Strong's #4046: maggephah (pronounced mag-gay-faw')
from 5062; a pestilence; by analogy, defeat:--(X be) plague(-d), slaughter, stroke.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
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maggêphâh
1) blow, slaughter, plague, pestilence, strike, smite
1a) blow (fatal stroke)
1b) slaughter (of battle)
1c) plague, pestilence (divine judgment)
Part of Speech: noun feminine
Relation: from H5062
Usage:
This word is used 26 times:
Exodus 9:14: "send all my plagues upon thine heart, and upon thy servants, and upon thy people;"
Numbers 14:37: "report upon the land, died by the plague before the LORD."
Numbers 16:48: "between the dead and the living; and the plague was stayed."
Numbers 16:49: "Now they that died in the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred,"
Numbers 16:50: "the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: and the plague was stayed."
Numbers 25:8: "and the woman through her belly. So the plague was stayed from the children"
Numbers 25:9: "And those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand."
Numbers 25:18: "their sister, which was slain in the day of the plague for Peor's sake."
Numbers 26:1: "And it came to pass after the plague, that the Lord spoke unto Moses and unto"
Numbers 31:16: "the matter of Peor, and there was a plague among the congregation of the LORD."
1 Samuel 4:17: "and there hath been also a great slaughter among the people, and thy two sons also,"
1 Samuel 6:4: "of the Philistines: for one plague was on you all, and on your lords."
2 Samuel 17:9: "that whosoever heareth it will say, There is a slaughter among the people that follow"
2 Samuel 18:7: "and there was there a great slaughter that day of twenty thousand"
2 Samuel 24:21: "of thee, to build an altar unto the LORD, that the plague may be stayed from"
2 Samuel 24:25: "So the LORD was entreated for the land, and the plague was stayed from Israel."
1 Chronicles 21:17: "on me, and on my father's house; but not on thy people, that they should be plagued."
1 Chronicles 21:22: "thou shalt grant it me for the full price: that the plague may be stayed from the people."
2 Chronicles 21:14: "Behold, with a great plague will the LORD smite thy people, and thy children, and thy wives,"
Psalms 106:29: "Thus they provoked him to anger with their inventions: and the plague broke in"
Psalms 106:30: "Then stood up Phinehas, and executed judgment: and so the plague was stayed."
Ezekiel 24:16: "thee the desire of thine eyes with a stroke: yet neither shalt thou mourn nor weep,"
Zechariah 14:12: "And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all"
Zechariah 14:15: "And so shall be the plague of the horse, of the mule, of the camel, and of the ass, and of all"
Zechariah 14:15: "in these tents, as this plague."
Zechariah 14:18: "and come not, that have no rain; there shall be the plague, wherewith the LORD will smite"
