ragal · spy

What it means

ragal (רָגַל) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “spy”.

Go through a place to find out its weak points; also slander.

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. To go through a land secretly to learn about it; the scouts.
2. To speak ill of someone behind his back to harm him.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• spies ×10
• spy out ×8
• spied out ×2
• he has slandered ×1
• men spying out ×1
• slander ×1
• spied it out ×1
• spy it out ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×7
• Numbers×1
• Deuteronomy×1
• Joshua×7
• Judges×3
• 1 Samuel×1
• 2 Samuel×3
• 1 Chronicles×1
• Psalms×1

• Genesis 42:9

  Joseph remembered the dreams that he had dreamed about them, and he said to them, “You are spies; to see the nakedness of the land you have come.”

• Genesis 42:11

  All of us are sons of one man; we are honest men; your servants have not been spies.”

• Genesis 42:14

  Joseph said to them, “It is as I said to you: you are spies.

• Genesis 42:16

  Send one of you, and let him get your brother, while you are kept in prison, so that your words may be tested, whether the truth is with you; and if not, by the life of Pharaoh, surely you are spies.”

• Genesis 42:30

  “The man, the lord of the land, spoke with us harshly and took us for men spying out the land.

• Genesis 42:31

  But we said to him, ‘We are honest men; we have never been spies.

• Genesis 42:34

  Bring your youngest brother to me, and I will know that you are not spies, but you are honest men. I will give back your brother to you, and you may trade in the land.’”

• Numbers 21:32

  And Moses sent to spy out Jazer, and they captured its villages and dispossessed the Amorite who were there.

• Deuteronomy 1:24

  They turned and went up into the hill country, came to the Valley of Eshcol, and spied it out.

• Joshua 2:1

  Then Joshua son of Nun sent from Shittim two men as spies secretly, saying, “Go, see the land and Jericho.” So they went and came to the house of a woman, a prostitute, whose name was Rahab, and they lay down there.

• Joshua 6:22

  And to the two men who had spied out the land Joshua said, “Go into the house of the woman, the prostitute, and bring out from there the woman and all that she has, just as you swore to her.”

• Joshua 6:23

  So the young men, the spies, went in and brought out Rahab, her father, her mother, her brothers, and all that she had; and all her families they brought out, and they left them outside the camp of Israel.

• Joshua 6:25

  But Rahab the prostitute and the house of her father and all that she had, Joshua kept alive; and she has lived in the midst of Israel to this day, because she hid the messengers whom Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.

• Joshua 7:2

  Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is near Beth-aven, east of Bethel, and said to them, “Go up and spy out the land.” The men went up and spied out Ai.

• Joshua 14:7

  I was forty years old when Moses the servant of YHWH sent me from Kadesh-barnea to spy out the land, and I brought back to him word as it was in my heart.

• Judges 18:2

  So the sons of Dan sent from their family five men from their whole number, men of valor, from Zorah and from Eshtaol, to spy out the land and to explore it. And they said to them, “Go, explore the land.” And they came to the hill country of Ephraim, as far as the house of Micah, and spent the night there.

• Judges 18:14

  Then the five men who had gone to spy out the land of Laish spoke up and said to their brothers, “Do you know that there are in these houses an ephod and teraphim and a carved image and a cast image? Now consider what you will do.”

• Judges 18:17

  And the five men who had gone to spy out the land went up; they came in there, took the carved image, the ephod, the teraphim, and the cast image, while the priest was standing at the entrance of the gate with the six hundred men armed with weapons of war.

• 1 Samuel 26:4

  David sent spies and learned for certain that Saul had come.

• 2 Samuel 10:3

  and the commanders of the sons of Ammon said to Hanun their lord, “Is David honoring your father in your eyes because he has sent comforters to you? Is it not in order to explore the city, to spy it out and to overthrow it, that David has sent his servants to you?”

• 2 Samuel 15:10

  Absalom sent spies throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, “When you hear the sound of the horn, then say, ‘Absalom reigns in Hebron.’”

• 2 Samuel 19:27

  And he has slandered your servant to my lord the king. But my lord the king is like an angel of Elohim; so do what is good in your eyes.

• 1 Chronicles 19:3

  and the commanders of the sons of Ammon said to Hanun, “Is David honoring your father in your eyes because he has sent comforters to you? Is it not in order to explore and to overthrow and to spy out the land that his servants have come to you?”

• Psalms 15:3

  who does not slander with his tongue, does not do evil to his neighbor, nor lift up reproach against the one near him;

And 1 more times.