מַגֵּפָה maggêphâh

Meaning

a pestilence; by analogy, defeat

In the King James Version: ([idiom] be) plague(-d), slaughter, stroke.

Derivation: from H5062 (נָגַף);

Where it is used

• Exodus 9:14 Otherwise, I will send all My plagues against you and your officials and your people, so you may know that there is no one like Me in all the earth.
• Numbers 14:37 those men who had brought out the bad report about the land—were struck down by a plague before the LORD.
• Numbers 16:48 He stood between the living and the dead, and the plague was halted.
• Numbers 16:49 But those who died from the plague numbered 14,700, in addition to those who had died on account of Korah.
• Numbers 16:50 Then Aaron returned to Moses at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting, since the plague had been halted.
• Numbers 25:8 followed the Israelite into the tent, and drove the spear through both of them—through the Israelite and on through the belly of the woman. So the plague against the Israelites was halted,
• Numbers 25:9 but those who died in the plague numbered 24,000.
• Numbers 25:18 For they assailed you deceitfully when they seduced you in the matter of Peor and their sister Cozbi, the daughter of the Midianite leader, the woman who was killed on the day the plague came because of Peor.”
• Numbers 26:1 After the plague had ended, the LORD said to Moses and Eleazar son of Aaron the priest,
• Numbers 31:16 “Look, these women caused the sons of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to turn unfaithfully against the LORD at Peor, so that the plague struck the congregation of the LORD.
• 1 Samuel 4:17 The messenger answered, “Israel has fled before the Philistines, and there has been a great slaughter among the people. Your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, are both dead, and the ark of God has been captured.”
• 1 Samuel 6:4 “What guilt offering should we send back to Him?” asked the Philistines. “Five gold tumors and five gold rats,” they said, “according to the number of rulers of the Philistines, since the same plague has struck both you and your rulers.
• 2 Samuel 17:9 Surely by now he is hiding in a cave or some other location. If some of your troops fall first, whoever hears of it will say, ‘There has been a slaughter among the troops who follow Absalom.’
• 2 Samuel 18:7 There the people of Israel were defeated by David’s servants, and the slaughter was great that day—twenty thousand men.
• 2 Samuel 24:21 “Why has my lord the king come to his servant?” Araunah said. “To buy your threshing floor,” David replied, “that I may build an altar to the LORD, so that the plague upon the people may be halted.”
• 2 Samuel 24:25 And there he built an altar to the LORD and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. Then the LORD answered the prayers on behalf of the land, and the plague upon Israel was halted.
• 1 Chronicles 21:17 And David said to God, “Was it not I who gave the order to count the people? I am the one who has sinned and acted wickedly. But these sheep, what have they done? O LORD my God, please let Your hand fall upon me and my father’s house, but do not let this plague remain upon Your people.”
• 1 Chronicles 21:22 Then David said to Ornan, “Grant me the site of this threshing floor, that I may build an altar to the LORD. Sell it to me for the full price, so that the plague upon the people may be halted.”
• 2 Chronicles 21:14 So behold, the LORD is about to strike your people, your sons, your wives, and all your possessions with a serious blow.
• Psalms 106:29 So they provoked the LORD to anger with their deeds, and a plague broke out among them.
• Psalms 106:30 But Phinehas stood and intervened, and the plague was restrained.
• Ezekiel 24:16 “Son of man, behold, I am about to take away the desire of your eyes with a fatal blow. But you must not mourn or weep or let your tears flow.
• Zechariah 14:12 And this will be the plague with which the LORD strikes all the peoples who have warred against Jerusalem: Their flesh will rot while they stand on their feet, their eyes will rot in their sockets, and their tongues will rot in their mouths.
• Zechariah 14:15 And a similar plague will strike the horses and mules, camels and donkeys, and all the animals in those camps.
• 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.