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# נָקָם

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5359

**vengeance** — used 17 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

vengeance [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5359/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נָקָם: n.m. vengeance [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5359/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. vengeance;—נ׳ Dt 32:35 + 14 times; cstr. נְקַם Lv 26:25; Ju 16:28;— taken by God, abs. Ez 24:8 ψ 58:11; נ׳ בְּרִית vengeance of the covenant Lv 26:25 (H); יוֹם נקם Is 34:8; 61:2; 63:4; בִּגְדֵי נ׳ Is 59:17; לִי נָקָם וְשִׁלֵּם Dt 32:35; לקח נ׳ Is 47:3; נ׳ יבוא Is 35:4; c. acc. adversary עשׂה נ׳ Mi 5:14; c. לְ advers. חשׁיב נ׳ Dt 32:41, 43. Samson against Philistines, נקם נ׳ Ju 16:28. enemies against Judah, abs. Ez 25:12, 15; individual enemy יום נ׳ Pr 6:34.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 17 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, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: vengeance (12); of vengeance (5).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 6:34](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.6.34/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.6.34/#tree)

כִּֽי־קִנְאָ֥ה חֲמַת־גָּ֑בֶר וְלֹֽא־יַ֝חְמ֗וֹל בְּי֣וֹם נָקָֽם׃

*Word for word:* (dm) jealousy \[is.the\].rage of.a.man and not he.will.have.compassion on a.day of.vengeance

*JPS 1917:* For jealousy is the rage of a man, and he will not spare in the day of vengeance.

[Isaiah 34:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.34.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.34.8/#tree)

כִּ֛י י֥וֹם נָקָ֖ם לַֽיהוָ֑ה שְׁנַ֥ת שִׁלּוּמִ֖ים לְרִ֥יב צִיּֽוֹן׃

*Word for word:* (dm) a.day of.vengeance \[belongs\].to Yahweh a.year of.retribution(s) for the.cause of.Zion

*JPS 1917:* For the LORD hath a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the controversy of Zion.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5359.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5359/): 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).