אֲגַף
wing
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Every verse where H102 appears — 6 distinct verses across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Ezekiel 6 verses
- Ezekiel 12:14 אֲגַפָּ֖י/ו n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms I will scatter toward every wind all who are round about him to help him, and all his bands; and I will draw out the sword after them.
- Ezekiel 17:21 אֲגַפָּי/ו֙ n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms All his fugitives in all his bands shall fall by the sword, and those who remain shall be scattered toward every wind: and you shall know that I, Yahweh, have spoken it.
- Ezekiel 38:6 אֲגַפֶּ֔י/הָ אֲגַפָּ֑י/ו n c mp cs + sfx pers 3fs n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms Gomer, and all his hordes; the house of Togarmah in the uttermost parts of the north, and all his hordes; even many peoples with you.
- Ezekiel 38:9 אֲגַפֶּ֔י/ךָ n c mp cs + sfx pers 2ms You shall ascend, you shall come like a storm, you shall be like a cloud to cover the land, you, and all your hordes, and many peoples with you.
- Ezekiel 38:22 אֲגַפָּ֔י/ו n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms With pestilence and with blood will I enter into judgment with him; and I will rain on him, and on his hordes, and on the many peoples who are with him, an overflowing shower, and great hailstones, fire, and sulfur.
- Ezekiel 39:4 אֲגַפֶּ֔י/ךָ n c mp cs + sfx pers 2ms You shall fall on the mountains of Israel, you, and all your hordes, and the peoples who are with you: I will give you to the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the animals of the field to be devoured.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
The Hebrew noun אגף centers on the idea of “wing.” Ezekiel dominates its distribution — 6 of 6 verses. Spanning 6 verses in 1 book, it ranks among the uncommon words of the Hebrew Bible. Debuting at Ezekiel 12:14, it then recurs through the corpus. Sharing its root, it stands alongside נגף, מגפה and נגף. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H102 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 6
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 6 distinct verses.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,835
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,835 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 6 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Ezekiel 6 verses 100%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 6 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 6 verses · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: All his bands 4×, Thou and all thy bands 2×
- American Standard Version: All his hordes 2×, Thou 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Troops 7×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Troops 5×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H102 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H102 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H102 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H102 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- wing (of an army), band, army, hordes
Word origin
[ אֲגַף ] n.[m.] band, army (loan-word, orig. wing of army)
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from נגף (nâgaph) (H5062) — to strike.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
אָגַף
- (sec. r. of גְּפַף, v. גּוּף) to fill up a hole with pitch &c. B. Kam. 105ᵃ.
אַגָּף
- (גּוּף I) the moulding or eminence of the door frame against which the door shuts, door-stop (esp. of door-ways in thick city walls &c. with reference to sacred limits in sacrificial law). Pes. VII, 12 מן הא׳ ולפנים וכ׳ the space of the wall inside the door-stop is subject to the laws which apply to the space enclosed by the wall. Ib. 85ᵇ א׳ עצמו the stop itself and the corresponding space. Y. ib. VII, 35ᵇ אגוף.
אֲגַף
- com. (v. foreg. = גַּף; cmp. b. h. אֲגַפִּים)
- 1. wing, pinion. Pl. אֲגַפִּים; Du. אֲגַפַּיִים. Neg. XIV, 1. Gen. R. s. 39; a. e.
- 2. winged animals, poultry. Succ. 42ᵃ
- 3. arms, shoulders of a human being. Y. Snh. VII, 24ᵇ bot. יכול יטלינו מבין הא׳ you might think the convict must be cut through at the arm-pits. Sabb. 129ᵃ חבירותיה נושאות וכ׳ her mates lift her by her arms.
- 4. banks of river &c. B. Kam. 61ᵃ a rivulet which imparts שלל לאֲגַפֶּיהָ booty (alluvium) to its banks. B. Bath. 99ᵇ שכלו א׳ whose embankments have disappeared (washed away).
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 6 distinct written forms H102 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| אֲגַפֶּ֔י/ךָ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct | Ezekiel 38:9 | 2 |
| אֲגַפֶּ֔י/הָ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct | Ezekiel 38:6 | 1 |
| אֲגַפָּ֑י/ו | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct | Ezekiel 38:6 | 1 |
| אֲגַפָּ֔י/ו | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct | Ezekiel 38:22 | 1 |
| אֲגַפָּ֖י/ו | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct | Ezekiel 12:14 | 1 |
| אֲגַפָּי/ו֙ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct | Ezekiel 17:21 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H102, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 6 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 6 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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