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# נַגָּח

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5056

**addicted to goring** — used 2 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

addicted to goring [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5056/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נַגָּח: adj. addicted to goring [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5056/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj. addicted to goring, pred. of שׁוֹר Ex 21:29, 36 (E), cf. BaNB 49.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: prone to gore (2).

## In the verses

[Exodus 21:36](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.21.36/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.21.36/#tree)

א֣וֹ נוֹדַ֗ע כִּ֠י שׁ֣וֹר נַגָּ֥ח הוּא֙ מִתְּמ֣וֹל שִׁלְשֹׁ֔ם וְלֹ֥א יִשְׁמְרֶ֖נּוּ בְּעָלָ֑יו שַׁלֵּ֨ם יְשַׁלֵּ֥ם שׁוֹר֙ תַּ֣חַת הַשּׁ֔וֹר וְהַמֵּ֖ת יִֽהְיֶה־לּֽוֹ׃ס

*Word for word:* or it.is.known (dm).that \[is\].an.ox prone.to.gore it from yesterday three.days.ago and not he guarded.it owner(s) its certainly.(make.compensation) he.will.make.compensation an.ox in.place.of the ox and the.dead \[animal\] it.will.belong to him

*JPS 1917:* Or if it be known that the ox was wont to gore in time past, and its owner hath not kept it in; he shall surely pay ox for ox, and the dead beast shall be his own.

[Exodus 21:29](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.21.29/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.21.29/#tree)

וְאִ֡ם שׁוֹר֩ נַגָּ֨ח ה֜וּא מִתְּמֹ֣ל שִׁלְשֹׁ֗ם וְהוּעַ֤ד בִּבְעָלָיו֙ וְלֹ֣א יִשְׁמְרֶ֔נּוּ וְהֵמִ֥ית אִ֖ישׁ א֣וֹ אִשָּׁ֑ה הַשּׁוֹר֙ יִסָּקֵ֔ל וְגַם־בְּעָלָ֖יו יוּמָֽת׃

*Word for word:* and if \[will.be\].an.ox prone.to.gore it from yesterday three.days.ago and it.has.been.protested on owner(s) its and not he will.guard.it and it.will.kill a.man or a.woman the ox it.will.be.stoned.to.death and also owner(s) its he.will.be.put.to.death

*JPS 1917:* But if the ox was wont to gore in time past, and warning hath been given to its owner, and he hath not kept it in, but it hath killed a man or a woman; the ox shall be stoned, and its owner also shall be put to death.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5056.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5056/): 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).