Strong’s H5063 · Hebrew

נֶגֶף
negeph
neh'-ghef

Definition

a trip (of the foot); figuratively, an infliction (of disease)

Etymology

from H5062 (נָגַף);

Where the KJV renders it

  • plague
  • stumbling

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

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