H4046Noun, feminine26 times in the Hebrew BibleWhere it occurs
Translated as
In the text
- Numbers 14:37בַּמַּגֵּפָה
those men who had brought out the bad report about the land—were struck down by a plague before the LORD.
- 1 Samuel 4:17מַגֵּפָה
The messenger answered, “Israel has fled before the Philistines, and there has been a great slaughter among the people. Your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, are both dead, and the ark of God has been captured.”
- 2 Samuel 17:9מַגֵּפָה
Surely by now he is hiding in a cave or some other location. If some of your troops fall first, whoever hears of it will say, ‘There has been a slaughter among the troops who follow Absalom.’
- 1 Chronicles 21:17לְמַגֵּפָה ס
And David said to God, “Was it not I who gave the order to count the people? I am the one who has sinned and acted wickedly. But these sheep, what have they done? O LORD my God, please let Your hand fall upon me and my father’s house, but do not let this plague remain upon Your people.”
- Psalm 106:29מַגֵּפָה
So they provoked the LORD to anger with their deeds, and a plague broke out among them.
- Zechariah 14:12הַמַּגֵּפָה
And this will be the plague with which the LORD strikes all the peoples who have warred against Jerusalem: Their flesh will rot while they stand on their feet, their eyes will rot in their sockets, and their tongues will rot in their mouths.
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Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.