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# מַגֵּפָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4046

**blow** — used 26 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

blow [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4046/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מַגֵּפָה²: n.f. blow, slaughter, plague, pestilence [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4046/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. blow, slaughter, plague, pestilence;—מ׳ abs. Nu 14:37 + 23 times; cstr. מַגֵּפַת Zc 14:15; pl. sf. מַגֵּפֹתַי Ex 9:14;— blow, = fatal stroke Ez 24:16; in divine judgment (plague) Ex 9:14 (J). slaughter in battle, 1 S 4:17; 2 S 17:9; 18:7. plague, pestilence (divine judgment), of tumours on Philistines 1 S 6:4; against Isr Nu 14:37; 17:13, 14, 15; 25:8, 9, 18, 19; 31:16 2 S 24:21, 25 (ins. also v 15 𝔊 Th We Klo Dr Kit Bu), 1 Ch 21:22 ψ 106:29, 30; specif. disease of bowels 2 Ch 21:14; מ׳ = infected people 1 Ch 21:17; wasting of flesh, eyes and tongue, of hostile peoples Zc 14:12, 18; attacking beasts v 15(×2).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 24 of its verses cited, 3 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, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: plague (15); a plague (3); a blow (2).

## In the verses

[Numbers 25:19](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.25.19/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.25.19/#tree)

וַיְהִ֖י אַחֲרֵ֣י הַמַּגֵּפָ֑ה

*Word for word:* and it.was after the plague

*JPS 1917:* And it came to pass after the plague, that the LORD spoke unto Moses and unto Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, saying:

[Psalms 106:30](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.106.30/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.106.30/#tree)

וַיַּעֲמֹ֣ד פִּֽ֭ינְחָס וַיְפַלֵּ֑ל וַ֝תֵּעָצַ֗ר הַמַּגֵּפָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and he.stood.up Phinehas and he.mediated and it.was.restrained the plague

*JPS 1917:* Then stood up Phinehas, and wrought judgment, and so the plague was stayed.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4046.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4046/): 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).