King James Bible
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STRONGS NUMBER H4046
Transliteration: maggephah
Phonetic Spelling: (mag-gay-faw')
Part of Speech: Noun Feminine
Short Definition: a blow, slaughter, plague, pestilence
Meaning: a blow, slaughter, plague, pestilence
Word Summary
maggephah: a blow, slaughter, plague, pestilence
Original Word: מַגֵּפָהTransliteration: maggephah
Phonetic Spelling: (mag-gay-faw')
Part of Speech: Noun Feminine
Short Definition: a blow, slaughter, plague, pestilence
Meaning: a blow, slaughter, plague, pestilence
Strong's Concordance
be plagued, slaughter, stroke From nagaph; a pestilence; by analogy, defeat -- (X be) plague(-d), slaughter, stroke.
see HEBREW nagaph
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H4046. maggephah
מַגֵּפָה noun feminine blow, slaughter, plague, pestilence; — ׳מ absolute Numbers 14:37 23t.; construct מַגֵּפַת Zechariah 14:15; plural suffix מַגֵּפֹתַי Exodus 9:14; —
1 blow, = fatal stroke Ezekiel 24:16; in divine judgment (plague) Exodus 9:14 (J).
2 slaughter in battle, 1 Samuel 4:17; 2 Samuel 17:9; 18:7.
3 plague, pestilence (divine judgment), of tumours on Philistines 1 Samuel 6:4; against Israel Numbers 14:37; 17:13; Numbers 17:14; Numbers 17:15; 25:8; 25:9; 25:18; Numbers 25:19; 31:16; 2 Samuel 24:21; 24:25 (insert also 24:15 ᵐ5 Th We Klo Dr Kit Bu), 1 Chronicles 21:22; Psalm 106:29; 106:30; specifically disease of bowels 2 Chronicles 21:14; ׳מ = infected people 1 Chronicles 21:17; wasting of flesh, eyes and tongue, of hostile peoples Zechariah 14:12, 18; attacking beasts 14:15; 14:15.