nekama · vengeance

What it means

nekama (נְקָמָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “vengeance”.

Punishment given for a wrong received.

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. Paying back a wrong suffered.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• vengeance ×24
• vengeances ×3

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Numbers×2
• Judges×1
• 2 Samuel×2
• Psalms×5
• Jeremiah×11
• Lamentations×1
• Ezekiel×5

• Numbers 31:2

  “Execute the vengeance of the sons of Israel on the Midianites; afterward you shall be gathered to your people.”

• Numbers 31:3

  Moses spoke to the people, saying, “Arm men from among you for the army, and let them be against Midian to execute the vengeance of YHWH on Midian.

• Judges 11:36

  She said to him, “My father, you have opened your mouth to YHWH; do to me according to what came out of your mouth, now that YHWH has done for you vengeance on your enemies, on the sons of Ammon.”

• 2 Samuel 4:8

  They brought the head of Ish-bosheth to David at Hebron, and said to the king, “Here is the head of Ish-bosheth son of Saul, your enemy, who sought your life. YHWH has given my lord the king vengeance this day on Saul and on his offspring.”

• 2 Samuel 22:48

  the El who gives vengeance to me and brings down peoples beneath me,

• Psalms 18:47

  the El who gives vengeance to me and subdues peoples beneath me,

• Psalms 79:10

  Why should the nations say, “Where is their Elohim?” Let there be known among the nations, before our eyes, the vengeance for the blood of your servants that was poured out.

• Psalms 94:1

  El of vengeances, YHWH, El of vengeances, shine forth!

• Psalms 149:7

  to execute vengeance on the nations, punishments on the peoples,

• Jeremiah 11:20

  But YHWH Tsevaot, who judges righteously, who tests the kidneys and the heart, let me see your vengeance on them, for to you I have laid open my cause.

• Jeremiah 20:10

  For I have heard the whispering of many: “Terror on every side! Denounce him, and let us denounce him!” All the men of my peace, watching for my stumbling, say, “Perhaps he will let himself be seduced, and we will prevail over him, and we will take our vengeance on him.”

• Jeremiah 20:12

  But YHWH Tsevaot, who tests the righteous, who sees the kidneys and the heart, let me see your vengeance on them, for to you I have laid open my cause.

• Jeremiah 46:10

  And that day belongs to Adonai YHWH Tsevaot, a day of vengeance, to avenge himself on his adversaries; and the sword will devour and be sated and drink its fill of their blood; for Adonai YHWH Tsevaot has a sacrifice in the land of the north by the river Euphrates.

• Jeremiah 50:15

  Raise a shout against her all around; she has given her hand; her bulwarks have fallen, her walls are torn down; for it is the vengeance of YHWH: take vengeance on her; as she has done, do to her.

• Jeremiah 50:28

  A sound of those who flee and escape from the land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of YHWH our Elohim, the vengeance for his temple.

• Jeremiah 51:6

  Flee from the midst of Babylon, and save, each one, his life! Do not be silenced in her iniquity, for this is a time of vengeance for YHWH; a recompense he is paying to her.

• Jeremiah 51:11

  Sharpen the arrows! Fill the shields! YHWH has stirred up the spirit of the kings of Media, for against Babylon is his purpose, to destroy her; for it is the vengeance of YHWH, the vengeance for his temple.

• Jeremiah 51:36

  Therefore thus says YHWH: Look, I am pleading your cause, and I will avenge your vengeance; and I will dry up her sea, and make dry her spring.

• Lamentations 3:60

  You have seen all their vengeance, all their thoughts against me.

• Ezekiel 25:14

  And I will put my vengeance on Edom by the hand of my people Israel, and they will act in Edom according to my anger and according to my fury; and they will know my vengeance, declares Adonai YHWH.

• Ezekiel 25:15

  Thus says Adonai YHWH: Because the Philistines acted with vengeance and took vengeance with contempt of soul to destroy, with eternal enmity,

• Ezekiel 25:17

  And I will execute on them great vengeances with rebukes of fury; and they will know that I am YHWH, when I lay my vengeance on them.’”

And 5 more times.