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# נֹגַהּ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5051

**brightness** — used 19 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

brightness [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5051/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נֹ֫גַהּ: n.f. brightness [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5051/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. Hb 3:4 (?) brightness;—נ׳ abs. Am. 5:20 +; cstr. Is 4:5 +; sf. נָגְהָם Jo 2:10; 4:15;—brightness of a (clear, sunshiny) day Am 5:20 (‖ אוֹר; opp. אָפֵל, חֹשֶׁךְ), 2 S 23:4 (מִמָּטָר after rain); so fig. of Zion’s dawning, נ׳ זַרְחֵךְ Is 60:3 (‖ אוֹר); of her righteousness כַּנֹּגַהּ 62:1 (c. art. only here and Ez 1:28), ‖ כְּלַפִּיד יִבְעָ֑ר; of moon Is 60:19, of stars Jo 2:10; 4:15; of theophany 2 S 22:13 = ψ 18:13 (in storm); cf. Ez 1:4, 27, 28, נ׳ כְּבוֹד י׳ 10:4; נ׳ כאור Hb 3:4; נ׳ לָאֵשׁ Ez 1:13, נ׳ אֵשׁ לֶהָבָה Is 4:5; נ׳ בְּרַק חֲנִיתֶ֑ךָ Hb 3:11 (of glitter of י׳’s spear; ‖ אוֹר חִצֶּיךָ); of individ., וְאֵין נ׳ לוֹ Is 50:10 (fig. of distress ‖ חֲשֵׁכִים); so וְאֹרַח צַדִּיקִים כְּאוֹר נ׳ Pr 4:18 the path of righteous men is like a light of brightness.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 19 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: brightness (15); the brightness (3); of brightness (1).

## In the verses

[2 Samuel 22:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.22.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.22.13/#tree)

מִנֹּ֖גַהּ נֶגְדּ֑וֹ בָּעֲר֖וּ גַּחֲלֵי־אֵֽשׁ׃

*Word for word:* from.\[the\] brightness before him they.burned coals of.fire

*JPS 1917:* At the brightness before Him coals of fire flamed forth.

[Joel 4:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOL.4.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOL.4.15/#tree)

שֶׁ֥מֶשׁ וְיָרֵ֖חַ קָדָ֑רוּ וְכוֹכָבִ֖ים אָסְפ֥וּ נָגְהָֽם׃

*Word for word:* sun and moon they.have.become.dark and.\[the\] stars they.have.withdrawn brightness their

*JPS 1917:* The sun and the moon are become black, and the stars withdraw their shining.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5051.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5051/): 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).