Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
vengeance
Usage: 1) vengeance 1a) vengeance (by God, by Israel, by enemies of Israel)
Neqamah means “vengeance” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's G5360 — philadelphia (“love of the brethren”) in the Greek Bible.
Strong's H5360 נְקָמָה (nqamah) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. nqamah (nek-aw-maw') n-f. 1. avengement, whether the act of the passion [feminine of H5359] It has 22 linked Bible usages across 7 books. Visible English usage signals include vengeance, avenge, and revenge. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
nqamah (nek-aw-maw') n-f. 1. avengement, whether the act of the passion [feminine of H5359] KJV: + avenge, revenge(-ing), vengeance. Root(s): H5359
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vengeance
Usage: 1) vengeance 1a) vengeance (by God, by Israel, by enemies of Israel)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render nqamah, 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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22 indexed usages in Old Testament.
Avenge the children of Israel of the Midianites: afterward shalt thou be gathered unto thy people.
And Moses spake unto the people, saying, Arm some of yourselves unto the war, and let them go against the Midianites, and avenge the LORD of Midian.
And she said unto him, My father, if thou hast opened thy mouth unto the LORD, do to me according to that which hath proceeded out of thy mouth; forasmuch as the LORD hath taken vengeance for thee of thine enemies, even of the children of Ammon.
First 22 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H5360.
Avenge the children of Israel of the Midianites: afterward shalt thou be gathered unto thy people.
And Moses spake unto the people, saying, Arm some of yourselves unto the war, and let them go against the Midianites, and avenge the LORD of Midian.
And she said unto him, My father, if thou hast opened thy mouth unto the LORD, do to me according to that which hath proceeded out of thy mouth; forasmuch as the LORD hath taken vengeance for thee of thine enemies, even of the children of Ammon.
And they brought the head of Ishbosheth unto David to Hebron, and said to the king, Behold the head of Ishbosheth the son of Saul thine enemy, which sought thy life; and the LORD hath avenged my lord the king this day of Saul, and of his seed.
It is God that avengeth me, and that bringeth down the people under me.
It is God that avengeth me, and subdueth the people under me.
Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is their God? let him be known among the heathen in our sight by the revenging of the blood of thy servants which is shed.
O Lord God, to whom vengeance belongeth; O God, to whom vengeance belongeth, shew thyself.
To execute vengeance upon the heathen, and punishments upon the people;
But, O LORD of hosts, that judgest righteously, that triest the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for unto thee have I revealed my cause.
For I heard the defaming of many, fear on every side. Report, say they, and we will report it. All my familiars watched for my halting, saying, Peradventure he will be enticed, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.
But, O LORD of hosts, that triest the righteous, and seest the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for unto thee have I opened my cause.
For this is the day of the Lord GOD of hosts, a day of vengeance, that he may avenge him of his adversaries: and the sword shall devour, and it shall be satiate and made drunk with their blood: for the Lord GOD of hosts hath a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphrates.
Shout against her round about: she hath given her hand: her foundations are fallen, her walls are thrown down: for it is the vengeance of the LORD: take vengeance upon her; as she hath done, do unto her.
The voice of them that flee and escape out of the land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of the LORD our God, the vengeance of his temple.
Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and deliver every man his soul: be not cut off in her iniquity; for this is the time of the LORD's vengeance; he will render unto her a recompence.
Make bright the arrows; gather the shields: the LORD hath raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes: for his device is against Babylon, to destroy it; because it is the vengeance of the LORD, the vengeance of his temple.
Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will plead thy cause, and take vengeance for thee; and I will dry up her sea, and make her springs dry.
Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their imaginations against me.
And I will lay my vengeance upon Edom by the hand of my people Israel: and they shall do in Edom according to mine anger and according to my fury; and they shall know my vengeance, saith the Lord GOD.
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 great vengeance upon them with furious rebukes; and they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall lay my vengeance upon them.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H5360, grouped by book.
Neqamah (Strong's H5360) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "vengeance". nqamah (nek-aw-maw') n-f. 1. avengement, whether the act of the passion [feminine of H5359]
This page currently indexes 22 linked usages for Strong's H5360 across 7 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H5360 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as vengeance, avenge, and revenge. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.