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# נָגַהּ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5050

**shine** — used 6 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

shine [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5050/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נָגַהּ: vb. shine [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5050/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. shine (Assyrian nagû, shine, beam, be joyful, DlHWB 446; Ethiopic ነግሀ: Aramaic ܢܓܰܗ; NH 𝔗 נוֹגְהָא planet Venus)— Pf. ועל־דרכיך נ׳ אוֹר Jb 22:28; אור נ׳ עליהם Is 9:1; Impf. ולא־יִגַּהּ שְׁבִיב אִשּׁוֹ Jb 18:5. Impf. enlighten ויהוה יַגִּיהַּ חָשְׁכִּי 2 S 22:29 = יהוה אלהי יַגִּהַּ חשׁכי ψ 18:29. cause to shine (of moon) וְיָרֵחַ לא־יַגִּיהַּ אוֹרוֹ׃ Is 13:10 (‖ חָשַׁך).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: he illuminates (2); it will shine (2); it shines (1).

## In the verses

[2 Samuel 22:29](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.22.29/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.22.29/#tree)

כִּֽי־אַתָּ֥ה נֵירִ֖י יְהוָ֑ה וַיהוָ֖ה יַגִּ֥יהַּ חָשְׁכִּֽי׃

*Word for word:* (dm) you lamp \[are\].my O.Yahweh and Yahweh he.illuminates darkness my

*JPS 1917:* For Thou art my lamp, O LORD; and the LORD doth lighten my darkness.

[Job 18:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.18.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.18.5/#tree)

גַּ֤ם א֣וֹר רְשָׁעִ֣ים יִדְעָ֑ךְ וְלֹֽא־יִ֝גַּ֗הּ שְׁבִ֣יב אִשּֽׁוֹ׃

*Word for word:* also \[the\].light of.wicked.\[people\] it.is.extinguished and not it.shines the.flame his.fire his

*JPS 1917:* Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5050.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5050/): 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).