inhabitant of Jerusalem.