Gematria of Plague
7 Hebrew words of the lexicon are rendered “plague” in our Hebrew lexicon, and they stand 407 times between them in the twenty-four books. Hebrew and English do not answer one another word for word, so every candidate is here and none of them is called the translation.
- Hebrew equivalents
- 7
- Occurrences
- 407
- Distinct values
- 5
The 7 Hebrew words rendered “plague”
The count beside each word is every form of it the twenty-four books use — inflected, and with its prefixes — as the morphology tags them. The link under each row opens the search on the dictionary spelling alone, which is a different question and usually a smaller number, and it says so.
properly, to touch, i.e. lay the hand upon (for any purpose; euphemistically, to lie with a woman); by implication, to reach (figuratively, to arrive, acquire); violently, to strike (punish, defeat, destroy, etc.)
First appearance ·Genesis 3:3בראשית ג:גתִגְּעוּ
a blow (figuratively, infliction); also (by implication) a spot (concretely, a leprous person or dress)
First appearance ·Genesis 12:17בראשית יב:יזנְגָעִים
to push, gore, defeat, stub (the toe), inflict (a disease)
First appearance ·Exodus 7:27שמות ז:כזנֹגֵף
a wound; figuratively, carnage, also pestilence
First appearance ·Leviticus 26:21ויקרא כו:כאמַכָּה
a pestilence; by analogy, defeat
First appearance ·Exodus 9:14שמות ט:ידמַגֵּפֹתַי
a trip (of the foot); figuratively, an infliction (of disease)
First appearance ·Exodus 12:13שמות יב:יגנֶגֶף
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Quick answers
What is the gematria of plague?
The Tanakh renders “plague” with 7 Hebrew words, each with its own gematria in the standard method: נגע = 123, נגף = 133, דבר = 206, and 2 more.
How do you say plague in Hebrew?
The Tanakh uses 7 Hebrew words for “plague”; the most frequent are נגע (nâgaʻ), 228 times; נגף (nâgaph), 56 times; דבר (deber), 49 times. Every one is listed on this page.
The Hebrew words on this page and their English senses come from our Hebrew lexicon, credited on the About page. Every value, every count and every reference is computed from the Westminster Leningrad Codex at the moment this page is served — the consonantal written text, vowel points and cantillation stripped, exactly as the search engine computes it.