הֶ֫גֶה
moan
‘moan’ is one of 4 main senses fuller range ↓
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
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H1899 appears — 3 distinct verses across 3 books. 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.
Job 1 verse
Psalms 1 verse
Ezekiel 1 verse
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 הגה centers on the idea of “moan.” A scarce word — 3 verses in all of the Hebrew Bible. Job dominates its distribution — 1 of 3 verses. Debuting at Job 37:2, it then recurs through the corpus. The lexicon spreads it across several senses; see its full sense range. Dig into 3-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H1899 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 →
- 3
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 3 distinct verses.
- 3 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 3 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #4,179
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 4,179 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 3 occurrences in the concordance →
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 3 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 2 verses · 67%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 1 verse · 33%
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: Mourning 1×, Sound 1×, Tale 1×
- American Standard Version: End as a sigh 1×, Mourning 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Mourning 1×, Rumbling 1×, Sigh 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Mourning 1×, Sigh 1×, Sound 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H1899 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H1899 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H1899 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H1899 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 3 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
- 1. a rumbling, growling sound וְה׳ מִפִּיו יֵצֵא Jb 37:2 of thunder, as sound going forth from God’s mouth. e.g. Job 37:2
- 2. a moaning קִינִים וָה׳ וָהִי Ez 2:10 lamentations and moaning and woe. e.g. Ezekiel 2:10
- 3. a sigh or moan, as transient, כִּלִּינוּ שָׁנֵינוּ כְמוֹ־הֶ֑גֶה ψ 90:9 we bring our years to an end as a sigh, i.e. a fleeting sound (cf. RVm VB). e.g. Psalms 90:9
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
n.m. Jb 37:2 a rumbling, growling, moaning:—ה׳ abs. Ez 2:10 + 2 times;—
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from הגה (hâgâh) (H1897) — to moan.
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.
הָגָה
- , v. הגי
הֶגֶה
- preced.) thought, study. Gen. R. s. 49 (ref. to Job XXXVII, 2) אין ה׳ אלא תורה hegeh (thought, speculation) means study of the Law. e.g. Job 37:2
הֵגֶה
- , v. הֵיגֶה
הגי
- v. אָגָא) [to point, pierce,]
- 1. to reason, argue, deduct. Koh. R. to I, 16 הלב הוֹגֶה the heart reasons (ref. to Ps. XLIX, 4 הָגוּת). Deut. R. s. 11 הוֹגֶיהָ those who study the Law, contrad. to עוֹשֶׂיהָ.—Y. Meg. I, 72ᵇ ה׳ נח תורה וכ׳ Noah deducted a new law from a given law. Gen. R. s. 49 שהוא הוגה בתורה וכ׳ who shall discuss the Law in seventy languages; a. fr. e.g. Psalms 49:4
- 2. to pronounce, recite, spell. Midr. Till. to Ps. XC, 9 (ref. to הֶגֶה, ib.) זה נער שהוא הוגה like a boy that spells (with difficulty). Snh. X (IX), 1 ההוגה וכ׳ he who pronounces the Divine Name as it is written, v. אָגָא. Koh. R. to XII, 12 (ref. to להג ib.) לֶהֱגוֹת ניתנו וכ׳ they are good for reading exercises but not for painful study; v. הִגָּיוֹן. Y. Meg. IV, 74ᵈ bot. לא יהא הוגה מפיו וקורא he must not spell (the letters of a Biblical book) from memory and dictate for writing a scroll.
- 3. to murmur a charm, v. Hif.
- to be spelled, read. Sabb. XII, 4; 5, נֶהֱגִין זה עם זה letters which can be read together (give sense).
- (also from יָגָה) to pierce, sting; ה׳ מכה to prickle, open a wound; trnsf. to lay bare a person’s disgrace. Lam. R. to I, 4 (interpret. נוגות, ib.) they assaulted her …, עד שהִגּוּ את מכתה and then laughed at her disgrace. Ib. to III, 33 (ref. to וַיַּגֶּה); Cant. R. to VII, 8.
- to murmur charms.—Part. מַהְגֶּה, pl. מַהְגִּים, מַהְגִּין. Sot. 12ᵇ (ref. to Is. VIII, 19) מַ׳ ואינן וכ׳ they murmur but know not what &c.; Ex. R. s. 1 הוֹגִין. Lev. R. s. 6 המ׳ אלו המנהמין hammahgin (Is. l. c.) that means the humming (sorcerers). e.g. Isaiah 8:19
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 3 distinct written forms H1899 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| הֶֽגֶה | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Psalms 90:9 | 1 |
| וְ֝/הֶ֗גֶה | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Job 37:2 | 1 |
| וָ/הֶ֖גֶה | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Ezekiel 2:10 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H1899, 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 → Showing 4 of 5 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 3 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 3 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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