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# חָגָּא

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2283

**reeling** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

reeling [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2283/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חָגָּא: reeling be excited [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2283/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[f.\] reeling (Aramaism for חגה Ew§ 173 b, by copyist’s error Di)—וְהָֽיְתָה … למצרים לח׳ Is 19:17 and the land of Judah shall become to Egypt a reeling, i.e. Egypt shall reel in terror at the sight of it (‖ יִפְחָ֑ד; this meaning may either be from an orig. sense of חגג, or = be excited as at a חָג, cf. חנג 3).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: object of terror (1).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 19:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.19.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.19.17/#tree)

וְ֠הָיְתָה אַדְמַ֨ת יְהוּדָ֤ה לְמִצְרַ֙יִם֙ לְחָגָּ֔א כֹּל֩ אֲשֶׁ֨ר יַזְכִּ֥יר אֹתָ֛הּ אֵלָ֖יו יִפְחָ֑ד מִפְּנֵ֗י עֲצַת֙ יְהוָ֣ה צְבָא֔וֹת אֲשֶׁר־ה֖וּא יוֹעֵ֥ץ עָלָֽיו׃ס

*Word for word:* and it.will.become the.land of.Judah to Egypt (into).an object.of.terror every \[one\].whom someone.will.bring.to.remembrance it to him he.will.be.in.dread because of the.plan of.Yahweh of.hosts which he \[is\].planning on it

*JPS 1917:* And the land of Judah shall become a terror unto Egypt, whensoever one maketh mention thereof to it; it shall be afraid, because of the purpose of the LORD of hosts, which He purposeth against it.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2283.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2283/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).