Biblical names

Nogah נגה

Nogah (נגה) is a person named in the Tanakh. Nogah appears 88,340 times as a letter sequence in the Torah at skips 2–5,000, in line with the 88,443 chance alone would give.

Found in the Torah
88,340
Chance alone
88,443
P (≥ found)
0.64
Shortest skip
2

Skips 2–5,000, both directions, final letters folded, the written text — the laboratory's own defaults.

In the Torah

88,340 sequences of נגה at skips 2–5,000 in the Torah, close to the 88,443 that chance alone would produce.

Its smallest skip in the Torah is 2 — the first at Genesis 21:9, reading forward.

Counting every skip from 2 to 152,424, the Torah holds 1,360,839 sequences of נגה, against about 1,370,823 from chance alone.

A three-letter spelling is common at these skips: in a text of 304,850 letters chance alone produces about 88,443 of it, so a large count is expected.

  • Genesis 21,523
  • Exodus 14,361
  • Leviticus 18,753
  • Numbers 19,254
  • Deuteronomy 14,449

The shortest skips

  1. Genesis 21:9בראשית כא:טskip 2, forward

    וַתֵּרֶא שָׂרָה אֶֽת־בֶּן־הָגָר הַמִּצְרִית אֲשֶׁר־יָלְדָה לְאַבְרָהָם מְצַחֵֽק

    And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne unto Abraham, making sport.

    נגה at skip 2, forward from Genesis 21:9שרהאתבהרמצריתאשןגה
    skip 2, width 2 — the matrix is as wide as the skip, so the sequence reads down one column.

    letter 25,697Open in the laboratory →

  2. Genesis 31:48בראשית לא:מחskip 2, forward

    וַיֹּאמֶר לָבָן הַגַּל הַזֶּה עֵד בֵּינִי וּבֵינְךָ הַיּוֹם עַל־כֵּן קָרָֽא־שְׁמוֹ גַּלְעֵֽד

    And Laban said: ‘This heap is witness between me and thee this day.’ Therefore was the name of it called Galeed;

    נגה at skip 2, forward from Genesis 31:48יאמרלבהלזהעדבינןגה
    skip 2, width 2 — the matrix is as wide as the skip, so the sequence reads down one column.

    letter 46,090Open in the laboratory →

  3. Genesis 32:19בראשית לב:יטskip 2, forward

    וְאָֽמַרְתָּ לְעַבְדְּךָ לְיַעֲקֹב מִנְחָה הִוא שְׁלוּחָה לַֽאדֹנִי לְעֵשָׂו וְהִנֵּה גַם־הוּא אַחֲרֵֽינוּ

    then thou shalt say: They are thy servant Jacob’s; it is a present sent unto my lord, even unto Esau; and, behold, he also is behind us.’

    נגה at skip 2, forward from Genesis 32:19לעשווההםואאחריננגה
    skip 2, width 2 — the matrix is as wide as the skip, so the sequence reads down one column.

    letter 47,481Open in the laboratory →

  4. Exodus 40:24שמות מ:כדskip 2, forward

    וַיָּשֶׂם אֶת־הַמְּנֹרָה בְּאֹהֶל מוֹעֵד נֹכַח הַשֻּׁלְחָן עַל יֶרֶךְ הַמִּשְׁכָּן נֶֽגְבָּה

    And he put the candlestick in the tent of meeting, over against the table, on the side of the tabernacle southward.

    נגה at skip 2, forward from Exodus 40:24רךהמשכנבויעלהנרןגה
    skip 2, width 2 — the matrix is as wide as the skip, so the sequence reads down one column.

    letter 141,014Open in the laboratory →

  5. Leviticus 17:10ויקרא יז:יskip 2, forward

    וְאִישׁ אִישׁ מִבֵּית יִשְׂרָאֵל וּמִן־הַגֵּר הַגָּר בְּתוֹכָם אֲשֶׁר יֹאכַל כָּל־דָּם וְנָתַתִּי פָנַי בַּנֶּפֶשׁ הָאֹכֶלֶת אֶת־הַדָּם וְהִכְרַתִּי אֹתָהּ מִקֶּרֶב עַמָּֽהּ

    And whatsoever man there be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among them, that eateth any manner of blood, I will set My face against that soul that eateth blood, and will cut him off from among his people.

    נגה at skip 2, forward from Leviticus 17:10שראלומהרגרבתוכםןגה
    skip 2, width 2 — the matrix is as wide as the skip, so the sequence reads down one column.

    letter 168,579Open in the laboratory →

Across the Tanakh

392,628 sequences of נגה at skips 2–5,000 in the whole Tanakh, close to the 393,433 that chance alone would produce.

  • Genesis 21,523
  • Exodus 14,361
  • Leviticus 18,753
  • Numbers 19,254
  • Deuteronomy 15,364
  • Joshua 27,403
  • Judges 14,239
  • Samuel 29,455
  • Kings 20,908
  • Isaiah 25,654
  • Jeremiah 26,860
  • Ezekiel 26,437
  • The Twelve 25,460
  • Psalms 25,011
  • Proverbs 6,434
  • Job 8,471
  • Song of Songs 2,559
  • Ruth 2,063
  • Lamentations 3,528
  • Ecclesiastes 3,610
  • Esther 3,783
  • Daniel 11,264
  • Ezra–Nehemiah 14,401
  • Chronicles 25,833

Outside the Torah

  1. Joshua 8:33יהושע ח:לגskip 2, forward

    וְכָל־יִשְׂרָאֵל וּזְקֵנָיו וְשֹׁטְרִים וְשֹׁפְטָיו עֹמְדִים מִזֶּה וּמִזֶּה לָאָרוֹן נֶגֶד הַכֹּהֲנִים הַלְוִיִּם נֹשְׂאֵי אֲרוֹן בְּרִית־יְהוָה כַּגֵּר כָּֽאֶזְרָח חֶצְיוֹ אֶל־מוּל הַר־גְּרִזִים וְהַֽחֶצְיוֹ אֶל־מוּל הַר־עֵיבָל כַּאֲשֶׁר צִוָּה מֹשֶׁה עֶֽבֶד־יְהוָה לְבָרֵךְ אֶת־הָעָם יִשְׂרָאֵל בָּרִאשֹׁנָֽה

    And all Israel, and their elders and officers, and their judges, stood on this side the ark and on that side before the priests the Levites, that bore the ark of the covenant of the LORD, as well the stranger as the home-born; half of them in front of mount Gerizim and half of them in front of mount Ebal; as Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded at the first, that they should bless the people of Israel.

    נגה at skip 2, forward from Joshua 8:33זהלארונדכהניםהלןגה
    skip 2, width 2 — the matrix is as wide as the skip, so the sequence reads down one column.

    letter 317,413Open in the laboratory →

  2. Joshua 15:1יהושע טו:אskip 2, forward

    וַיְהִי הַגּוֹרָל לְמַטֵּה בְּנֵי יְהוּדָה לְמִשְׁפְּחֹתָם אֶל־גְּבוּל אֱדוֹם מִדְבַּר־צִן נֶגְבָּה מִקְצֵה תֵימָֽן

    And the lot for the tribe of the children of Judah according to their families was unto the border of Edom, even to the wilderness of Zin southward, at the uttermost part of the south.

    נגה at skip 2, forward from Joshua 15:1םמדברצנבמקצהתימןגה
    skip 2, width 2 — the matrix is as wide as the skip, so the sequence reads down one column.

    letter 327,723Open in the laboratory →

  3. Joshua 15:8יהושע טו:חskip 2, forward

    וְעָלָה הַגְּבוּל גֵּי בֶן־הִנֹּם אֶל־כֶּתֶף הַיְבוּסִי מִנֶּגֶב הִיא יְרֽוּשָׁלִָם וְעָלָה הַגְּבוּל אֶל־רֹאשׁ הָהָר אֲשֶׁר עַל־פְּנֵי גֵֽי־הִנֹּם יָמָּה אֲשֶׁר בִּקְצֵה עֵֽמֶק־רְפָאִים צָפֹֽנָה

    And the border went up by the Valley of the son of Hinnom unto the side of the Jebusite southward—the same is Jerusalem—and the border went up to the top of the mountain that lieth before the Valley of Hinnom westward, which is at the uttermost part of the vale of Rephaim northward.

    נגה at skip 2, forward from Joshua 15:8אשרעלפיינםימהאשנגה
    skip 2, width 2 — the matrix is as wide as the skip, so the sequence reads down one column.

    letter 328,176Open in the laboratory →

The spelling

נגה — the Tanakh's own spelling. Searched as נגה, 3 letters, with a standard gematria value of 58.

As a plain word it stands 6 times in the Tanakh, first at Isaiah 9:1. Every word of the Tanakh in the Word Index →

Questions

Is Nogah in the Torah codes?

88,340 sequences of נגה at skips 2–5,000 in the Torah, close to the 88,443 that chance alone would produce.

What is the shortest skip for Nogah in the Torah?

Skip 2, reading forward from Genesis 21:9 — the shortest of 88,340 sequences at skips 2–5,000, where chance alone would give about 88,443.

How is Nogah spelled in Hebrew?

Nogah is spelled נגה — 3 letters searched, with a standard gematria value of 58.

Is Nogah in the Bible code across the whole Tanakh?

392,628 sequences of נגה at skips 2–5,000 in the whole Tanakh, close to the 393,433 that chance alone would produce.

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