מַגֵּפָהmaggêphâh
blow, slaughter, plague, pestilence
Pronunciation: mag-gay-faw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H4046
Meanings
1. blow, = fatal stroke (Ezekiel 24:16; Exodus 9:14)
2. slaughter (1 Samuel 4:17; 2 Samuel 17:9; 2 Samuel 18:7)
3. plague, pestilence (1 Samuel 6:4; Numbers 14:37; Numbers 17:13)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 26 times in the Bible.
- Exodus 9:14 If you don’t, I will send more plagues on you and your officials and your people. Then you will know that there is no one like me in all the earth.
- Numbers 14:37 were struck dead with a plague before the Lord.
- Numbers 16:48 He stood between the dead and the living, and the plague stopped.
- Numbers 16:49 But 14,700 people died in that plague, in addition to those who had died in the affair involving Korah.
- Numbers 16:50 Then because the plague had stopped, Aaron returned to Moses at the entrance of the Tabernacle.
- Numbers 25:8 and rushed after the man into his tent. Phinehas thrust the spear all the way through the man’s body and into the woman’s stomach. So the plague against the Israelites was stopped,
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).