נַגָּח
apt to gore
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
- Adjective
- A word that describes or qualifies a noun.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H5056 appears — 2 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.
Exodus 2 verses
- Exodus 21:29 נַגָּ֨ח adj Adjective ms But if the bull had a habit of goring in the past, and it has been testified to its owner, and he has not kept it in, but it has killed a man or a woman, the bull shall be stoned, and its owner shall also be put to death.
- Exodus 21:36 נַגָּ֥ח adj Adjective ms Or if it is known that the bull was in the habit of goring in the past, and its owner has not kept it in, he shall surely pay bull for bull, and the dead animal shall be his own.
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.
נגח — transliterated naggâch — is a Hebrew adjective carrying the sense “apt to gore.” A scarce word — 2 verses in all of the Hebrew Bible. More than three-quarters of its appearances fall in Exodus. Debuting at Exodus 21:29, it then recurs through the corpus. See the sense tree, 2-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H5056 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 →
- 2
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 2 distinct verses.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #4,807
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 4,807 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 2 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Exodus 2 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 2 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 2 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: Hath used to push 1×, Were wont to push with his horn 1×
- American Standard Version: Was wont to gore 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Goring 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Had a habit of goring 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H5056 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H5056 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H5056 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H5056 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
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.
- addicted to goring, apt to gore
Word origin
adj. addicted to goring, pred. of שׁוֹר Ex 21:29, 36 (E), cf. BaNB 49.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from נגח (nâgach) (H5055) — to gore.
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.
נָגַח
- (b. h.) to break forth (v. גִּיחַ); to gore, butt, fight. B. Kam. V, 1 שור שנ׳ וכ׳ if an ox gored a cow, and her embryo is found (dead) by her side. Ib. אם עד שלא נְגָחָהּ וכ׳ whether she gave birth before he gored her. Tosef. ib. IV, 6 עד שיתכוין לִיגַּח unless he pushes intentionally. Ib. 10 יש בנוֹגֵחַ וכ׳ there are laws concerning the butter (that killed a person) which do not apply &c.; a. v. fr.—[Gen. R. s. 32, end נוגח דם some ed., read: גּוֹנֵחַ.]
- same. Ḥull. 51ᵃ זכרים המְנַגְּחִין וכ׳ rams that butt one another. Ex. R. s. 41, end אתמול מְנַגֵּחַ בהם וכ׳ yesterday he (Moses) pushed them (the angels of destruction) away, and now he is afraid of them. Tanḥ. Balak 3; Num. R. s. 20, beg. מה שור מנ׳ … מְנַגְּחִים וכ׳ as the ox fights with his horns, so do the Israelites fight (their enemies) with their prayers. Ber. 56ᵇ נְגָחוֹ … שמְנַגְּחִין בתורה if (in his dream) an ox attacked him, he will have children who fight in (discussing) the Law; a. fr.—Part. pass. מְנוּגָּח. Tosef. B. Kam. III, 6 אפי׳ זה מנ׳ even if the one is found gored.
- to stir up to fighting. B. Kam. IV, 4 כי יִגַּח שלא שיַגִּיחוּהוּ ‘if he butt’ (Ex. XXI, 28), but not when they stir him up (in the arena). e.g. Exodus 21:28
- to fight with one another. Tanḥ. Vayigg. 4 שור וארי מִתְנַגְּחִין וכ׳ ox and lion fighting with each other; a. e.
נְגַח
- Targ. O. Ex. XXI, 28 (ed. Vien. יַגַּח Af.).—B. Kam. 47ᵃ כי נַגְחָהּ at the time he gored her; a. e.—נ׳ קרבא to wage war. Targ. Y. Gen. XXI, 10 (v. גִּיחַ).—Part. pass. נְגִיחַ breaking through, flowing over. B. Bath. 68ᵇ דנ׳ קאיהו לגיו Ms. M. (ed. קאיהי; Rashb. דנגח; Ms. F. a. R. דנגחקייהו in one w., Ar. דנגהק׳, corr. acc.) when their outlet runs inside of the township (v. קָאיָיא, cmp. גִּיהָא).—Trnsf. enough (cmp. דַּי). M. Kat. 16ᵇ לא … בתיגריה נְגִיחָא לך ed. Ven. (v. Rashi a. l.) have you not enough (that I escorted you thus far)? attend now to your business yourself; v. נְגַהּ.
- same. Targ. Ps. XLIV, 6; a. e.—B. Kam. 21ᵃ; Sot. 48ᵃ מְנַגַּח כי תורא he butts like an ox.
- same. Tosef. Sot. XIII, 5, a. e. לאַגָּחָא קרבא to wage war. Nidd. 65ᵇ דמַגְּחֵי וכ׳ Var., v. גִּיחַ a. נְגַהּ.
נַגַּח
- (preced.) wont to gore, a butter. Targ. O. Ex. XXI, 29; 36 (some ed. נַגָּח).
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 2 distinct written forms H5056 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| נַגָּ֥ח | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Exodus 21:36 | 1 |
| נַגָּ֨ח | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Exodus 21:29 | 1 |
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 2 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 2 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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