STRONGS NUMBER H5050


Word Summary
nagah: to shine
Original Word: נָגַהּ
Transliteration: nagah
Phonetic Spelling: (naw-gah')
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to shine
Meaning: to glitter, to illuminate
Strong's Concordance
enlighten, cause to shine

A primitive root; to glitter; causatively, to illuminate -- (en-)lighten, (cause to) shine.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H5050. nagah

נָגַהּverb shine (Assyrian nagû, shine, beam, be joyful, DlHWB 446; Ethiopic Aramaic ; Late Hebrew נוֺגְהָא ᵑ7‎ planet Venus) —

Qal Perfect נ ׳ועלדֿרכיך אוֺרJob 22:28; נ ׳אור עליהםIsaiah 9:1; Imperfect אִשּׁוֺ שְׁבִיב ולאיִֿגַּהּJob 18:5.

Hiph`il Imperfect

1 enlighten חָשְׁכִּי יַגִּיהַּ ויהוה2 Samuel 22:29 = הּשׁכי יַגִּהַּ אלהי יהוהPsalm 18:29.

2 cause to shine (of moon) אוֺרוֺ׃ יַגִּיהַּ לאֿ וְיָרֵחַIsaiah 13:10 ("" חָשַׁך‎).