Chag — H2282

Definition

masculine noun

a festival, or a victim therefor

1. festival, feast, festival-gathering, pilgrim-feast
1. feast
2. festival sacrifice

Usually translated as

feast, sacrifice, solemnity

Origin

or châg; from H2287

• Derived from Châgag (H2287)

Greek equivalents

• heortḗ (G1859)

Occurrences

Chag occurs 62 times in 55 verses of the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Exodus (10), Leviticus (4), Numbers (2), Deuteronomy (5), Judges (1), 1 Kings (4), 2 Chronicles (7), Ezra (2), Nehemiah (2), Psalms (2), Isaiah (2), Ezekiel (5), Hosea (2), Amos (2), Nahum (1), Zechariah (3), Malachi (1)

• Exodus 10:9 — And Moses said, We will go with our young and with our old, with our sons and with our daughters, with our flocks and with our herds will we go; for we must hold a feast (חַג) unto the LORD.
• Exodus 12:14 — And this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall keep it a feast (חַ֣ג) to the LORD throughout your generations; ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever.
• Exodus 13:6 — Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, and in the seventh day shall be a feast (חַ֖ג) to the LORD.
• Exodus 23:15 — Thou shalt keep the feast (חַ֣ג) of unleavened bread: (thou shalt eat unleavened bread seven days, as I commanded thee, in the time appointed of the month Abib; for in it thou camest out from Egypt: and none shall appear before me empty:)
• Exodus 23:16 — And the feast (וְחַ֤ג) of harvest, the firstfruits of thy labours, which thou hast sown in the field: and the feast of ingathering, which is in the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in thy labours out of the field.
• Exodus 23:16 — And the feast of harvest, the firstfruits of thy labours, which thou hast sown in the field: and the feast (וְחַ֤ג) of ingathering, which is in the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in thy labours out of the field.
• Exodus 23:18 — Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread; neither shall the fat of my sacrifice (חַגִּ֖י) remain until the morning.
• Exodus 32:5 — And when Aaron saw it, he built an altar before it; and Aaron made proclamation, and said, To morrow is a feast (חַ֥ג) to the LORD.
• Exodus 34:18 — The feast (חַ֣ג) of unleavened bread shalt thou keep. Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, as I commanded thee, in the time of the month Abib: for in the month Abib thou camest out from Egypt.
• Exodus 34:22 — And thou shalt observe the feast (וְחַ֤ג) of weeks, of the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the year’s end.
• Exodus 34:22 — And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, of the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the feast (וְחַג֙) of ingathering at the year’s end.
• Exodus 34:25 — Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leaven; neither shall the sacrifice of the feast (חַ֥ג) of the passover be left unto the morning.
• Leviticus 23:6 — And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast (חַ֥ג) of unleavened bread unto the LORD: seven days ye must eat unleavened bread.
• Leviticus 23:34 — Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, The fifteenth day of this seventh month shall be the feast (חַ֧ג) of tabernacles for seven days unto the LORD.
• Leviticus 23:39 — Also in the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when ye have gathered in the fruit of the land, ye shall keep a feast (חַג) unto the LORD seven days: on the first day shall be a sabbath, and on the eighth day shall be a sabbath.
• Leviticus 23:41 — And ye shall keep it a feast (חַ֣ג) 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.
• Numbers 28:17 — And in the fifteenth day of this month is the feast (חָ֑ג): seven days shall unleavened bread be eaten.
• Numbers 29:12 — And on the fifteenth day of the seventh month ye shall have an holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work, and ye shall keep a feast (חַ֛ג) unto the LORD seven days:
• Deuteronomy 16:10 — And thou shalt keep the feast (חַ֤ג) of weeks unto the LORD thy God with a tribute of a freewill offering of thine hand, which thou shalt give unto the Lord thy God, according as the LORD thy God hath blessed thee:
• Deuteronomy 16:13 — Thou shalt observe the feast (חַ֧ג) of tabernacles seven days, after that thou hast gathered in thy corn and thy wine:
• Deuteronomy 16:14 — And thou shalt rejoice in thy feast (בְּחַגֶּ֑ךָ), thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite, the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are within thy gates.
• Deuteronomy 16:16 — Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose; in the feast (בְּחַ֧ג) of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles: and they shall not appear before the LORD empty:
• Deuteronomy 16:16 — Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose; in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast (וּבְחַ֥ג) of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles: and they shall not appear before the LORD empty:
• Deuteronomy 16:16 — Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose; in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast (וּבְחַ֣ג) of tabernacles: and they shall not appear before the LORD empty:
• Deuteronomy 31:10 — And Moses commanded them, saying, At the end of every seven years, in the solemnity of the year of release, in the feast (בְּחַ֥ג) of tabernacles,
• Judges 21:19 — Then they said, Behold, there is a feast (חַג) of the LORD in Shiloh yearly in a place which is on the north side of Beth-el, on the east side of the highway that goeth up from Beth-el to Shechem, and on the south of Lebonah.
• 1 Kings 8:2 — And all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto king Solomon at the feast (בֶּחָ֑ג) in the month Ethanim, which is the seventh month.
• 1 Kings 8:65 — And at that time Solomon held a feast (הֶחָ֡ג), and all Israel with him, a great congregation, from the entering in of Hamath unto the river of Egypt, before the LORD our God, seven days and seven days, even fourteen days.
• 1 Kings 12:32 — And Jeroboam ordained a feast (חָ֡ג) in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like unto the feast that is in Judah, and he offered upon the altar. So did he in Beth-el, sacrificing unto the calves that he had made: and he placed in Beth-el the priests of the high places which he had made.
• 1 Kings 12:32 — And Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like unto the feast (כֶּחָ֣ג) that is in Judah, and he offered upon the altar. So did he in Beth-el, sacrificing unto the calves that he had made: and he placed in Beth-el the priests of the high places which he had made.
• 1 Kings 12:33 — So he offered upon the altar which he had made in Beth-el the fifteenth day of the eighth month, even in the month which he had devised of his own heart; and ordained a feast (חָג֙) unto the children of Israel: and he offered upon the altar, and burnt incense.
• 2 Chronicles 5:3 — Wherefore all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto the king in the feast (בֶּחָ֑ג) which was in the seventh month.
• 2 Chronicles 7:8 — Also at the same time Solomon kept the feast (הֶ֠חָג) seven days, and all Israel with him, a very great congregation, from the entering in of Hamath unto the river of Egypt.
• 2 Chronicles 7:9 — And in the eighth day they made a solemn assembly: for they kept the dedication of the altar seven days, and the feast (וְהֶחָ֖ג) seven days.
• 2 Chronicles 8:13 — Even after a certain rate every day, offering according to the commandment of Moses, on the sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the solemn feasts, three times in the year, even in the feast (בְּחַ֧ג) of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles.
• 2 Chronicles 8:13 — Even after a certain rate every day, offering according to the commandment of Moses, on the sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the solemn feasts, three times in the year, even in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast (וּבְחַ֥ג) of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles.
• 2 Chronicles 8:13 — Even after a certain rate every day, offering according to the commandment of Moses, on the sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the solemn feasts, three times in the year, even in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast (וּבְחַ֥ג) of tabernacles.
• 2 Chronicles 30:13 — And there assembled at Jerusalem much people to keep the feast (חַ֥ג) of unleavened bread in the second month, a very great congregation.
• 2 Chronicles 30:21 — And the children of Israel that were present at Jerusalem kept the feast (חַ֧ג) of unleavened bread seven days with great gladness: and the Levites and the priests praised the LORD day by day, singing with loud instruments unto the LORD.
• 2 Chronicles 35:17 — And the children of Israel that were present kept the passover at that time, and the feast (חַ֥ג) of unleavened bread seven days.
• Ezra 3:4 — They kept also the feast (חַ֥ג) of tabernacles, as it is written, and offered the daily burnt offerings by number, according to the custom, as the duty of every day required;
• Ezra 6:22 — And kept the feast (חַג) of unleavened bread seven days with joy: for the LORD had made them joyful, and turned the heart of the king of Assyria unto them, to strengthen their hands in the work of the house of God, the God of Israel.
• Nehemiah 8:14 — And they found written in the law which the LORD had commanded by Moses, that the children of Israel should dwell in booths in the feast (בֶּחָ֖ג) of the seventh month:
• Nehemiah 8:18 — Also day by day, from the first day unto the last day, he read in the book of the law of God. And they kept the feast (חָג֙) seven days; and on the eighth day was a solemn assembly, according unto the manner.
• Psalms 81:3 — Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast (חַגֵּֽנוּ) day.
• Psalms 118:27 — God is the LORD, which hath shewed us light: bind the sacrifice (חַ֥ג) with cords, even unto the horns of the altar.
• Isaiah 29:1 — Woe to Ariel, to Ariel, the city where David dwelt! add ye year to year; let them kill sacrifices (חַגִּ֥ים).
• Isaiah 30:29 — Ye shall have a song, as in the night when a holy solemnity is kept (חָ֑ג); and gladness of heart, as when one goeth with a pipe to come into the mountain of the LORD, to the mighty One of Israel.
• Ezekiel 45:17 — And it shall be the prince’s part to give burnt offerings, and meat offerings, and drink offerings, in the feasts (בַּחַגִּ֤ים), and in the new moons, and in the sabbaths, in all solemnities of the house of Israel: he shall prepare the sin offering, and the meat offering, and the burnt offering, and the peace offerings, to make reconciliation for the house of Israel.
• Ezekiel 45:21 — In the first month, in the fourteenth day of the month, ye shall have the passover, a feast (חָ֕ג) of seven days; unleavened bread shall be eaten.