נָגַע

na.ga · to touch

Hebrew · Strong's H5060 · Verb · Sounds like: naw-gah' · 150 occurrences

Word meanings

Strong's dictionary

a primitive root; properly, to touch, i.e. lay the hand upon (for any purpose; euphemistically, to lie with a woman); by implication, to reach (figuratively, to arrive, acquire); violently, to strike (punish, defeat, destroy, etc.); beat, ([idiom] be able to) bring (down), cast, come (nigh), draw near (nigh), get up, happen, join, near, plague, reach (up), smite, strike, touch.

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (public domain)

Full lexicon entry (Brown-Driver-Briggs)
נָגַע 150 vb. touch, reach, strike
Qal
1.
a. touch
b. of י׳ touching earth, mountains, etc.
2. nearly = strike, pass. stricken
3. touch = harm
4. reach, extend to
Niph. be stricken, defeated (in battle), i.e. feign to be so
Pi. strike (with leprosy, 2 acc.)
Pu. be stricken by diseases
Hiph. cause to touch; reach, approach, arrive

Every occurrence

  1. Ecclesiastes 8:14 מַגִּ֤יעַ ma.Gi.a' · An -ing word: causing it

    There is a vanity which is done upon the earth, that there are righteous men unto whom it happeneth according to the work of the wicked; again, there are wicked men to whom it happeneth according to the work of the righteous: I said that this also is vanity.

  2. Ecclesiastes 8:14 שֶׁמַּגִּ֥יעַ she.ma.Gi.a' · An -ing word: causing it

    There is a vanity which is done upon the earth, that there are righteous men unto whom it happeneth according to the work of the wicked; again, there are wicked men to whom it happeneth according to the work of the righteous: I said that this also is vanity.

  3. Ecclesiastes 12:1 וְהִגִּ֣יעוּ ve.hi.Gi.'u · An action: causing it, and then it will happen, done by them

    Remember also thy Creator in the days of thy youth, before the evil days come, and the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them;

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