H4046 - מַגֵּפָה (maggêphâh)

H4046 מַגֵּפָה (maggêphâh) mag-gay-faw'

Hebrew

Noun (Feminine, Hebrew)

Quick Definition

plague

Strong's Definition

a pestilence; by analogy, defeat

Derivation: from H5062 (נָגַף);

KJV Usage: ([idiom] be) plague(-d), slaughter, stroke.

TWOT Reference: 1294b

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) blow, slaughter, plague, pestilence, strike, smite

1a) blow (fatal stroke)

1b) slaughter (of battle)

1c) plague, pestilence (divine judgment)

Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents

This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:

G684 G4127

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

1) blow, slaughter, plague, pestilence, strike, smite 1a) blow (fatal stroke) 1b) slaughter (of battle) 1c) plague, pestilence (divine judgment)

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

מַגֵּפָה maggêphâh BDB Definition: 1) blow, slaughter, plague, pestilence, strike, smite 1a) blow (fatal stroke) 1b) slaughter (of battle) 1c) plague, pestilence (divine judgment) Part of Speech: noun feminine A Related Word by BDB/Strongs Number: from H5062 Same Word by TWOT Number: 1294b Total KJV Occurrences: 26

Bible Occurrences (25)

9:14

14:37 16:48 16:49 16:50 25:8 25:9 25:18 26:1 31:16

4:17 6:4

17:9 18:7 24:21 24:25

21:17 21:22

21:14

106:29 106:30

24:16

14:12 14:15 14:18

Exodus 9:14

Otherwise......, I will send all My plagues against you and your officials and your people, so you may know that [there is] no one like Me in all the earth.

Numbers 14:37

those men who had brought out the bad report about the land— were struck down by a plague before the LORD.

Numbers 16:48

He stood between... the living and the dead, and the plague was halted.

Numbers 16:49

But those who died from the plague numbered 14,700...,......... in addition to those who had died on account of Korah.

Numbers 16:50

Then Aaron returned to Moses at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting, since the plague had been halted.

Numbers 25:8

followed... the Israelite... into his tent, and drove [the spear] through both of them— through the Israelite and on through the belly of the woman. So the plague against the Israelites... was halted,

Numbers 25:9

but those who died in the plague numbered 24,000.......

Numbers 25:18

For they assailed you deceitfully when they seduced you in the matter of Peor and their sister Cozbi, the daughter of the Midianite leader, [the woman] who was killed on the day the plague came because of Peor.