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# נְגֹהָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5054

**brightness** — 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

brightness [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5054/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נְגֹהָה: n.f. brightness [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5054/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. brightness; fig. of prosperity;—pl. לִנְגֹהוֹת Is 59:9 (opp. אֲפֵלוֹת; ‖ אוֹר).

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 (1 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: gleams of light (1).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 59:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.59.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.59.9/#tree)

עַל־כֵּ֗ן רָחַ֤ק מִשְׁפָּט֙ מִמֶּ֔נּוּ וְלֹ֥א תַשִּׂיגֵ֖נוּ צְדָקָ֑ה נְקַוֶּ֤ה לָאוֹר֙ וְהִנֵּה־חֹ֔שֶׁךְ לִנְגֹה֖וֹת בָּאֲפֵל֥וֹת נְהַלֵּֽךְ׃

*Word for word:* therefore it.is.far justice from us and not it reaches.us righteousness we.wait.eagerly for the light and there! darkness for gleams.of.light in (the) gloom(s) we.walk

*JPS 1917:* Therefore is justice far from us, neither doth righteousness overtake us; we look for light, but behold darkness, for brightness, but we walk in gloom.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5054.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5054/): 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).