חַג chag

Hebrew word for “feast” · Strong’s H2282 · used 62 times in 55 verses

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Meaning

1) festival, feast, festival-gathering, pilgrim-feast; 1a) feast; 1b) festival sacrifice

How it is translated

Glosses given for chag in context, with how often each is used:

• festival 50
• festivals 6
• festival sacrifice 2
• feasts 2
• like the festival 1
• feast 1

Where it is used

Also in 5 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

Leviticus 23 (4), Deuteronomy 16 (4), Ezekiel 45 (4), Exodus 23 (3), Exodus 34 (3), Zechariah 14 (3), 1 Kings 8 (2), 1 Kings 12 (2), 2 Chronicles 7 (2), 2 Chronicles 30 (2)

Forms

• חג 31
• בחג 7
• וחג 4
• ובחג 4
• החג 3
• חגיכם 3
• חגי 1
• בחגך 1
• כחג 1
• והחג 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with chag more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• חֹדֶשׁ chodesh “month” 20
• שֶׁבַע sheva “seven” 20
• מַצָּה matstsah “unleavened bread” 12
• סֻכָּה sukkah “booth” 10
• חָגַג chagag “to celebrate” 8
• שְׁבִיעִי shevii “seventh” 9
• עָשָׂר asar “ten” 10
• מוֹעֵד moed “meeting” 8
• שָׁבוּעַ shavua “week” 5
• חָמֵשׁ chamesh “five” 8
• שְׁמִינִי shemini “eighth” 5
• שָׁנָה shaneh “year” 8

Key verses

The verses using chag that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Exodus 12:14 — And this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall keep it a feast to the LORD throughout your generations; ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance…
• Exodus 23:15 — Thou shalt keep the feast of unleavened bread: (thou shalt eat unleavened bread seven days, as I commanded thee, in the time appointed of the month Abib; for…
• Exodus 23:16 — And the feast of harvest, the firstfruits of thy labours, which thou hast sown in the field: and the feast of ingathering, which is in the end of the year,…
• Deuteronomy 16:16 — Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose; in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast…
• 1 Kings 8:65 — And at that time Solomon held a feast, and all Israel with him, a great congregation, from the entering in of Hamath unto the river of Egypt, before the LORD…
• Psalms 81:3 — Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day.
• Isaiah 30:29 — Ye shall have a song, as in the night when a holy solemnity is kept; and gladness of heart, as when one goeth with a pipe to come into the mountain of the…
• Ezekiel 45:17 — And it shall be the prince’s part to give burnt offerings, and meat offerings, and drink offerings, in the feasts, and in the new moons, and in the sabbaths,…
• Amos 5:21 — I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies.
• Amos 8:10 — And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and…
• Nahum 1:15 — Behold upon the mountains the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace! O Judah, keep thy solemn feasts, perform thy vows: for the wicked…
• Zechariah 14:16 — And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship the King,…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.