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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

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

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

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:9 - And Joseph remembered the dreams which he [fn]had about them and said to them, “You are spies H7270; you have come to look at the [fn]nakedness of the land.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:11 - “We are all sons of one man; we are honest men; your servants are not spies H7270.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:14 - And Joseph said to them, “It is as I said [fn]to you, you are spies H7270;
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:16 - “Send one of you that he may get your brother, while you remain confined, that your words may be tested, whether there is truth in you. But if not, by the life of Pharaoh, surely you are spies H7270.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:30 - “The man, the lord of the land, spoke harshly with us and took us for spies H7270 of the country.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:31 - “So we said to him, ‘We are honest men; we are not spies H7270.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:34 - ‘But bring your youngest brother to me that I may know that you are not spies H7270, but [fn]honest men. I will give your brother to you, and you may trade in the land.’”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:32 - And Moses sent to spy H7270 out H7270 Jazer, and they captured its towns and dispossessed the Amorites who were there.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:24 - “Then they turned and went up into the hill country and came to the valley of Eshcol and spied H7270 it out H7270.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:1 -

Then Joshua the son of Nun sent two men as spies H7270 secretly from Shittim, saying, “Go, see the land, especially Jericho.” So they went and came into the house of a harlot whose name was Rahab and [fn]lodged there.

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:22 -

Now to the two men who had spied H7270 out H7270 the land, Joshua said, “Go into the harlot’s house and bring the woman and all she has out of there, as you have sworn to her.”

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:23 - So the young men who were spies H7270 went in and brought out H7270 Rahab and her father and her mother and her brothers and all she had; they also brought out all her relatives and placed them outside the camp of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:25 - However, Rahab the harlot and her father’s household and all she had, Joshua preserved alive; and she has lived in the midst of Israel to this day, for she hid the messengers whom Joshua sent to spy H7270 out H7270 Jericho.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:2 -

Now Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is near Beth-aven, east of Bethel, and said to them, “[fn]Go up and spy H7270 out H7270 the land.” So the men went up and spied H7270 out H7270 Ai.

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 14:7 - “I was forty years old when Moses the servant of Yahweh sent me from Kadesh-barnea to spy H7270 out H7270 the land, and I brought word back to him as it was in my heart.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:2 - So the sons of Dan sent from their family five men out of their whole number, [fn]men of valor from Zorah and Eshtaol, to spy H7270 out H7270 the land and to search it; and they said to them, “Go, search the land.” And they came to the hill country of Ephraim, to the house of Micah, and lodged there.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:14 -

And the five men who went to spy H7270 out H7270 the country of Laish answered and said to their relatives, “Do you know that there are in these houses an ephod and [fn]household idols and a graven image and a molten image? So now, know what you should do.”

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:17 - Then the five men who went to spy H7270 out H7270 the land went up and entered there, and took the graven image and the ephod and household idols and the molten image. And the priest was standing by the entrance of the gate with the 600 men armed with weapons of war.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:4 - So David sent out spies H7270 and knew that Saul was certainly coming.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 10:3 - But the princes of the sons of Ammon said to Hanun their lord, “In your eyes, is David honoring your father because he has sent comforters to you? Has David not sent his servants to you in order to search the city, to spy H7270 it out H7270 and overthrow it?”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:10 - Then Absalom sent spies H7270 throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, “As soon as you hear the sound of the trumpet, then you shall say, ‘Absalom is king in Hebron.’”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:27 - “Moreover, he has slandered H7270 your servant to my lord the king; but my lord the king is like the angel of God, therefore do what is good in your sight.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 19:3 - But the princes of the sons of Ammon said to Hanun, “In your eyes, is David honoring your father because he has sent comforters to you? Have not his servants come to you to search and to overthrow and to spy H7270 out H7270 the land?”
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 15:3 -

He does not slander H7270 [fn]with his tongue,

Nor does evil to his neighbor,

Nor takes up a reproach against his friend;

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