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Strong's #2282 - חָג
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- festival, feast, festival-gathering, pilgrim-feast
- feast
- festival sacrifice
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1164) ch (ההג HhG) AC: Feast CO: Circle AB: Terror: The pictograph h is a picture of a wall representing outside. The c is a picture of a foot and represents a gathering. Combined these mean "outside gathering". The gathering together for a festival, usually in the form of a circle for dancing and feasting. (eng: hug - as an encircling; circ - an exchange of the h and c and the g and c; cog - an exchange of the h and c)
A) ch (ההג HhG) AC: ? CO: Feast AB: ?: The participants of a festival would gather together and dance in a circle.
Nm) ch (ההג HhG) - Feast: KJV (62): feast, sacrifice - Strongs: H2282 (חָג)
B) cch (ההגג HhGG) AC: ? CO: Feast AB: ?: The participants of a festival would gather together and dance in a circle.
V) cch (ההגג HhGG) - Feast: KJV (16): (vf: Paal) keep, feast, celebrate, dance, holyday, reel to and fro - Strongs: H2287 (חָגַג)
E) ach (ההגא HhGA) AC: ? CO: ? AB: Terror: A spinning around in fear.
Nf) ach (ההגא HhGA) - Terror: KJV (1): terror - Strongs: H2283 (חָגָּא)
J) cfh (ההוג HhWG) AC: ? CO: Circle AB: ?
V) cfh (ההוג HhWG) - Circle: KJV (1): (vf: Paal) compassed - Strongs: H2328 (חוּג)
Nm) cfh (ההוג HhWG) - Circle: KJV (3): circle, circuit, compass - Strongs: H2329 (חוּג)
kf1) ecfhm (מההוגה MHhWGH) - Compass: An instrument for making a circle. KJV (1): compass - Strongs: H4230 (מְחוּגָה)
K) fch (ההגו HhGW) AC: ? CO: Refuge AB: ?: A place where one is encircled by a wall.
Nm) fch (ההגו HhGW) - Cleft: A refuge in the rock. KJV (3): cleft - Strongs: H2288 (חָגוּ)
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Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
, חַגָּא; Arabic 
pilgrimage; Sabean חג DHM Epigr. Denkm. 31; Nö ZMG 1887. 719; RS Proph. Lect. ii. n. 6; > We Skizzen iii. 106,165 sacred dance) — חַג absolute and construct Exodus 10:9 36t.; חָ֑ג Numbers 28:17 13t.; suffix חַגִּי Exodus 23:18; חַגֶּ֑ךָ Deuteronomy 16:14; חַגָּהּ Hosea 2:13; חַגֵּנוּ Psalm 81:4; plural חַגִּים Isaiah 29:1 2t.; suffix חַגַּיִךְ Nahum 2:1; חַגֵּיכֶם Amos 5:21 2t.; — 1 feast, especially one observed by a pilgrimage ( Exodus 23:14,17):
a. special feast to the golden calf Exodus 32:5 (J; where there was a sacred dance Exodus 32:19); a feast in the 8th month observed by Jeroboam in place of the feast of the 7th month in Judah 1 Kings 12:32,33; pilgrim feast proposed by Moses Exodus 10:9 (JE); feast at Shiloh Judges 21:19. Elsewhere
b. apparently always of the three great pilgrim feasts, celebrated by processions and dancing: (1) in General Isaiah 30:29; Amos 8:10; Nahum 2:1; חגים ינקפו let feasts come round Isaiah 29:1; "" עצרות Amos 5:21; ׳חַג לי Leviticus 23:41 (H); distinguished from the more General מועדים (sacred seasons) Ezekiel 45:17; Ezekiel 46:11; Hosea 9:5 (יום חג), and from specific חדשׁים, שׁבתות as well, Hosea 2:13; (2) in particular: unleavened cakes and Passover חג (ה)מצות Exodus 23:15 = Exodus 34:18 (JE); Leviticus 23:6 (P), Deuteronomy 16:16; 2 Chronicles 8:13; 30:13,21; 35:17; Ezra 6:22; חג Exodus 12:14 (P); first day of the seven Numbers 28:17 (P); the last day Exodus 13:6 (J); the seven Ezekiel 45:21,23; חג הפסח Exodus 34:25, חגי Exodus 23:18 (both J E); בַּכֶּסֶה לְיּוֺם חַגֵּנוּ Psalm 81:4 (probably the full moon of Passover); חג הקציר Exodus 23:16 = חג שׁבעת Exodus 34:22 (JE), compare Deuteronomy 16:10,16; 2 Chronicles 8:13; חג האס(י)ף Exodus 23:16 = Exodus 34:22 (JE) = חג הסכ(ו)ת Leviticus 23:34 (P), Deuteronomy 16:13,16; Deuteronomy 31:10; 2 Chronicles 8:13; Ezra 3:4; Zechariah 14:16,18,19; also ׳חג י Leviticus 23:39 (H), הֶחָג 1 Kings 8:2,65 2 Chronicles 5:3; 7:8,9; Ezra 4:5; Nehemiah 8:14; הַגֶּךָ֑ (i.e. of people) Deuteronomy 16:14; 7days Numbers 29:12 (P), Nehemiah 8:18. — Verbs with חג are: חגג Leviticus 23:39,41 (H), Exodus 12:14; Numbers 29:12 (P), Nahum 2:1; Zechariah 14:16,18,19; שׁמר Exodus 23:15 = Exodus 34:18 (JE); התקדשׁ Isaiah 30:29; but usually עשׂה Exodus 34:22 (JE), Deuteronomy 16:10,13; 1 Kings 8:65; 1 Kings 12:32,33; 2 Chronicles 7:8,9; 30:13,21; 35:17; Ezra 3:4; Ezra 6:22; Nehemiah 8:18.
2 festival sacrifice (compare Late Hebrew חֲגִיגָה) Psalm 118:27 (see מזבח 12); Malachi 2:3 (RV after Thes Ke and others: but AV Ew Or feast).
חָג constr. and followed by לְ (Exodus 12:14; Numbers 29:12) חַג, with suff. חַגִּי m.
(1) a festival (from the root חָגַג), Exodus 10:9, 12:14. עָשָׂה חָג, חַג חָג to keep a festival Levit. 23:39 Deuteronomy 16:10. In the Talmud κατʼ ἐξοχὴν, it is used of the feast of tabernacles, and so 2 Chronicles 5:3 comp. 1 Kings 8:2. [“So of the passover, Isaiah 30:29. Comp. Arabic حِجُ pilgrimage to Mecca.”]
(2) meton. a festival sacrifice, a victim, Psalms 118:27, אִסְרוּ־חַג בַּעֲבֹתִים “bind the sacrifice with cords.” Exodus 23:18, חֶלֶב חַגִּי “the fat of my sacrifice;” Malachi 2:3. Compare מוֹעֵד 2 Chronicles 30:22.
