Strong's Hebrew · H2287
H2287 châgag
חָגַג
khaw-gag'
to celebrate
Looking for Greek G2287 thanatḗphoros? It has the same number in Strong's Greek lexicon but is a different word, not a translation of H2287. Strong's numbering starts again for each language.
châgag appears 16 times in Scripture, including Exodus 5:1 and Leviticus 23:39. In the Doxa app, open any verse that uses it, keep your notes on it, and ask Doxa Engage how it connects to what God has said to you.
Definition
properly, to move in a circle, i.e. (specifically) to march in a sacred procession, to observe a festival; by implication, to be giddy
In the King James Version
celebrate, dance, (keep, hold) a (solemn) feast (holiday), reel to and fro.
Derivation
Appears 16 times in Scripture
“You are to celebrate this as a feast to the LORD for seven days each year. This is a permanent statute for the generations to come; you are to celebrate it in the seventh month.”
“Then all the survivors from the nations that came against Jerusalem will go up year after year to worship the King, the LORD of Hosts, and to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles.”
“And this day will be a memorial for you, and you are to celebrate it as a feast to the LORD, as a permanent statute for the generations to come.”
“After that, Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Let My people go, so that they may hold a feast to Me in the wilderness.’””
“On the fifteenth day of the seventh month, after you have gathered the produce of the land, you are to celebrate a feast to the LORD for seven days. There shall be complete rest on the first day and also on the eighth day.”
“This will be the punishment of Egypt and of all the nations that do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles.”
“And if the people of Egypt will not go up and enter in, then the rain will not fall on them; this will be the plague with which the LORD strikes the nations who do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles.”
“Three times a year you are to celebrate a feast to Me.”
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Word study: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), with glosses and editions from STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org); Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0); Strong's Greek Dictionary in XML by Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen (CC0). Sources and changes Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).
