חַגchag
festival-gathering, feast, pilgrim-feast
Pronunciation: khag · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H2282
Meanings
1. feast, especially one observed by a pilgrimage (Exodus 23:14; Exodus 23:17)
a. special feast (Exodus 32:5; Exodus 32:19; 1 Kings 12:32)
b. in general, let feasts come round (Isaiah 30:29; Amos 8:10; Nahum 2:1)
2. festival sacrifice (Psalms 118:27; Malachi 2:3)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 62 times in the Bible.
- Exodus 10:9 Moses replied, “We will all go—young and old, our sons and daughters, and our flocks and herds. We must all join together in celebrating a festival to the Lord.”
- Exodus 12:14 “This is a day to remember. Each year, from generation to generation, you must celebrate it as a special festival to the Lord. This is a law for all time.
- Exodus 13:6 For seven days the bread you eat must be made without yeast. Then on the seventh day, celebrate a feast to the Lord.
- Exodus 23:15 First, celebrate the Festival of Unleavened Bread. For seven days the bread you eat must be made without yeast, just as I commanded you. Celebrate this festival annually at the appointed time in early spring, in the month of Abib, for that is the anniversary of your departure from Egypt. No one may appear before me without an offering.
- Exodus 23:16 “Second, celebrate the Festival of Harvest, when you bring me the first crops of your harvest. “Finally, celebrate the Festival of the Final Harvest at the end of the harvest season, when you have harvested all the crops from your fields.
- Exodus 23:18 “You must not offer the blood of my sacrificial offerings together with any baked goods containing yeast. And do not leave the fat from the festival offerings until the next morning.
See every passage
- Exodus 10:9, 12:14, 13:6, 23:15, 23:16, 23:18, 32:5, 34:18, 34:22, 34:25
- Leviticus 23:6, 23:34, 23:39, 23:41
- Numbers 28:17, 29:12
- Deuteronomy 16:10, 16:13, 16:14, 16:16, 31:10
- Judges 21:19
- 1 Kings 8:2, 8:65, 12:32, 12:33
- 2 Chronicles 5:3, 7:8, 7:9, 8:13, 30:13, 30:21, 35:17
- Ezra 3:4, 6:22
- Nehemiah 8:14, 8:18
- Psalms 81:3, 118:27
- Isaiah 29:1, 30:29
- Ezekiel 45:17, 45:21, 45:23, 45:25, 46:11
- Hosea 2:11, 9:5
- Amos 5:21, 8:10
- Nahum 1:15
- Zechariah 14:16, 14:18, 14:19
- Malachi 2:3
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).