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# נָגַח

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5055

**push** — used 11 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

push [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5055/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נָגַח: vb. push, thrust, gore [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5055/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. push, thrust, gore (NH id.; Arabic نَجَحَ succeed, attain, make progress; 𝔗 as BH);— Impf. יִגַּח Ex 21:28, 31, 32 (E), יִגָּ֑ח v 31;—gore, subj. שׁוֹר, sq. acc. pers. Impf. יְנַגַּח Dt 33:17; 2 ms. תְּנַגַּח 1 K 22:11 2 Ch 18:10; תְּנַגְּחוּ Ez 34:21; נְנַגֵּחַ ψ 44:6; Pt. מְנַגֵּחַ Dn 8:4;—push or thrush at, sq. acc.: of Joseph under fig. of wild ox Dt 33:17, cf. 1 K 22:11 = 2 Ch 18:10 ψ 44:6 (‖ בּוּס); v. also Ez 34:21 (of Isr. under fig. of sheep), cf. Dn 8:4 (of ram in vision; obj. not expr.). Impf. יִתְנַגַּח עִמּוֹ מֶלֶךְ הַנֶּגֶב Dn 11:40 engage in thrusting with, wage war with.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 10 of its verses cited, 1 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, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: it will gore (4); you will gore (2); goring (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 44:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.44.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.44.6/#tree)

בְּ֭ךָ צָרֵ֣ינוּ נְנַגֵּ֑חַ בְּ֝שִׁמְךָ֗ נָב֥וּס קָמֵֽינוּ׃

*Word for word:* by you foes our we.gore in name your we.tread.down \[those who\].rise.against.us

*JPS 1917:* Through Thee do we push down our adversaries; through Thy name do we tread them under that rise up against us.

[Exodus 21:31](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.21.31/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.21.31/#tree)

אוֹ־בֵ֥ן יִגָּ֖ח אוֹ־בַ֣ת יִגָּ֑ח כַּמִּשְׁפָּ֥ט הַזֶּ֖ה יֵעָ֥שֶׂה לּֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* or a.son it.will.gore or a.daughter it.will.gore according to the.judgment (the) this it.will.be.done to him

*JPS 1917:* Whether it have gored a son, or have gored a daughter, according to this judgment shall it be done unto him.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5055.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5055/): 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).