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# חָגוּ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2288

**festival-gathering** — used 3 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

festival-gathering [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2288/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חֲגָוִים: n.m.pl. places of concealment, retreats [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2288/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m.pl. places of concealment, retreats, as abode of dove יוֹנָתִי בְּחַגְוֵי הַסֶּלַע Ct 2:14 (in metaph.); also, hyperbol., as abode of Edom שֹׁכְנִי בח׳ (ה)סלע Je 49:16 Ob 3.

Why these entries: BDB: another headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (7 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (6 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: the clefts (2); clefts (1).

## In the verses

[Obadiah 1:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/OBA.1.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/OBA.1.3/#tree)

זְד֤וֹן לִבְּךָ֙ הִשִּׁיאֶ֔ךָ שֹׁכְנִ֥י בְחַגְוֵי־סֶּ֖לַע מְר֣וֹם שִׁבְתּ֑וֹ אֹמֵ֣ר בְּלִבּ֔וֹ מִ֥י יוֹרִדֵ֖נִי אָֽרֶץ׃

*Word for word:* the.presumption your.heart your it has.deceived.you O.\[you.who\].dwell in clefts of.rock the.height his.dwelling his \[he.is\].saying in heart his who? will he.bring.me.down \[the\].ground

*JPS 1917:* The pride of thy heart hath beguiled thee, O thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, thy habitation on high; that sayest in thy heart: 'Who shall bring me down to the ground?'

[Song of Songs 2:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.2.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.2.14/#tree)

יוֹנָתִ֞י בְּחַגְוֵ֣י הַסֶּ֗לַע בְּסֵ֙תֶר֙ הַמַּדְרֵגָ֔ה הַרְאִ֙ינִי֙ אֶתּ־מַרְאַ֔יִךְהַשְׁמִיעִ֖ינִי אֶת־קוֹלֵ֑ךְ כִּי־קוֹלֵ֥ךְ עָרֵ֖ב וּמַרְאֵ֥יךְ נָאוֶֽה׃ס

*Word for word:* my.dove my in the.clefts of the.rock in the.hiding.place of the.steep.place let me.see (et) form your cause me.to.hear (et) voice your (dm) voice your \[is\].sweet and form your \[is\].lovely

*JPS 1917:* O my dove, that art in the clefts of the rock, in the covert of the cliff, let me see thy countenance, let me hear thy voice; for sweet is thy voice, and thy countenance is comely.'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2288.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2288/): 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).