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# נָגַן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5059

**touch** — used 15 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

touch [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5059/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נָגַן: vb. touch play [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5059/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. touch (strings), play a stringed instrument (NH Pi.; Aramaic נְגַן Pa.);— Pt. נֹגְנִים ψ 68:26 players (‖ שָׁרִים, עֲלָמוֹת תּוֹפֵפוֹת). Pf. וְנִגֵּן 1 S 16:16 (consec.), v 23; Impf. 1 pl. נְנַגֵּן Is 38:20; Inf. cstr. נַגֵּן 1 S 16:17 + 5 times; Pt. מְנַגֵּן 1 S 16:16 + 4 times;—play בַּכִּנּוֹר 1 S 16:16; בְּיָדוֹ v 16, 23 (כִּנּוֹר in context), 18:10; 19:9; c. acc. cogn. Is 38:20; in sim. מֵטִב נַגֵּן Ez 33:32 (‖ שִׁיר עֲגָבִים יְפֵה־קוֹל); אִישׁ מֵיטִיב לְנ׳ 1 S 16:17, cf. ψ 33:3 Is 23:16 (both ‖ שִׁיר), יָדַע נ׳ 1 S 16:18; also 2 K 3:15; Pt. = player, minstrel (cf. Qal) 2 K 3:15(×2); cf. also אִישׁ יֹדֵעַ מְנַגֵּן בַּכִּנּוֹר 1 S 16:16 (Ges§ 120 b).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 12 of its verses cited, 1 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: to play (4); \[was\] playing (2); a musician (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 68:26](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.68.26/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.68.26/#tree)

קִדְּמ֣וּ שָׁ֭רִים אַחַ֣ר נֹגְנִ֑ים בְּת֥וֹךְ עֲ֝לָמ֗וֹת תּוֹפֵפֽוֹת׃

*Word for word:* they.went.in.front singers \[were\].behind musicians among young.women \[who.were\].playing.tambourines

*JPS 1917:* The singers go before, the minstrels follow after, in the midst of damsels playing upon timbrels.

[Psalms 33:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.33.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.33.3/#tree)

שִֽׁירוּ־ל֭וֹשִׁ֣יר חָדָ֑שׁ הֵיטִ֥יבוּ נַ֝גֵּ֗ן בִּתְרוּעָֽה׃

*Word for word:* sing to him a.song new do.well to.play with a.shout.of.joy

*JPS 1917:* Sing unto Him a new song; play skilfully amid shouts of joy.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5059.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5059/): 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).