Strong's #5358: naqam (pronounced naw-kam')
a primitive root; to grudge, i.e. avenge or punish:--avenge(-r, self), punish, revenge (self), X surely, take vengeance.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
nâqam
1) to avenge, take vengeance, revenge, avenge oneself, be avenged, be punished
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to avenge, take vengeance
1a2) to entertain revengeful feelings
1b) (Niphal)
1b1) to avenge oneself
1b2) to suffer vengeance
1c) (Piel) to avenge
1d) (Hophal) to be avenged, vengeance be taken (for blood)
1e) (Hithpael) to avenge oneself
Part of Speech: verb
Relation: a primitive root
Usage:
This word is used 35 times:
Genesis 4:15: "whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And the LORD set a mark"
Genesis 4:24: "If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold."
Exodus 21:20: "and he die under his hand; he shall be surely punished."
Exodus 21:20: "and he die under his hand; he shall be surely punished."
Exodus 21:21: "or two, he shall not be punished: for he is his money."
Leviticus 19:18: "Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love"
Leviticus 26:25: "And I will bring a sword upon you, that shall avenge the quarrel of my covenant: and when ye are gathered together within"
Numbers 31:2: " Avenge the children of Israel of the Midianites: afterward"
Deuteronomy 32:43: "O ye nations, with his people: for he will avenge the blood of his servants, and will render vengeance"
Joshua 10:13: "stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. Is not this written"
Judges 15:7: "ye have done this, yet will I be avenged of you, and after that I will cease."
Judges 16:28: "this once, O God, that I may be at once avenged of the Philistines"
1 Samuel 14:24: "any food until evening, that I may be avenged on mine enemies. So none"
1 Samuel 18:25: "a hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged of the king's enemies. But Saul thought"
1 Samuel 24:12: "judge between me and thee, and the LORD avenge me of thee: but mine hand shall not be"
2 Kings 9:7: "the house of Ahab thy master, that I may avenge the blood of my servants the prophets, and the blood"
Esther 8:13: "should be ready against that day to avenge themselves on their enemies."
Psalms 8:2: "because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger."
Psalms 44:16: "of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth; by reason of the enemy and avenger."
Psalms 99:8: "wast a God that forgavest them, though thou tookest vengeance of their inventions."
Isaiah 1:24: "Ah, I will ease me of mine adversaries, and avenge me of mine enemies:"
Jeremiah 5:9: "and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?"
Jeremiah 5:29: "the LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?"
Jeremiah 9:9: "the LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?"
Jeremiah 15:15: "knowest: remember me, and visit me, and revenge me of my persecutors; take me not"
Jeremiah 46:10: "of hosts, a day of vengeance, that he may avenge him of his adversaries: and the sword shall devour,"
Jeremiah 50:15: "it is the vengeance of the LORD: take vengeance upon her; as she hath done, do"
Jeremiah 51:36: "I will plead thy cause, and take vengeance for thee; and I will dry up"
Ezekiel 24:8: "That it might cause fury to come up to take vengeance; I have set her blood upon"
Ezekiel 25:12: "hath dealt against the house of Judah by taking vengeance, and hath greatly offended, and revenged himself"
Ezekiel 25:12: "by taking vengeance, and hath greatly offended, and revenged himself"
Ezekiel 25:15: "the Philistines have dealt by revenge, and have taken vengeance with a despiteful heart, to destroy"
Nahum 1:2: "God is jealous, and the LORD revengeth; the LORD revengeth, and is furious;"
Nahum 1:2: "and the LORD revengeth; the LORD revengeth, and is furious; the LORD will take vengeance"
Nahum 1:2: "revengeth, and is furious; the LORD will take vengeance on his adversaries, and he reserveth"
