Strong's Definition
a primitive root (compare 2283, 2328); properly, to move in a circle, i.e. (specifically) to march in a sacred procession, to observe a festival; by implication, to be giddy
KJV Usage: celebrate, dance, (keep, hold) a (solemn) feast (holiday), reel to and fro
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
חָגַג (cha.gag) — to celebrate. 1) to hold a feast, hold a festival, make pilgrimage, keep a pilgrim-feast, celebrate, dance, stagger 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to keep a pilgrim-feast 1a2) to reel
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
verb · חַג
Unsteady | verb qal | ≈ נוע
to reel, to stagger = action by which humans move about in an unsteady way ◄ like someone who is drunk
Festivals | verb qal
to hold a festival, to celebrate = action by which humans hold a celebration, usually of a religious nature, involving animal sacrifices; ≈ associated with joy
Festivals | verb qal
Collocation: חגג חַג
to hold a festival, to hold a feast = causative action by which humans hold a celebration, usually of a religious nature, involving animal sacrifices; ≈ associated with joy
EXO 12:14 · EXO 12:14 · LEV 23:39 · LEV 23:41 · LEV 23:41 · NUM 29:12 · NAM 2:1 · ZEC 14:16 · ZEC 14:18 · ZEC 14:19
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
[חָגַג] vb. make a pilgrimage, keep a pilgrim-feast base
