נֶגַע nega

Hebrew word for “plague” · Strong’s H5061 · used 78 times in 62 verses

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Meaning

1) stroke, plague, disease, mark, plague spot; 1a) stroke, wound; 1b) stroke (metaphorical of disease); 1c) mark (of leprosy)

How it is translated

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

• plague 63
• plagued person 5
• wound 5
• plagues 2
• like a plague 1
• wounds 1
• own plague 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Leviticus 13 (34), Leviticus 14 (12), 1 Kings 8 (2), 2 Chronicles 6 (2), Genesis 12 (1), Exodus 11 (1), Deuteronomy 17 (1), Deuteronomy 21 (1), Deuteronomy 24 (1), 2 Samuel 7 (1)

Forms

• הנגע 39
• נגע 25
• לנגע 2
• בנגע 2
• נגעו 2
• נגעים 1
• והנגע 1
• כנגע 1
• ובנגעי 1
• נגעי 1

Words used with it

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

• צָרַעַת tsaraat “leprosy” 22
• עוֹר or “skin” 22
• כֹּהֵן kohen “priest” 33
• פָּשָׂה pasah “to spread” 11
• רָאָה raah “to see” 26
• אוֹ o “or” 16
• שְׁתִי sheti “warp” 8
• הִנֵּה hinneh “behold” 18
• עֵרֶב erev “mixture” 8
• מַרְאֶה mareh “appearance” 10
• לָבָן lavan “white” 8
• בֶּגֶד beged “garment” 11

Key verses

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

• Leviticus 13:2 — When a man shall have in the skin of his flesh a rising, a scab, or bright spot, and it be in the skin of his flesh like the plague of leprosy; then he shall…
• Leviticus 13:3 — And the priest shall look on the plague in the skin of the flesh: and when the hair in the plague is turned white, and the plague in sight be deeper than the…
• Leviticus 13:45 — And the leper in whom the plague is, his clothes shall be rent, and his head bare, and he shall put a covering upon his upper lip, and shall cry, Unclean,…
• Leviticus 13:46 — All the days wherein the plague shall be in him he shall be defiled; he is unclean: he shall dwell alone; without the camp shall his habitation be.
• Leviticus 14:34 — When ye be come into the land of Canaan, which I give to you for a possession, and I put the plague of leprosy in a house of the land of your possession;
• Deuteronomy 17:8 — If there arise a matter too hard for thee in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of…
• 2 Samuel 7:14 — I will be his father, and he shall be my son. If he commit iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men:
• 1 Kings 8:37 — If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, blasting, mildew, locust, or if there be caterpiller; if their enemy besiege them in the land of their…
• 1 Kings 8:38 — What prayer and supplication soever be made by any man, or by all thy people Israel, which shall know every man the plague of his own heart, and spread forth…
• 2 Chronicles 6:28 — If there be dearth in the land, if there be pestilence, if there be blasting, or mildew, locusts, or caterpillers; if their enemies besiege them in the cities…
• Psalms 38:11 — My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen stand afar off.
• Isaiah 53:8 — He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my…

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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.