mag.ge.phah denotes a destructive outbreak or blow that brings widespread death, harm, or loss among people or animals.

The term denotes a destructive outbreak or blow affecting a group, commonly marked by death, bodily harm, or widespread loss. The supplied verses portray it as breaking out among a people, falling upon them, being restrained or stayed, and in one vision striking both peoples and their animals.

1. Destructive outbreak or blow upon a group · dominant

   The singular noun names a calamity affecting a people or community: in Numbers 25:9 the APB renders those who died in it as numbering twenty-four thousand, while Numbers 25:8 says it was stopped from the Israelites. In 2 Samuel 24:21 and 2 Samuel 24:25, David's altar is connected with the calamity being stayed from the people; Zechariah 14:12 presents one that strikes hostile peoples with bodily decay, and Zechariah 14:15 extends the same event to animals in their camps.

   Numbers 25:8Numbers 25:92 Samuel 24:212 Samuel 24:25Zechariah 14:12Zechariah 14:15

In the Anselm Project Bible: Across the supplied verses, the APB usually presents the noun as “plague,” including language of one breaking out, coming upon a congregation, or being stopped or stayed. In 2 Samuel 17:9 it instead renders the reported event as “a slaughter”, so that variation does not establish a separate lexical sense by itself.