עוֹג
Og
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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
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
Every verse where H5747 appears in the Book of 1 Kings — 1 distinct verse. 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.
1 Kings
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.
At its core, עוג (ʻÔwg) means “Og.” Scripture first uses it in Numbers 21:33. With 22 verses in 6 books, it is an uncommon word in the Hebrew Bible. Its uses concentrate in Deuteronomy (45% of all occurrences). Dig into 22-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H5747 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 →
- 22
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 22 distinct verses.
- 6 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 6 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #1,412
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 1,412 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 22 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Deuteronomy 10 verses 45%
- Joshua 6 verses 27%
- Numbers 2 verses 9%
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 22 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 12 verses · 55%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 7 verses · 32%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 3 verses · 14%
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: Og 21×
- American Standard Version: Og 21×
- Berean Standard Bible: Og 22×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Og 22×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H5747 across 22 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 H5747 across 22 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.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H5747 across 22 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H5747 across 22 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
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.
- Og = "long-necked"
- the Amorite king of Bashan and one of the last representatives of the giants of Rephaim
Word origin
and (1 K 4:19) עֹג n.pr.m. (orig. n.pr. div. according to RSSem i.91, 2nd ed. 93);—Og, giant king of Bashan (i.e., peculiarly, of a country, v. RSl.c.), usually + סִיחוֹן (q.v.); Nu 21:33 (JE), 32:33 (P), Dt 1:4; 3:1, 3, 4, 10, 11, 13; 4:47; 29:6; 31:4; Jos 2:10; 9:10; 12:4; 13:12, 30, 31 (prob. all D), 1 K 4:19; Ne 9:22 ψ 135:11; 136:20; 𝔊 Ωγ (Γωγ B Dt 3:1; 4:47).
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from עוג (ʻûwg) (H5746) — to bake.
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.
עָגַג
- ) (cmp. עגל) [to round, roll, press; denom. עוּגָּה, fr. which]
- 1. to draw (cmp. חגג). Taan. III, 8 (19ᵃ); 23ᵃ עג עוגה he drew a circle.—[
- 2. to make a cake. Ez. IV, 12.] e.g. Ezekiel 4:12
עוֹג
- (b. h.) pr. n. m. Og, king of Bashan. Gen. R. s. 42 (ref. to Gen. XIV, 13) הוא ע׳ הוא פליט Og is the one that escaped; Tanḥ. Ḥuck. 25. Ber. 54ᵃ אבן … לזרוק ע׳ וכ׳ the stone which Og king of Bashan wanted to cast upon Israel. Ib.ᵇ, a. fr. e.g. Genesis 14:13
עוּג
- , v. עָגַג
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 14 distinct written forms H5747 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ע֖וֹג | Noun, Proper | Deuteronomy 3:4 | 4 |
| וּ֭/לְ/עוֹג | Noun, Proper | Psalms 135:11 | 2 |
| ע֚וֹג | Noun, Proper | Deuteronomy 1:4 | 2 |
| ע֣וֹג | Noun, Proper | Deuteronomy 4:47 | 2 |
| ע֥וֹג | Noun, Proper | Deuteronomy 3:3 | 2 |
| עוֹג֩ | Noun, Proper | Deuteronomy 3:1 | 2 |
| וְ/ע֨וֹג | Noun, Proper | Deuteronomy 29:7 | 1 |
| וְ/עֹג֙ | Noun, Proper | 1 Kings 4:19 | 1 |
| וּ/לְ/ע֔וֹג | Noun, Proper | Joshua 2:10 | 1 |
| וּ/לְ/ע֛וֹג | Noun, Proper | Deuteronomy 31:4 | 1 |
| וּ/לְ/ע֥וֹג | Noun, Proper | Joshua 9:10 | 1 |
| ע֔וֹג | Noun, Proper | Deuteronomy 3:13 | 1 |
| ע֞וֹג | Noun, Proper | Deuteronomy 3:11 | 1 |
| עוֹג֙ | Noun, Proper | Joshua 13:12 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H5747, 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.
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Shares the same root
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Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Og). 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
Gigantic, the king of Bashan, who was defeated by Moses in a pitched battle at Edrei, and was slain along with his sons (Deut. 1:4), and whose kingdom was given to the tribes of Reuben and Gad and half the tribe of Manasseh (Num. 21:32-35; Deut. 3:1-13). His bedstead (or rather sarcophagus) was of iron (or ironstone), 9 cubits in length and 4 cubits in breadth. His overthrow was afterwards celebrated in song (Ps. 135:11; 136:20). (See SIHON.)
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(giant, literally long-necked), an Amoritish king of Bashan, whose rule extended over sixty cities. (Joshua 13:12) He was one of the last representatives of the giant race of Rephaim, and was, with his children and his people, defeated and exterminated by the Israelites at Edrei immediately after the conquest of Sihon. (Numbers 32:33; 3:1-13) Also (1:4; 4:47; 31:4; Joshua 2:10; 9:10; 13:12,30) The belief in Og's enormous stature is corroborated by an allusion to his iron bedstead preserved in "Rabbath of the children of Ammon." (3:11) (B.C. 1461.)
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
a cake; bread baked in ashes
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 20 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 22 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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