רָגַלrâgal
foot it, go about
Pronunciation: raw-gal' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H7270
Meanings
Qal: go about, maliciously, as slanderer (Psalms 15:3; Psalms 15:2)
Pi`el
1. slander, (compare Qal) (2 Samuel 19:28)
2. go about as explorer, spy, as substantive, spies (Numbers 21:32; Joshua 6:25; Joshua 7:2)
Tiph`el: taught, to walk (Hosea 11:3)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 25 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 42:9 And he remembered the dreams he’d had about them many years before. He said to them, “You are spies! You have come to see how vulnerable our land has become.”
- Genesis 42:11 We are all brothers—members of the same family. We are honest men, sir! We are not spies!”
- Genesis 42:14 But Joseph insisted, “As I said, you are spies!
- Genesis 42:16 One of you must go and get your brother. I’ll keep the rest of you here in prison. Then we’ll find out whether or not your story is true. By the life of Pharaoh, if it turns out that you don’t have a younger brother, then I’ll know you are spies.”
- Genesis 42:30 “The man who is governor of the land spoke very harshly to us,” they told him. “He accused us of being spies scouting the land.
- Genesis 42:31 But we said, ‘We are honest men, not spies.
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).