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title: נְגֹהָה — brightness · The Tanakh dictionary
description: נְגֹהָה (5054), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: brightness. BDB 1906: n.f. brightness. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# נְגֹהָה

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«נְגֹהָה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **brightness** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 5054 · **BDB:** נְגֹהָה

### Glosses

gleams.of.light (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

brightness [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5054/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. brightness [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5054/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. brightness; fig. of prosperity;—pl. לִנְגֹהוֹת Is 59:9 (opp. אֲפֵלוֹת; ‖ אוֹר).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «נְגֹהָה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5054/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Isaiah 59:9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.59.9/)

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עַל־כֵּ֗ן רָחַ֤ק מִשְׁפָּט֙ מִמֶּ֔נּוּ וְלֹ֥א תַשִּׂיגֵ֖נוּ צְדָקָ֑ה נְקַוֶּ֤ה לָאוֹר֙ וְהִנֵּה־חֹ֔שֶׁךְ לִנְגֹה֖וֹת בָּאֲפֵל֥וֹת נְהַלֵּֽךְ׃

*Word for word:* therefore it.is.far justice from us and not it reaches.us righteousness we.wait.eagerly for the light and there! darkness for gleams.of.light in (the) gloom(s) we.walk

*JPS 1917:* Therefore is justice far from us, neither doth righteousness overtake us; we look for light, but behold darkness, for brightness, but we walk in gloom.

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