נֵרְגָּ֑ל
Nergal
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Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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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
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
Every verse where H5370 appears — 1 distinct verse 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.
2 Kings 1 verse
About this entry
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נרגל (Nêrᵉgal) is a Hebrew name most often rendered “Nergal.” With only 1 verse it sits in the long tail of Hebrew Bible vocabulary. It clusters heavily in 2 Kings, which alone accounts for 100% of its uses. Scripture uses it exactly once, at 2 Kings 17:30. The sections below give every occurrence and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H5370 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 →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #6,101
- by frequency
- Rank #6,101 (rank 6,101 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 2 Kings 1 verse 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 1 distinct verse.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 1 verse · 100%
How translations render this word
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- King James Version: Nergal 1×
- American Standard Version: Nergal 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Nergal 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Nergal 1×
King James Version Public Domain
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American Standard Version Public Domain
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
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Senses in BDB
The 2 senses 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.
- Nergal = "hero"
- one of the chief deities of Assyria and Babylon and worshipped by the men of Cuth
Word origin
נֵרְגָּ֑ל n.pr.div. worshipped by men of Cuth 2 K 17:30
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Origin: of foreign origin
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.
נֵרְגַל
- (b. h.) pr. n. Nergal,
- 1. a deity of the Cutheans (v. Schr. KAT2, p. 282, sq.). Snh. 63ᵇ (quoting II Kings XVII, 30 נרגול), expl. תרנגול a cock; Y. Ab. Zar. III, 42ᵈ top ריגליה דיעקב וריגליה דיוסף וכ׳ Nergal has the meaning of luck in the sense in which the Scripture speaks of the luck of Jacob (Gen. XXX, 27 בגללך, for which לרגלו in verse 30) and the luck of Joseph (ib. XXXIX, 5 בגלל), v. רִגְלָא. e.g. 2 Kings 17:30
- 2. N. Sarezzar, one of the princes of Nebuchadnezzar. Targ. II Esth. I, 2 (3).
נִרְגָּל
- , v. רָגַל
רָגַל
- (b. h.) to move on, run.—[Part. pass., v. רָגוּל.]
- (v. רָגִיל) to be wont to. Nidd. 16ᵇ שרֹ הנִרְגָּל וכ׳ a magistrate (a scholar) who is an habitual visitor of drinking houses; v. רָגַז a. רָגַן.
- 1. (denom. of (denom. of רֶגֶל) to flay an animal from its feet upward (in order to use the skin as a bag, v. חֵמֶת). Ḥull. IX, 3 המַרְגִּיל וכ׳ if one flays from the feet upward, the entire skin is considered as connected (with the flesh, as long as the process lasts) for purposes of levitical cleanness. Tosef. Bets. II, 11 אין מַרְגִּילִין וכ׳ we must not flay from the feet on a Holy Day, nor on a week day when the animal is a firstborn &c.; Bekh. 33ᵃ; Tem. 24ᵃ
- 2. to make familiar, to accustom. Sabb. 13ᵃ שמא יַרְגִּילֶנּוּ אצלו lest he make him accustomed to associate with him. Ib. וכי מַרְגִּילוֹ וכ׳ and if he does accustom him, what of it? Ab. III, 13 שחוק … מַרְגִּילִין וכ׳, v. קַלּוּת; a. e.
- 3. to lead; to persuade. Ber. 60ᵇ ותַרְגִּילֵנִי לידי מצוה ואל תרגילני וכ׳ and lead me into the power (to the opportunity) of good deeds, and lead me not into the power of sin. Ib. שתרגילני בתורתך that thou mayest lead me by thy Law.—Yeb. 85ᵇ זהו מַרְגִּילוֹ וזוהי מַרְגִּילָתוֹ in the one case he leads (persuades) her to marry him, in the other case she persuades him; a. fr.
- 4. to bring about; cause. Ber. 22ᵃ, sq. המרגיל (sub. קרי) who causes an effusion of semen, opp. לאונסו.
- to accustom one’s self, get used to. Y. Sabb. I, 3ᶜ top שהוא מִתְרַגֵּל עמו וכ׳ when he gets used to associate with him when he is unclean himself, he is likely to associate with him when he is clean. Y. Ned. XI, end, 42ᵈ יעשו סעודה והן מִתְרַגְּלִין לַבָּא וכ׳ (some ed. לבוא) let a banquet be arranged, and they (the disaffected couple) will get used in future to associate with each other through the influence of the banquet.
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.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H5370, 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.
Proper names from this root
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Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Nergal). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Easton's Bible Dictionary · M. G. Easton, 1897
The great dog; that is, lion, one of the chief gods of the Assyrians and Babylonians (2 Kings 17:30), the god of war and hunting. He is connected with Cutha as its tutelary deity.
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(hero), one of the chief Assyrian and Babylonian deities, seems to have corresponded closely to the classical Mars. (2 Kings 17:30) It is conjectured that he may represent the deified Nimrod.
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
the great man; the hero
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 1 verse that also exists in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 1 Hebrew verse it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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