Strongs's #2287: chagag - Greek/Hebrew Definitions

Greek/Hebrew Definitions

Strong's #2287: chagag (pronounced khaw-gag')

a primitive root (compare 2283, 2328); properly, to move in a circle, i.e. (specifically) to march in a sacred procession, to observe a festival; by implication, to be giddy:--celebrate, dance, (keep, hold) a (solemn) feast (holiday), reel to and fro.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

châgag

1) to hold a feast, hold a festival, make pilgrimage, keep a pilgrim-feast, celebrate, dance, stagger

1a) (Qal)

1a1) to keep a pilgrim-feast
1a2) to reel

Part of Speech: verb
Relation: a primitive root [compare H2283, H2328]

Usage:

This word is used 16 times:

Exodus 5:1: "of Israel, Let my people go, that they may hold a feast unto me in the wilderness."
Exodus 12:14: "day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall keep it a feast to the LORD throughout your generations; ye shall keep it a feast"
Exodus 12:14: "it a feast to the LORD throughout your generations; ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance forever."
Exodus 23:14: "Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto me in the year."
Leviticus 23:39: "when ye have gathered in the fruit of the land, ye shall keep a feast unto the LORD"
Leviticus 23:41: " And ye shall keep it a feast unto the LORD seven days in the year. It shall be a statute forever"
Leviticus 23:41: "It shall be a statute forever in your generations: ye shall celebrate it in the seventh month."
Numbers 29:12: "ye shall do no servile work, and ye shall keep a feast unto the LORD"
Deuteronomy 16:15: "Seven days shalt thou keep a solemn feast unto the LORD thy God in the place which the LORD"
1 Samuel 30:16: "all the earth, eating and drinking, and dancing, because of all the great spoil"
Psalms 42:4: "of joy with a multitude that kept holyday."
Psalms 107:27: " They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits' end."
Nahum 1:15: "that publisheth peace! O Judah, keep thy solemn feasts, perform thy vows: for"
Zechariah 14:16: "to year to worship the King, of hosts, and to keep the feast"
Zechariah 14:18: "the heathen come not up to keep the feast"
Zechariah 14:19: "nations that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles."

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