Hebrew Word Study · Strong’s H4046
מַגֵּפָה
mag.ge.phah · “plague”
Used 26 times across 9 books
Definition
1) blow, slaughter, plague, pestilence, strike, smite
1a) blow (fatal stroke)
1b) slaughter (of battle)
1c) plague, pestilence (divine judgment)
1a) blow (fatal stroke)
1b) slaughter (of battle)
1c) plague, pestilence (divine judgment)
Where it appears
Exodus1
Numbers9
1 Samuel2
2 Samuel4
1 Chronicles2
2 Chronicles1
Psalms2
Ezekiel1
Zechariah4
In the text
Exodus 9:14For I will at this time send all my plagues upon thine heart, and upon thy servants, and upon thy people; that thou mayest know that there is none like me in all the earth.Numbers 14:37Even those men that did bring up the evil report upon the land, died by the plague before the Lord.Numbers 17:13Whosoever cometh any thing near unto the tabernacle of the Lord shall die: shall we be consumed with dying?Numbers 17:14Numbers 17:15Numbers 25:8And he went after the man of Israel into the tent, and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her belly. So the plague was stayed from the children of Israel.Numbers 25:9And those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand.Numbers 25:18For they vex you with their wiles, wherewith they have beguiled you in the matter of Peor, and in the matter of Cozbi, the daughter of a prince of Midian, their sister, which was slain in the day of the plague for Peor’s sake.Numbers 25:19Numbers 31:16Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against the Lord in the matter of Peor, and there was a plague among the congregation of the Lord.
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