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# נֶגַע

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5061

**stroke** — used 78 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

stroke [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5061/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נֶ֫גַע: n.m. stroke, plague, mark, plague-spot [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5061/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Gn 12:17 stroke, plague, mark, plague-spot;—נ׳ abs. Ex 11:1 +, נָ֑נַע Lv 13:13 +; cstr. Dt 24:8 +; sf. נִגְעִי ψ 38:12; נִגְעֶ֑ךָ 39:11; נִגְעוֹ Lv 13:44; 2 Ch 6:29; pl. נְגָעִים Gn 12:17 ψ 89:33; cstr. נִגְעֵי 2 S 7:14;— stroke, wound, inflicted by man on man Dt 17:8; 21:5 (‖ רִיב), Pr 6:33. stroke, metaph., especially of a disease, regarded as sent by a divine chastisement, Gn 12:17 (J), Ex 11:1 (E), 2 S 7:14 (נ׳ בְנֵי אָדָם, ‖ שֵׁבֶט אֲנָשִׁים, i.e. customary, ordinary), 1 K 8:37 = 2 Ch 6:28 (both ‖ מַחֲלָה); 1 K 8:38 (נ׳ לְבָבוֹ) = 2 Ch 6:29 (נִגְעוֹ); ψ 91:10 (‖ רָעָה); of Israel 38:12; 39:11 (‖ תִּגְרַת יָֽדְךָ), 89:33 (‖ שֵׁבֶט); v. also Is 53:8 (of suffering servant of י׳, נֶגַע לָ֑מוֹ). mark (60 times Lv 13, 14), indeterm. Lv 13:5, 6 (מִסְפַּחַת), v 17, 29, 30, 32, 43, 44; of leprosy, regarded as the heavy touch or stroke of a disease, נ׳ צָרַ֫עַת Lv 13:2 +; v 51 (צָרַעַת מַמְאֶרֶת הַנּ׳), v 59 14:3, 32, 54, Dt 24:8; also נ׳ הַנֶּתֶק Lv 13:31; נ׳ לָבָן אֲדַמְדָּם v 42; identif. with person having it 13:4, 12, 13, 17, 31; in garment, etc. v 47 + 15 times Lv 13; in house 14:34, 35, 36, 43, 44, 48(×2); i.e. house-wall v 37(×2), 39; in stones of wall v 40; = garment, etc., with plague-spot 13:50.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 46 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: plague (44); a plague (8); \[is\] a plague (6).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 6:33](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.6.33/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.6.33/#tree)

נֶֽגַע־וְקָל֥וֹן יִמְצָ֑א וְ֝חֶרְפָּת֗וֹ לֹ֣א תִמָּחֶֽה׃

*Word for word:* a.wound and shame he.will.find and reproach his not it.will.be.wiped.away

*JPS 1917:* Wounds and dishonour shall he get, and his reproach shall not be wiped away.

[Leviticus 13:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.13.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.13.9/#tree)

נֶ֣גַע צָרַ֔עַת כִּ֥י תִהְיֶ֖ה בְּאָדָ֑ם וְהוּבָ֖א אֶל־הַכֹּהֵֽן׃

*Word for word:* a.plague of.a.serious.skin.disease (dm) it.will.be on anyone and he.will.be.brought to the priest

*JPS 1917:* When the plague of leprosy is in a man, then he shall be brought unto the priest.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5061.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5061/): 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).