Lexical Definition

‎חַג‎ chag (khag) feast ^H:N-M
or חָג châg (khawg); from ‎חָגַג‎

(solemn) feast (day), sacrifice, solemnity.

• a festival, or a victim therefor

1) festival, feast, festival-gathering, pilgrim-feast
1a) feast
1b) festival sacrifice

See Greek: ἑορτή

Brown-Driver-Briggs

‎חַג‎ noun masculine^{Isa 29:1} festival-gathering, feast, pilgrim-feast (Late Hebrew id.; Aramaic , ‎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 Exod 10:9 + 36 t.; ‎חָ֑ג‎ Num 28:17 + 13 t.; suffix ‎חַגִּי‎ Exod 23:18 ‎חַגֶּ֑ךָ‎ Deut 16:14 ‎חַגָּהּ‎ Hos 2:13* ‎חַגֵּנוּ‎ Ps 81:4* plural ‎חַגִּים‎ Isa 29:1 + 2 t.; suffix ‎חַגַּיִךְ‎ Nah 2:1* ‎חַגֵּיכֶם‎ Amos 5:21 + 2 t.; —

1. feast, especially one observed by a pilgrimage (Exod 23:14; Exod 23:17):
a. special feast to the golden calf Exod 32:5 (J; where there was a sacred dance vExod 32:19); a feast in the 8th month observed by Jeroboam in place of the feast of the 7th month in Judah 1Kgs 12:32; 1Kgs 12:33 pilgrim feast proposed by Moses Exod 10:9 (JE); feast at Shiloh Judg 21:19. Elsewhere
b. apparently always of the three great pilgrim feasts, celebrated by processions and dancing: (1) in general Isa 30:29; Amos 8:10; Nah 2:1* ‎חגים ינקפו‎ let feasts come round Isa 29:1 || ‎עצרות‎ Amos 5:21 ‎׳‎‎חַג לי‎ Lev 23:41 (H); distinguished from the more general ‎מועדים‎ (sacred seasons) Ezek 45:17; Ezek 46:11; Hos 9:5 (‎יום חג‎), and from specific ‎חדשׁים‎, ‎שׁבתות‎ as well, Hos 2:13* (2) in particular: unleavened cakes and Passover ‎חג (ה)מצות‎ Exod 23:15 = Exod 34:18 (JE); Lev 23:6 (P), Deut 16:16; 2Chr 8:13; 2Chr 30:13; 2Chr 30:21; 2Chr 35:17; Ezra 6:22 ‎חג‎ Exod 12:14 (P); first day of the seven Num 28:17 (P); the last day Exod 13:6 (J); the seven Ezek 45:21; Ezek 45:23 ‎חג הפסח‎ Exod 34:25, ‎חגי‎ Exod 23:18 (both J E); ‎בַּכֶּסֶה לְיּוֺם חַגֵּנוּ‎ Ps 81:4* (probably the full moon of Passover); ‎חג הקציר‎ Exod 23:16 = ‎חג שׁבעת‎ Exod 34:22 (JE), compare Deut 16:10; Deut 16:16; 2Chr 8:13 ‎חג האס(י)ף‎ Exod 23:16 = Exod 34:22 (JE) = ‎חג הסכ(ו)ת‎ Lev 23:34 (P), Deut 16:13; Deut 16:16; Deut 31:10; 2Chr 8:13; Ezra 3:4; Zech 14:16; Zech 14:18; Zech 14:19 also ‎׳‎‎חג י‎ Lev 23:39 (H), ‎הֶחָג‎ 1Kgs 8:2; 1Kgs 8:65 = 2Chr 5:3; 2Chr 7:8; 2Chr 7:9; Ezra 4:5; Neh 8:14 ‎הַגֶּךָ֑‎ (i.e. of people) Deut 16:14 7 days Num 29:12 (P), Neh 8:18. — Verbs with ‎חג‎ are: ‎חגג‎ Lev 23:39; Lev 23:41 (H), Exod 12:14; Num 29:12 (P), Nah 2:1*; Zech 14:16; Zech 14:18; Zech 14:19 ‎שׁמר‎ Exod 23:15 = Exod 34:18 (JE); ‎התקדשׁ‎ Isa 30:29 but usually ‎עשׂה‎ Exod 34:22 (JE), Deut 16:10; Deut 16:13; 1Kgs 8:65; 1Kgs 12:32; 1Kgs 12:33; 2Chr 7:8; 2Chr 7:9; 2Chr 30:13; 2Chr 30:21; 2Chr 35:17; Ezra 3:4; Ezra 6:22; Neh 8:18.

2. festival sacrifice (compare Late Hebrew ‎חֲגִיגָה‎) Ps 118:27 (see ‎מזבח‎ 12); Mal 2:3 (RV after Thes Ke and others: but AV Ew Or feast).

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