Hebrew word · H2286

חֲגָבָה

chagavah

Hagabah

A personal name matching ḥagav, 'locust/grasshopper' (Leviticus 11:22; Numbers 13:33). A related name, Hagab, comes in the next verse.

Appears 2 times in 2 verses of the Hebrew Old Testament. ·

What it means

Hagaba or Hagabah = "locust"

head of a family of exiles who returned with Zerubbabel

Abridged from Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), via STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0).

In depth

From the study of Ezra 2:45

Range of meaning

A personal name matching ḥagav, 'locust/grasshopper' (Leviticus 11:22; Numbers 13:33). A related name, Hagab, comes in the next verse.

Against the English

English versions transliterate it.

Used elsewhere in the period

Ezra 2:45; Neh 7:48 (Hagaba). Animal names for people are common in the Hebrew Bible (Deborah 'bee', Jonah 'dove', Huldah 'mole').

Similar words

Where it appears

Ezra · 1

  1. Ezra 2:45 חֲגָבָ֖ה Hagabah

    the descendants of Lebanah, the descendants of Hagabah, the descendants of Akkub,

    Here: Another family head. The name matches the Hebrew word for 'locust' or 'grasshopper' (ḥagav), a kind of nickname found elsewhere in this list.

Nehemiah · 1

  1. Nehemiah 7:48 חֲגָבָ֖ה Hagabah

    the descendants of Lebanah, the descendants of Hagabah, the descendants of Shalmai,

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