Strong's Hebrew · H2287

חָגַג

châgag · khaw-gag'

celebrate, dance, (keep, hold) a (solemn) feast (holiday), reel to and fro.

Definition

properly, to move in acircle, i.e. (specifically) to march in asacred procession, to observe afestival; by implication, to be giddy

Derivation

a primitive root (compare H2283 (חָגָא), H2328 (חוּג));

Appears 16 times in Scripture

Leviticus 23:41

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.

Zechariah 14:16

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.

Exodus 12:14

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.

Exodus 5:1

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.’”

Leviticus 23:39

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.

Zechariah 14:19

This will be the punishment of Egypt and of all the nations that do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles.

Zechariah 14:18

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.

Exodus 23:14

Three times a year you are to celebrate a feast to Me.

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Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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