Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
vengeance
Usage: 1) vengeance 1a) vengeance (by God, by Samson, by enemies of Judah)
Naqam means “quarrel” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's G5359 — philadelpheia (“Philadelphia”) in the Greek Bible.
Strong's H5359 נָקָם (naqam) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. naqam (naw-kawm') n-m. 1. revenge [from H5358] It has 17 linked Bible usages across 8 books. Visible English usage signals include vengeance, quarrel, avenged, and revenge. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
naqam (naw-kawm') n-m. 1. revenge [from H5358] KJV: + avenged, quarrel, vengeance. Root(s): H5358
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vengeance
Usage: 1) vengeance 1a) vengeance (by God, by Samson, by enemies of Judah)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render naqam, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
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17 indexed usages in Old Testament.
And I will bring a sword upon you, that shall avenge the quarrel of my covenant: and when ye are gathered together within your cities, I will send the pestilence among you; and ye shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.
To me belongeth vengeance and recompence; their foot shall slide in due time: for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste.
If I whet my glittering sword, and mine hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to mine enemies, and will reward them that hate me.
First 17 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H5359.
And I will bring a sword upon you, that shall avenge the quarrel of my covenant: and when ye are gathered together within your cities, I will send the pestilence among you; and ye shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.
To me belongeth vengeance and recompence; their foot shall slide in due time: for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste.
If I whet my glittering sword, and mine hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to mine enemies, and will reward them that hate me.
Rejoice, O ye nations, with his people: for he will avenge the blood of his servants, and will render vengeance to his adversaries, and will be merciful unto his land, and to his people.
And Samson called unto the LORD, and said, O Lord God, remember me, I pray thee, and strengthen me, I pray thee, only this once, O God, that I may be at once avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes.
The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.
For jealousy is the rage of a man: therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance.
For it is the day of the LORD's vengeance, and the year of recompences for the controversy of Zion.
Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not: behold, your God will come with vengeance, even God with a recompence; he will come and save you.
Thy nakedness shall be uncovered, yea, thy shame shall be seen: I will take vengeance, and I will not meet thee as a man.
For he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and an helmet of salvation upon his head; and he put on the garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloak.
To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn;
For the day of vengeance is in mine heart, and the year of my redeemed is come.
That it might cause fury to come up to take vengeance; I have set her blood upon the top of a rock, that it should not be covered.
Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because that Edom hath dealt against the house of Judah by taking vengeance, and hath greatly offended, and revenged himself upon them;
Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because the Philistines have dealt by revenge, and have taken vengeance with a despiteful heart, to destroy it for the old hatred;
And I will execute vengeance in anger and fury upon the heathen, such as they have not heard.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H5359, grouped by book.
Naqam (Strong's H5359) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "quarrel". naqam (naw-kawm') n-m. 1. revenge [from H5358]
This page currently indexes 17 linked usages for Strong's H5359 across 8 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H5359 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as vengeance, quarrel, avenged, and revenge. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.