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Lexicon :: Strong's H7270 - rāḡal

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רָגַל
Transliteration
rāḡal
Pronunciation
raw-gal'
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive root
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TWOT Reference: 2113

Strong’s Definitions

רָגַל râgal, raw-gal'; a primitive root; also as denominative from H7272 to walk along; but only in specifically, applications, to reconnoiter, to be a tale-bearer (i.e. slander); to lead about:—backbite, search, slander, (e-) spy (out), teach to go, view.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 25x

The KJV translates Strong's H7270 in the following manner: spy (12x), spy out (8x), view (2x), backbiteth (1x), espy out (1x), slandered (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 25x
The KJV translates Strong's H7270 in the following manner: spy (12x), spy out (8x), view (2x), backbiteth (1x), espy out (1x), slandered (1x).

  1. to go on foot, spy out, foot it, go about, walk along, move the feet

    1. (Qal) to be a tale-bearer, slander, go about

    2. (Piel)

      1. to slander

      2. to go about as explorer, spy

    3. (Tiphel) to teach to walk

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
רָגַל râgal, raw-gal'; a primitive root; also as denominative from H7272 to walk along; but only in specifically, applications, to reconnoiter, to be a tale-bearer (i.e. slander); to lead about:—backbite, search, slander, (e-) spy (out), teach to go, view.
STRONGS H7270: Abbreviations
† רָגַל verb denominative foot it, go about; —
Qal go about (maliciously, as slanderer; compare Arabic bdb092001 and bdb092002 slanderer, from √√ bdb092003 walk along, bdb092004 walk quickly), slander, Perfect 3rd person masculine singular עַללֿשֹׁנוֺ לאֹרֿ׳ Psalm 15:3, he talks no slander upon his tongue (|| דֹּבֵר אֱמֶת Psalm 15:2).
Pi. Imperfect 3rd person masculine singularוַיְרַגֵּל 2 Samuel 19:28, 3rd person masculine plural וַיְרַגְּלוּ Deuteronomy 1:24; Joshua 7:2; Imperative masculine plural רַגְּלוּ Joshua 7:2; Infinitive construct לְרֵגֵּל Numbers 21:32 + 5 times; suffix לְרַגְּלָהּ 2 Samuel 10:3; Participle plural מְרַגְּלִים Genesis 42:9 + 11 times; —
1. slander (compare Qal), בְּעַבְדְךָ אֶל וַיְר׳ 2 Samuel 19:28.
2. go about as explorer, spy, with accusative of location Numbers 21:32; Joshua 6:25; Joshua 7:2 (twice in verse); Joshua 14:7 (all J E), Judges 18:2 (|| חָקַר), Judges 18:14; Judges 18:17; 2 Samuel 10:3 (|| חָקַר), 1 Chronicles 19:3, so also participle Genesis 42:30 (E), Joshua 6:22 (JE); participle, accusative omitted, as adjective, אֲנָשִׁים מְרַגְּלִים Joshua 2:1, compare Joshua 6:23 (both J E); as substantive, spies 1 Samuel 26:4; 2 Samuel 15:10, and so perhaps (as predicate) Genesis 42:9, 11, 14, 16, 31, 34 (all E).
Tiph. Perfect 1st person singular תִּרְגַּלְתִּי לְאֶפְרַיִם [H8637 Hosea 11:3] I taught Ephraim to walk (si vera lectio; see Ges§ 55h).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

42:9; 42:9; 42:11; 42:14; 42:16; 42:30; 42:31; 42:34

Numbers

21:32; 21:32

Deuteronomy

1:24

Joshua

2:1; 6:22; 6:23; 6:25; 7:2; 7:2; 7:2; 14:7

Judges

18:2; 18:14; 18:17

1 Samuel

26:4

2 Samuel

10:3; 10:3; 15:10; 19:28; 19:28

1 Chronicles

19:3

Psalms

15:2; 15:3

H7270

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Strong's Number H7270 matches the Hebrew רָגַל (rāḡal),
which occurs 25 times in 24 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 42:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:9 - Yosef remembered the dreams which he dreamed about them, and said to them, "You are spies! You have come to see the nakedness of the land."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 42:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:11 - We are all one man's sons; we are honest men. Your servants are not spies."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 42:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:14 - Yosef said to them, "It is like I told you, saying, 'You are spies.'

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:16 - Send one of you, and let him get your brother, and you shall be bound, that your words may be tested, whether there is truth in you, or else by the life of Par`oh surely you are spies."

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:30 - "The man, the lord of the land, spoke roughly with us, and took us for spies of the country.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:31 - We said to him, 'We are honest men. We are no spies.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:34 - Bring your youngest brother to me. Then I will know that you are not spies, but that you are honest men. So I will deliver your brother to you, and you shall trade in the land.'"

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:32 - Moshe sent to spy out Ya`zer; and they took the towns of it, and drove out the Amori who were there.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 1:24

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:24 - and they turned and went up into the hill-country, and came to the valley of Eshkol, and spied it out.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 2:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:1 - Yehoshua the son of Nun sent out of Shittim two men as spies secretly, saying, Go, view the land, and Yericho. They went and came into the house of a prostitute whose name was Rachav, and lay there.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 6:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:22 - Yehoshua said to the two men who had spied out the land, Go into the prostitute's house, and bring out there the woman, and all that she has, as you swore to her.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 6:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:23 - The young men the spies went in, and brought out Rachav, and her father, and her mother, and her brothers, and all that she had; all her relatives also they brought out; and they set them outside of the camp of Yisra'el.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:25 - But Rachav the prostitute, and her father's household, and all that she had, did Yehoshua save alive; and she lived in the midst of Yisra'el to this day, because she hid the messengers, whom Yehoshua sent to spy out Yericho.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:2 - Yehoshua sent men from Yericho to `Ai, which is beside Beit-Aven, on the east side of Beit-El, and spoke to them, saying, Go up and spy out the land. The men went up and spied out `Ai.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 14:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 14:7 - Forty years old was I when Moshe the servant of the LORD sent me from Kadesh-Barnea to spy out the land; and I brought him word again as it was in my heart.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 18:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:2 - The children of Dan sent of their family five men from their whole number, men of valor, from Tzor`ah, and from Eshta'ol, to spy out the land, and to search it; and they said to them, Go, search the land. They came to the hill-country of Efrayim, to the house of Mikhah, and lodged there.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 18:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:14 - Then the five men who went to spy out the country of Layish answered, and said to their brothers, Do you know that there is in these houses an efod, and terafim, and an engraved image, and a molten image? now therefore consider what you have to do.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 18:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:17 - The five men who went to spy out the land went up, and came in there, and took the engraved image, and the efod, and the terafim, and the molten image: and the Kohen stood by the entrance of the gate with the six hundred men girt with weapons of war.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 26:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:4 - David therefore sent out spies, and understood that Sha'ul was come of a certainty.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 10:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 10:3 - But the princes of the children of `Ammon said to Hanun their lord, Do you think that David honors your father, in that he has sent comforters to you? Hasn't David sent his servants to you to search the city, and to spy it out, and to overthrow it?

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 15:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:10 - But Avshalom sent spies throughout all the tribes of Yisra'el, saying, As soon as you hear the sound of the shofar, then you shall say, Avshalom is king in Hevron.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 19:27

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:27 - He has slandered your servant to my lord the king; but my lord the king is as an angel of God: do therefore what is good in your eyes.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 19:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 19:3 - But the princes of the children of `Ammon said to Hanun, Think you that David does honor your father, in that he has sent comforters to you? Aren't his servants come to you to search, and to overthrow, and to spy out the land?

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 15:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 15:3 - He who doesn't slander with his tongue, Nor does evil to his friend, Nor casts slurs against his fellow man;
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