Sab. חן DHM Epigr. Denkm. 31 ; Nö ZMG 1887, 719 ; RS Proph. Lect. ii. n. 6 ; > We Skizzen iii. 106, 165
sacred dance
)
—
חַג
abs.
and
cstr.
Ex 10:9
+
36 times;
חָ˜ג
Nu 28:17
+
13 times;
sf.
חַגִּי
Ex 23:1
8;
חַגֶּךָ˜
Dt 16:1
4;
חַגָּהּ
Ho 2:1
3;
חַגֵּנוּ
ψ 81:4
;
pl.
חַגִּים
Is 29:1
+
2 times;
sf.
חַגַּיִךְ
Na 2:
1;
חַגֵּיכֶם
Am 5:21
+
2 times;—
1.
feast
, especially one observed by a
pilgrimage
(
Ex 23:14
,
17
):
a.
special feast
to the golden calf
Ex 32:5
(
J
; where there was a sacred dance
v
1
9); a feast in the 8th month observed by Jeroboam in place of the feast of the 7th month in Judah
1 K 12:32
,
33
; pilgrim feast proposed by Moses
Ex 10:9
(JE); feast at Shiloh
Ju 21:19
. Elsewhere
b.
apparently always of the three great pilgrim feasts, celebrated by processions and dancing: (1)
in general
Is 30:29 Am 8:10 Na 2:
1;
חגים ינקפו
let feasts come round
Is 29:
1;
||
עצרות
Am 5:2
1;
חַג לי׳
Lv 23:41
(
H
); disting. from the more gen.
מועדים
(sacred seasons)
Ez 45:17
;
46:11 Ho 9:5
(
יום חג
), and from specif.
חדשׁים
,
שׁבתות
as well,
Ho 2:13
; (2) in particular: unleavened cakes and Passover
חג (ה)מצות
Ex 23:15
=
34:18
(JE);
Lv 23:6
(
P
),
Dt 16:16 2 Ch 8:1
3;
30:13
,
21
;
35:17 Ezr 6:2
2;
חג
Ex 12:14
(
P
); first day of the seven
Nu 28:17
(
P
); the last day
Ex 13:6
(
J
); the seven
Ez 45:21
,
23
;
חג חפסח
Ex 34:25
,
חגי
Ex 23:18
(both JE);
בַּכֶּסֶה לְיֹּום חַגֵּנוּ
ψ 81:4
(probably the full moon of Passover);
חג הקציר
Ex 23:16
=
חג שׁבעת
Ex 34:22
(JE),
cf.
Dt 16:10
,
16 2 Ch 8:1
3;
חג האס(י)פ
Ex 23:16
=
34:22
(JE)
=
חג הסב(ו)ת
Lv 23:34
(
P
),
Dt 16:13
,
16
;
31:10 2 Ch 8:13 Ezr 3:4 Zc 14:1
6,
18
,
19
; also
חג י׳
Lv 23:39
(
H
),
הֶחָג
1 K 8:
2,
65
=
2 Ch 5:
3;
7:8
,
9
,
Ez 45 Ne 8:1
4;
חַגֶּךָ˜
(i.e. of people)
Dt 16:14
;
7
days
Nu 29:12
(
P
),
Ne 8:18
.—Vbs.
c.
חג
are:
חגג
Lv 23:39
,
41
(
H
),
Ex 12:14 Nu 29:12
(
P
),
Na 2:1 Zc 14:1
6,
18
,
19
;
שׁמר
Ex 23:15
=
34:18
(JE);
התקדשׁ
Is 30:2
9; but usually
עשׂה
Ex 34:22
(JE),
Dt 16:10
,
13 1 K 8:65
;
12:32
,
33 2 Ch 7:
8,
9
;
30:13
,
21
;
35:17 Ezr 3:
4;
6:22 Ne 8:1
8.
2.
festival sacrifice
(
cf.
NH
חֲגִיגָה
)
ψ 118:27
(see
מזבח
12
);
Mal 2:3
(
RV
after
Thes Ke
al.
: but
AV Ew Or
feast
).
• חָגָּא S 2283 TWOT 602b GK 2505 n. [ f. ] reeling ( Aramaism for חגה Ew § 173 b , by copyist’s error Di ) — למצרים … לח׳ וְהָֽיְתָה Is 19:17 and the land of Judah shall become to Egypt a reeling , i.e. Egypt shall reel in terror at the sight of it ( ||
Nö T. Nöldeke . ZMG Zeitschrift d. deutsch. Morgenländ. Gesellschaft. RS W. Robertson Smith, Prophets of Israel.
Ke C. F. Keil. Or C. von Orelli.