--- title: חַג — festival-gathering · The Tanakh dictionary description: חַג (2282), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 62 times: festival-gathering. BDB 1906: n.m. festival-gathering, feast, pilgrim-feast. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2282.html) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [dictionaries](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/) / [ח](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/1495.md)‎ / חַג‎ # חַג «חַג» in the Tanakh dictionary: **festival-gathering** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers. **Used:** 62 times · **Key:** 2282 · **BDB:** חַג ### Glosses the.festival (25); a.festival (13); festival (9) ### Meaning (OSHB) festival-gathering [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2282/#m1) ### Meaning (BDB 1906) n.m. festival-gathering, feast, pilgrim-feast [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2282/#m2) **The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Is 29:1 festival-gathering, feast, pilgrim-feast (NH id.; Aramaic ܚܰܓܳܐ, חַגָּא; Arabic حَجٌّ pilgrimage; Sab. חג DHMEpigr. Denkm. 31; NöZMG 1887, 719; RSProph. Lect. ii. n. 6; \> WeSkizzen iii. 106, 165 sacred dance)—חַג abs. and cstr. Ex 10:9 + 36 times; חָ֑ג Nu 28:17 + 13 times; sf. חַגִּי Ex 23:18; חַגֶּךָ֑ Dt 16:14; חַגָּהּ Ho 2:13; חַגֵּנוּ ψ 81:4; pl. חַגִּים Is 29:1 + 2 times; sf. חַגַּיִךְ Na 2:1; חַגֵּיכֶם Am 5:21 + 2 times;— feast, especially one observed by a pilgrimage (Ex 23:14, 17): special feast to the golden calf Ex 32:5 (J; where there was a sacred dance v 19); a feast in the 8th month observed by Jeroboam in place of the feast of the 7th month in Judah 1 K 12:32, 33; pilgrim feast proposed by Moses Ex 10:9 (JE); feast at Shiloh Ju 21:19. Elsewhere apparently always of the three great pilgrim feasts, celebrated by processions and dancing: (1) in general Is 30:29 Am 8:10 Na 2:1; חגים ינקפו let feasts come round Is 29:1; ‖ עצרות Am 5:21; חַג לי׳ Lv 23:41 (H); disting. from the more gen. מועדים (sacred seasons) Ez 45:17; 46:11 Ho 9:5 (יום חג), and from specif. חדשׁים, שׁבתות as well, Ho 2:13; (2) in particular: unleavened cakes and Passover חג (ה)מצות Ex 23:15 = 34:18 (JE); Lv 23:6 (P), Dt 16:16 2 Ch 8:13; 30:13, 21; 35:17 Ezr 6:22; חג Ex 12:14 (P); first day of the seven Nu 28:17 (P); the last day Ex 13:6 (J); the seven Ez 45:21, 23; חג חפסח Ex 34:25, חגי Ex 23:18 (both JE); בַּכֶּסֶה לְיּוֹם חַגֵּנוּ ψ 81:4 (probably the full moon of Passover); חג הקציר Ex 23:16 = חג שׁבעת Ex 34:22 (JE), cf. Dt 16:10, 16 2 Ch 8:13; חג האס(י)ף Ex 23:16 = 34:22 (JE) = חג הסכ(ו)ת Lv 23:34 (P), Dt 16:13, 16; 31:10 2 Ch 8:13 Ezr 3:4 Zc 14:16, 18, 19; also חג י׳ Lv 23:39 (H), הֶחָג 1 K 8:2, 65 = 2 Ch 5:3; 7:8, 9, Ez 45 Ne 8:14; חַגֶּךָ֑ (i.e. of people) Dt 16:14; 7 days Nu 29:12 (P), Ne 8:18.—Vbs. c. חג are: חגג Lv 23:39, 41 (H), Ex 12:14 Nu 29:12 (P), Na 2:1 Zc 14:16, 18, 19; שׁמר Ex 23:15 = 34:18 (JE); התקדשׁ Is 30:29; but usually עשׂה Ex 34:22 (JE), Dt 16:10, 13 1 K 8:65; 12:32, 33 2 Ch 7:8, 9; 30:13, 21; 35:17 Ezr 3:4; 6:22 Ne 8:18. festival sacrifice (cf. NH חֲגִיגָה) ψ 118:27 (see מזבח 12); Mal 2:3 (RV after Thes Ke al.: but AV Ew Or feast). Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 54 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (5 candidates) ### Trees and pragmatics [Every English meaning of «חַג» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2282/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames. ### In the verses [Hosea 9:5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HOS.9.5/) מַֽה־תַּעֲשׂ֖וּ לְי֣וֹם מוֹעֵ֑ד וּלְי֖וֹם חַג־יְהוָֽה׃ *Word for word:* what? will.you.do to.\[the\] day of.an.appointed.feast and to the.day of.the.festival of.Yahweh *JPS 1917:* What will ye do in the day of the appointed season, and in the day of the feast of the LORD? [Amos 5:21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/AMO.5.21/) שָׂנֵ֥אתִי מָאַ֖סְתִּי חַגֵּיכֶ֑ם וְלֹ֥א אָרִ֖יחַ בְּעַצְּרֹֽתֵיכֶֽם׃ *Word for word:* I.hate I.reject feasts your and not I.delight in assemblies your *JPS 1917:* I hate, I despise your feasts, and I will take no delight in your solemn assemblies. - ← previous: [חֲבִתִּים](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2281.md) - next →: [חָגָּא](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2283.md) - ↑ back to [ח](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/1495.md)