Bible word study

Chagag (Strong’s H2287): Meaning in the Bible

Chagag (חָגַג) is the Hebrew word numbered H2287 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as properly, to move in a circle, i.e. (specifically) to march in a sacred procession, to observe a festival; by implication, to be giddy. In the King James Bible it is translated celebrate, dance, (keep, hold) a (solemn) feast (holiday), reel to and fro..

• Original wordחָגַג
• Transliterationchâgag
• Pronunciationkhaw-gag'
• Part of speechverb (v)
• Strong’s numberH2287
• LanguageHebrew

The full Strong’s definition

Derivation. a primitive root (compare H2283, H2328);

How the King James Bible translates it

Where Chagag appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Chagag (H2287) stands behind 16 English renderings in 14 verses across 8 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in Exodus (4), Leviticus (3), Zechariah (3).

How the King James Bible renders Chagag, by count

• keep8 of 16 (50 percent)
• feast4 of 16 (25 percent)
• celebrate1 of 16 (6 percent)
• dancing1 of 16 (6 percent)
• fro1 of 16 (6 percent)
• holyday1 of 16 (6 percent)

Three places to read Chagag

• Exodus 5:1 And afterward Moses and Aaron went in, and told Pharaoh, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Let my people go, that they may hold a feast unto me in the wilderness.
• Leviticus 23:41 And ye shall keep it a feast unto the LORD seven days in the year. It shall be a statute for ever in your generations: ye shall celebrate it in the seventh month.
• Psalms 107:27 They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wit’s end.

Counts are made at build time from the King James text tagged with Strong’s numbers (eBible.org, public domain). Verses are read from the stored King James text, never typed.

Why the word matters

Every word the biblical writers chose carries weight. Studying Chagag in the original Hebrew lets you read the passages where it appears more carefully, closer to what the first hearers understood, so the meaning is drawn from the text itself rather than from the English alone.

The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.

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