נָגַד
to make known
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Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Stem
- Hiphil
- The causative active stem (“he caused / brought about”). Here: ‘tell’
- Hophal
- The passive counterpart of the Hiphil (“he was caused to…”).
Form
- Sequential Imperfect
- An imperfect with prefixed waw — the standard past-narrative form (waw-consecutive imperfect).
- Infinitive Construct
- A bound verbal noun, frequently with prepositions (“to write / in writing”).
- Perfect
- A completed action or state — Hebrew marks aspect (completeness) more than strict tense (“he wrote”).
- Imperfect
- An incomplete, ongoing, or future action (“he will / would write”).
- Imperative
- A direct command (“write!”).
- Participle Active
- A verbal adjective expressing ongoing or characteristic action (“writing / one who writes”).
- Infinitive Absolute
- An unbound verbal noun, often intensifying or standing in for a finite verb.
- Sequential Perfect
- A perfect with prefixed waw continuing a preceding imperfect or command (waw-consecutive perfect).
- Jussive
- A third- or second-person volitional form expressing wish or command (“let him write”).
- Cohortative
- A first-person volitional form expressing wish or resolve (“let me / let us write”).
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Person
- 3rd Person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
- 1st Person
- The speaker (“I / we”).
- 2nd Person
- The one addressed (“you”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Common
- Either gender — not distinguished for this form.
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
32 verses where H5046 appears in the Hiphil stem in the Book of 2 Samuel. Filtered view — show all forms. 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.
2 Samuel
- 2 Samuel 1:4 הַגֶּד Hiphil impv 2ms David said to him, How went the matter? Please tell me. He answered, The people are fled from the battle, and many of the people also are fallen and dead; and Saul and Jonathan his son are dead also.
- 2 Samuel 1:5 הַ/מַּגִּ֣יד ptcl def.art + Hiphil ptcp.act ms David said to the young man who told him, How know you that Saul and Jonathan his son are dead?
- 2 Samuel 1:6 הַ/מַּגִּ֣יד ptcl def.art + Hiphil ptcp.act ms The young man who told him said, As I happened by chance on Mount Gilboa, behold, Saul was leaning on his spear; and, behold, the chariots and the horsemen followed hard after him.
- 2 Samuel 1:13 הַ/מַּגִּ֣יד ptcl def.art + Hiphil ptcp.act ms David said to the young man who told him, Whence are you? He answered, I am the son of a foreigner, an Amalekite.
- 2 Samuel 1:20 תַּגִּ֣ידוּ Hiphil juss 2mp Don't tell it in Gath, Don't publish it in the streets of Ashkelon; Lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, Lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.
- 2 Samuel 2:4 וַ/יַּגִּ֤דוּ conj + Hiphil wimpf 3mp The men of Judah came, and there they anointed David king over the house of Judah. They told David, saying, The men of Jabesh Gilead were those who buried Saul.
- 2 Samuel 3:23 וַ/יַּגִּ֤דוּ conj + Hiphil wimpf 3mp When Joab and all the host who was with him had come, they told Joab, saying, Abner the son of Ner came to the king, and he has sent him away, and he is gone in peace.
- 2 Samuel 4:10 הַ/מַּגִּיד֩ ptcl def.art + Hiphil ptcp.act ms when one told me, saying, Behold, Saul is dead, thinking to have brought good news, I took hold of him, and killed him in Ziklag, which was the reward I gave him for his news.
- 2 Samuel 7:11 וְ/הִגִּ֤יד conj + Hiphil wpf 3ms and [as] from the day that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel; and I will cause you to rest from all your enemies. Moreover Yahweh tells you that Yahweh will make you a house.
- 2 Samuel 10:5 וַ/יַּגִּ֤דוּ conj + Hiphil wimpf 3mp When they told it to David, he sent to meet them; for the men were greatly ashamed. The king said, Wait at Jericho until your beards be grown, and then return.
- 2 Samuel 11:5 וַ/תַּגֵּ֣ד conj + Hiphil wimpf 3fs The woman conceived; and she sent and told David, and said, I am with child.
- 2 Samuel 11:10 וַ/יַּגִּ֤דוּ conj + Hiphil wimpf 3mp When they had told David, saying, Uriah didn't go down to his house, David said to Uriah, Haven't you come from a journey? why did you not go down to your house?
- 2 Samuel 11:18 וַ/יַּגֵּ֣ד conj + Hiphil wimpf 3ms Then Joab sent and told David all the things concerning the war;
- 2 Samuel 11:22 וַ/יַּגֵּ֣ד conj + Hiphil wimpf 3ms So the messenger went, and came and shown David all that Joab had sent him for.
- 2 Samuel 12:18 לְ/הַגִּ֥יד prep + Hiphil inf.cs It happened on the seventh day, that the child died. The servants of David feared to tell him that the child was dead; for they said, Behold, while the child was yet alive, we spoke to him, and he didn't listen to our voice: how will he then vex himself, if we tell him that the child is dead!
- 2 Samuel 13:4 תַּגִּ֣יד Hiphil impf 2ms He said to him, Why, son of the king, are you thus lean from day to day? Won't you tell me? Amnon said to him, I love Tamar, my brother Absalom's sister.
- 2 Samuel 14:33 וַ/יַּגֶּד conj + Hiphil wimpf 3ms So Joab came to the king, and told him; and when he had called for Absalom, he came to the king, and bowed himself on his face to the ground before the king: and the king kissed Absalom.
- 2 Samuel 15:13 הַ/מַּגִּ֔יד ptcl def.art + Hiphil ptcp.act ms There came a messenger to David, saying, The hearts of the men of Israel are after Absalom.
- 2 Samuel 15:28 לְ/הַגִּ֥יד prep + Hiphil inf.cs Behold, I will stay at the fords of the wilderness, until word comes from you to inform me."
- 2 Samuel 15:31 הִגִּ֣יד Hiphil pf 3ms One told David, saying, Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom. David said, Yahweh, please turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.
- 2 Samuel 15:35 תַּגִּ֕יד Hiphil impf 2ms Don't you have Zadok and Abiathar the priests there with you? therefore it shall be, that whatever thing you shall hear out of the king's house, you shall tell it to Zadok and Abiathar the priests.
- 2 Samuel 17:16 וְ/הַגִּ֨ידוּ conj + Hiphil impv 2mp Now therefore send quickly, and tell David, saying, Don't lodge this night at the fords of the wilderness, but by all means pass over; lest the king be swallowed up, and all the people who are with him.
- 2 Samuel 17:17 וְ/הִגִּ֣ידָה וְ/הִגִּ֖ידוּ conj + Hiphil wpf 3fs conj + Hiphil wpf 3cp Now Jonathan and Ahimaaz were staying by En Rogel; and a maid-servant used to go and tell them; and they went and told king David: for they might not be seen to come into the city.
- 2 Samuel 17:18 וַ/יַּגֵּ֖ד conj + Hiphil wimpf 3ms But a boy saw them, and told Absalom: and they went both of them away quickly, and came to the house of a man in Bahurim, who had a well in his court; and they went down there.
- 2 Samuel 17:21 וַ/יַּגִּ֖דוּ conj + Hiphil wimpf 3mp It happened, after they had departed, that they came up out of the well, and went and told king David; and they said to David, Arise you, and pass quickly over the water; for thus has Ahithophel counseled against you.
- 2 Samuel 18:10 וַ/יַּגֵּ֖ד conj + Hiphil wimpf 3ms A certain man saw it, and told Joab, and said, Behold, I saw Absalom hanging in an oak.
- 2 Samuel 18:11 הַ/מַּגִּ֣יד ptcl def.art + Hiphil ptcp.act ms Joab said to the man who told him, Behold, you saw it, and why didn't you strike him there to the ground? and I would have given you ten [pieces of] silver, and a sash.
- 2 Samuel 18:21 הַגֵּ֥ד Hiphil impv 2ms Then said Joab to the Cushite, Go, tell the king what you have seen. The Cushite bowed himself to Joab, and ran.
- 2 Samuel 18:25 וַ/יַּגֵּ֣ד conj + Hiphil wimpf 3ms The watchman cried, and told the king. The king said, If he be alone, there is news in his mouth. He came apace, and drew near.
- 2 Samuel 19:6 הִגַּ֣דְתָּ Hiphil pf 2ms in that you love those who hate you, and hate those who love you. For you have declared this day, that princes and servants are nothing to you: for this day I perceive that if Absalom had lived, and all we had died this day, then it had pleased you well.
- 2 Samuel 19:8 הִגִּ֣ידוּ Hiphil pf 3cp Then the king arose, and sat in the gate. They told to all the people, saying, Behold, the king is sitting in the gate: and all the people came before the king. Now Israel had fled every man to his tent.
- 2 Samuel 24:13 וַ/יַּגֶּד conj + Hiphil wimpf 3ms So Gad came to David, and told him, and said to him, Shall seven years of famine come to you in your land? or will you flee three months before your foes while they pursue you? or shall there be three days' pestilence in your land? now advise you, and consider what answer I shall return to him who sent me.
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.
נגד (nâgad) is a Hebrew verb most often rendered “to make known.” Older and newer Bibles part ways — “told” in the King James Version, “declare” (unfoldingWord Literal Text) in modern versions. See the renderings breakdown. It turns up in 344 verses across 31 books, a common footprint. Scripture first uses it in Genesis 3:11. Read the stem: it spans 2 stems, including Hiphil and Hophal. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H5046 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 →
- 344
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 344 distinct verses.
- 31 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 31 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #136
- by frequency
- Top 250 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 136 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 344 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 344 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 213 verses · 62%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 78 verses · 23%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 53 verses · 15%
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: Told 64×, Tell 32×, Was told 25×
- American Standard Version: Told 58×, Tell 28×, Declare 23×
- Berean Standard Bible: Tell 49×, Told 36×, Was told 18×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Declare 57×, Declared 35×, Tell 23×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H5046 across 370 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 118 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H5046 across 369 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 120 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 H5046 across 359 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 120 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 11 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H5046 across 431 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 84 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
7 senses and sub-senses in the full BDB
Hebrew verbs can shift meaning by stem (binyan): Qal is the basic action, Niphal is often passive or reflexive, Piel often intensifies or makes it factitive, and Hiphil is typically causative. The senses below are grouped under the stem BDB assigns to each. This entry also uses Hophal (the passive of Hiphil).
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 7 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.
Hiphil
- Pf. הִגִּיד Gn 3:11 +, 3 fs. הִגִּ֫ידָה 1 S 25:19 +, הִגַּדְתָּ Gn 12:8 +, etc.; Impf. יַגִּיד 1 S 9:6 +; וַיַּגֵּד Gn 9:22 +; sf. יַגִּידֶ֫הָ Is 44:7; יַגִּדָהּ Je 9:11; יַגֵּֽדְךָ Dt 32:7 (juss.), etc.; Imv. הַגֵּד 2 S 18:21 +; הַגִּ֫ידָה Gn 29:15 +, etc.; Inf. abs. הַגֵּד Ju 14:12 + 2 times; הַגִּיד Je 36:16; cstr. לְהַגִּיד Gn 32:6 +; לגיד 2 K 9:15 Kt. (Qr לְהַגּ׳); Pt. מַגִּיד Gn 41:24; +; f. מַגֶּ֫דֶת Est 2:20; pl. cstr. מַגִּידֵי Ju 14:19;—declare, tell [usually sq. לְ of indir. obj. Gn 3:11 + often; ins. also 1 S 12:7 2 S 13:34 𝔊 Th We Klo Dr Kit Bu, so HPS 2 S 13:34 (1 S 12:7 he foll. ℌ as more diff.); sq. אֶל Ex 19:9 1 S 3:15; sq. לִפְנֵי 1 S 17:31 ψ 142:3; עַל־פָּנָיו Jb 21:31; בְּאָזְנֵי Je 36:20; sq. בְּ loc. (instead of indir. obj.) chiefly proph. Je 4:5; 5:20; 31:10 +; also 1 S 4:13 2 S 1:20 2 K 9:15 Mi 1:10; rarely sq. acc. pers. 2 S 15:31 (but read וּלְדָוִד הִגִּיד HPS (indef. subj.), or ולד׳ הֻגַּד We Dr Kit, 𝔊 𝔙 Th Klo Bu favour הֻגַּד), 2 K 7:9, 11 Ez 43:10 Jb 17:5; 26:4; 31:37; sq. dir. obj. in acc. Gn 45:13 + often; sq. cl. wi. כִּי Gn 3:11 + often; sq. cl. wi. אֲשֶׁר = כִּי (late) Est 3:4; 6:2; sq. cl. wi. מָה Gn 29:15 Ju 16:15 Est 8:1 +; sq. cl. wi. מִי 2 K 6:11; sq. cl. wi. אֵיכָה Ct 1:7, once sq. cl. wi. הֲ Gn 43:6, etc.; often no dir. obj., sq. לֵאמֹר Ex 13:8 1 S 25:14 +; sq. וַיֹּאמֶר Gn 47:1 +; אמר then foll. by orat. rect.; הִגּ׳ alone sq. orat. rect. Zc 9:12; sq. עַל concerning, 1 S 27:11 Est 6:2; often indir. obj. om. 1 S 24:19 +; dir. obj. om. Ju 13:10 +; both om. Lv 5:1 +]. In Hex. rarely P, †Lv 5:1; 14:35 Ex 16:22†; J, Gn 3:11; 12:18 Ex 13:8 + 18 times; E, Gn 21:6; 31:20; 41:25 + 15 times; D, Dt 17:9; 26:3; 30:18 + 5 times;— e.g. Genesis 3:11
- 1. tell, announce, report, usually human subj. Gn 9:22; 24:23; 32:6 Lv 14:35 Ju 13:6 1 S 3:18 1 K 1:23 Ne 2:12 Est 2:10(×2) Jb 12:7 ψ 142:3 Is 19:12 Je 5:20 Ez 24:19 + e.g. Genesis 9:22
- 2. declare, make known, expound, especially of something before not understood, concealed or mysterious, Gn 3:11; 12:18, etc.; 1 K 10:3 = 2 Ch 9:2; a riddle Ju 14:12, 15, 16(×3), 19; dream Dn 2:2; secret Jb 11:6, etc.; of י׳ as revealing, Gn 41:25 2 S 7:11 2 K 4:27 Mi 6:8 Je 42:3 ψ 147:19; of declaring by י׳’s agents Dt 5:5 Mi 3:8 1 S 15:16 2 S 24:13 Je 50:28 Is 58:1; by divin. Ho 4:12. e.g. Genesis 3:11
- 3. inform of (play the informer concerning) Jos 2:14, 20 Je 20:10 Jb 17:5 Lv 5:1 Pr 29:24. e.g. Joshua 2:14
- 4. publish, declare, proclaim, especially of proclaiming wisdom, power, loving-kindness, etc., of י׳ (especially ψψ): ψ 9:12; 22:32; 51:17; 92:3, 16; 145:4 +, subj. heavens ψ 19:2; 50:6; 97:6; Is 42:12; 57:12. e.g. Psalms 9:12
- 5. avow, acknowledge, confess: Is 3:9 ψ 38:19, cf. Is 48:6.—Pt. = messenger 2 S 15:13 Je 51:31(×2) cf. הַנַּ֫עַר הַמַּגִּיד 2 S 1:5, 6, 13; הָאִישׁ הַמּ׳ 2 S 18:11. e.g. Isaiah 3:9
Hophal
- Pf. הֻגַּד Jos 9:24 +; Impf. וַיֻּגַּד Gn 22:20 +; Inf. abs. הֻגֵּד Jos 9:24 Ru 2:11;—be told, announced, reported, always sq. לְ (sometimes impers., logical subj. in acc., cf. Gn 27:42 2 S 21:11, c. fem. Is 21:2; not in P): Gn 27:42 (J), 31:22 (E), Dt 17:4 Jos 9:24(×2) (D), Ru 2:11(×2) Ju 9:25 2 S 10:17; 19:2; 21:11 1 K 10:7; 18:13 1 Ch 19:17 2 Ch 9:6 Is 21:2; 40:21; sq. לֵאמר Gn 22:20; 38:13, 24 (all J), Jos 10:17 (JE), 1 S 15:12; 19:19 2 S 6:12 1 K 1:51 2 K 6:13; 8:7 Is 7:2; sq. cl. with כִּי Ex 14:5 (J), Ju 9:47 1 S 23:7, 13; 27:4 1 K 2:29, 41. e.g. Joshua 9:24
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
vb. be conspicuous (NH in deriv.; Ph. n.pr.m. נגד; Arabic نَجَدَ conquer, overcome, also be apparent, conspicuous; نَجْدٌ high land or country; نَجُدَ be courageous, vigorous, effective, نَجِدٌ courageous, efficient; Aramaic ܢܓܰܕ, נְגַד drag, draw, lead; ܢܳܓܽܘܕܳܐ, נָגוֹדָא leader; Ethiopic ነገደ: is travel);—
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Origin: a primitive root
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.
אִינְגַּד
- prolong! go further! Git. 58ᵃ א׳ פוסתא וכ׳ go one page and a half further, (and you will find it). [Rashi: a little = אִי־נְגַד, v. אי III.]
נָגַד
- (b. h.) to draw a line; denom. נֶגֶד.
- (denom. of נֶגֶד) to show; to announce, tell; to testify. Tanḥ. Tsav 13 ומשם … והִגִּידָה לאהרן from there Miriam learned it and told Aaron. Ib. מַגִּיד שהכל מודים וכ׳ this shows (intimates) that all agreed as to her beauty. Snh. IV, 5 להַגִּיד גדולתו וכ׳ to show the greatness &c. Ib. 44ᵇ, a. e. (ref. to Lev. V, 1) כיון שה׳ שוב אינו חוזר ומַגִּיד after he has once testified, he cannot again testify, i.e. is not permitted to retract; a. v. fr.—[Pes. 87ᵃ, v. אָגַד.]—V. מַגִּיד. e.g. Leviticus 5:1
- to be told, proclaimed. Yalk. Koh. 989 שה׳ לה בסיני the word which has been proclaimed at Sinai; a. e.
- to oppose. Yeb. 63ᵃ; Yalk. Gen. 23 (ref. to כנגדו, Gen. II, 18) זכה כנגדו לא זכה מְנַגַּדְתּוֹ if he is favored, she will be corresponding to (in harmony with) him, if not, she will oppose him (Rashi: ‘she will be a lash to him’, v. נִגְדָּא II); Pirké’ d’R. El. ch. XII א"ת כנגדו אלא לנגדו אם זכה תהיה לו עזר ואם לאו לנַגְּדוֹ להלחם read not k’negdo, but l’nagg’do; if he is favored, she will be a help to him, if not, ‘to oppose him’, to fight. e.g. Genesis 2:18
נְגַד
- 1. (corresp. to h. מָשַׁךְ, נָטָה a. אָרַךְ) to stretch; to draw, pull, spread. Targ. Jud. XVI, 30. Targ. Deut. XXI, 3. Targ. Jer. XLIII, 10.—Targ. Ps. LV, 4 יִיגְּדוּן ed. Lag. (ed. Wil. יגרון; h. text ימיטו). Targ. Y. Deut. XVII, 20. Targ. Y. Ex. XII, 21 נגודו ידיכון וכ׳ withdraw your hands from (v. מָשַׁךְ); a. fr.—Succ. 4ᵇ גּוּד אסיק וכ׳ stretch and raise the partitions, i.e. adopt the legal fiction that the partitions around the stand are prolonged so as to reach the ceiling (v. דּוֹפָן). Sabb. 101ᵃ גוּד אחית וכ׳ stretch and bring the partitions down, i.e. adopt the fiction that the walls are prolonged so as to reach the bottom. Erub. 4ᵇ לְגוּד, v. לָבוּד. Gitt. 68ᵇ נְגִידוּ מיניה מיכליה (Rashi: נְגוּדוּ) withdraw his food from him, reduce his rations. B. Mets. 74ᵃ למידש ולמִנְגַּד to tread the grapes and to conduct the wine into the pit. Ib. 84ᵇ נַגְדוּ מתותיה וכ׳ they drew from under him sixty &c., v. מְשִׂיכְלָא. B. Bath. 111ᵇ גוד לית וכ׳ draw (take me away from here), this man does not want to learn. Pesik. B’shall., p. 90ᵃ; Koh. R. to X, 8 גוד חמי לי lead the way, show it to me. Bekh. 44ᵇ נגדו ליה גלימא they spread for him (held up between him and the people) a cloak. Erub. 94ᵃ שקולו … נְגִידוּ בה take a cloak and spread it (as a partition); a. v. fr.—Ab. I, 13 נְגַד שמא וכ׳ he who stretches his fame (is ambitious), will lose his name.
- 2. to lash, v. Pa.
- 3. to guide, rule. Targ. Ruth I, 1 (h. text שפט).
- 4. to grow long; to be drawn, follow after; to flow. Targ. Job XXI, 33 (h. text ימשוך). Targ. Jer. VI, 4 (h. tex ינטו). Targ. Cant. I, 4 נְגִדְנָא וכ׳ we are drawn after &c. Targ. Deut. XXXIII, 13; 22; a. fr. (v. נְגַר).—B. Bath. 91ᵇ והוה נָגֵיד חוטא וכ׳ a line of honey flowed over both his arms; Y. Peah VII, 20ᵃ bot. ונ׳ מלא וכ׳ and honey flowed as much as my hands could hold; a. e.—Part. pass. נְגִיד stretched, fainting (v. Ithpe.). Targ. Ps. LXXXVIII, 16.—Sabb. 152ᵃ, v. Ithpe.
- (denom. of נִגְדָּא II) to lash, punish. Targ. Cant. VII, 5 למִינְגַּד … לנַגָּדָא.—Keth. 33ᵇ נַגְּדוּהָ, v. אִלְמָלֵא. Kidd. 12ᵇ נַגְּדֵיה כרב punish him in accordance with Rab’s practice. Pes. 52ᵃ ולִינַגְּדֵיה מר נַגּוּדֵי Ms. (ed. נגידי, corr. acc.) why do you not order him to be lashed?; a. e.
- to declare liable to lashes. Kidd. l. c.; Yeb. 52ᵃ, a. e. רב מַנְגִּיד (על) וכ׳ Rab decreed punishment for him who &c. Kidd. l. c. לא מינגיד רב (read: מנגיד, as) Yeb. l. c.
- , אִינְּגִיד, Ithpa. אִתְנַגַּד
- 1. to be drawn, to extend; to run. Targ. Is. XXXIV, 11. Targ. Y. Num. XXV, 8. Targ. Y. Gen. XLV, 19. Targ. Is. XLIV, 3; a. e.
- 2. to spread, invade. Targ. I Sam. XXVII, 10 (h. text פשט); a. e.
- 3. to be withdrawn. Targ. Josh. IV, 18; a. e.
- 4. [to stretch one’s self,] to faint, fall away, die (h. גָּוַע). Targ. Gen. XXV, 8; a. fr.—Pes. 50ᵃ חלש וא׳ כי וכ׳ was sick and fainted (seemed to be dead), and when he came to &c.; B. Bath. 10ᵇ. Snh. 39ᵃ א׳ ואתנח he became faint and sighed; Sabb. 152ᵃ נגיד ואתנח.
- 5. to be lashed. Macc. 11ᵃ; Pes. 113ᵇ מִינְּגִיד, v. זִיגּוֹד.—[Kidd. 12ᵇ מינגיד, v. supra.]
נֶגֶד
- line, direction; prep. נֶ׳, mostly כְּנֶ׳ towards, opposite, corresponding to. Sifra Tsav, Milluim, Par. 1 והלא כבר זיוג … זה נ׳ זה has not the Scripture, before this, paired the two rams, one to correspond with the other? Tam. II, 5 (29ᵃ) כנ׳ מערבית דרומית משוך וכ׳ (Mish. ed. מִכְּנֶ׳) in a line with the south-west corner of the altar continued northward to a distance of &c.; Zeb. 58ᵃ. Ib. אם שחטן כְּנֶגְדָּן בקרקע if he slaughtered them in the corresponding direction, but in the ground. Mekh. Yithro, Baḥod, s. 11 (ref. to Ex. XX, 24) כְּנֶגְדּוֹ ‘alav means in a certain direction opposite the altar (not on top of it). Ber. 10ᵃ הנהו … כנ׳ מי אמרן with reference to whom did David compose these five psalms beginning with bar’khi nafshi? Ib. 26ᵇ כנ׳ תמידין corresponding to the daily offerings. Num. R. s. 18 המחלוקת הזו אינה כְּנֶגְדֵּנוּ אלא כנ׳ וכ׳ this rebellion is not directed against us but against &c.; a. v. fr.—Yeb. 63ᵃ (ref. to Gen. II, 18) זכה … לא זכה כנגדו if he is favored, she will be his help, if not, she will be against him; ib. כתיב כנַגְּדוֹ וקרינן כְּנֶיגְדּוֹ (missing in Yalk. Gen. 23) following the writing we may read k’nagg’do (opposing him, v. נָגַד), but the Massoretic reading is k’negdo (corresponding to him); Gen. R. s. 17 זכה עזר ואם לאו כנגדו; Pirké d’R. El. ch. XII, v. נָגַד.—מִנֶּ׳ at a distance. Num. R. s. 2 (ref. to Num. II, 2) מהו מנ׳ what distance is meant by minneged?. Ib. ילפינן מנ׳ מנ׳ וכ׳ we draw an analogy between minneged (Num. l. c.) and minneged (Gen. XXI, 16) &c.; Gen. R. s. 53 הא למדנו נגד מנגד. e.g. Exodus 20:24
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The 180 distinct written forms H5046 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that stem’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
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Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 327 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 344 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
- Genesis 3:11
- Exodus 4:28
- Leviticus 5:1
- Numbers 11:27
- Deuteronomy 4:13
- Joshua 2:14
- Judges 4:12
- Ruth 2:11
- 1 Samuel 3:13
- 2 Samuel 1:4
- 1 Kings 1:20
- 2 Kings 4:2
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