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. Job 1:11 וְגַ֖ע ve.Ga' · A command to you: simple action

    But put forth thy hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will renounce thee to thy face.

  2. Job 1:19 וַיִּגַּע֙ vai.yi.Ga' · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    and, behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and smote the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young men, and they are dead; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.

  3. Job 2:5 וְגַ֥ע ve.Ga' · A command to you: simple action

    But put forth thy hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will renounce thee to thy face.

  4. Job 4:5 תִּגַּ֥ע ti.Ga' · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    But now it is come unto thee, and thou faintest; It toucheth thee, and thou art troubled.

  5. Job 5:19 יִגַּ֖ע yi.Ga' · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    He will deliver thee in six troubles; Yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee.

  6. Job 6:7 לִנְגּ֣וֹעַ lin.Go.a' · The “to do” form of an action: simple action

    My soul refuseth to touch them; They are as loathsome food to me.

  7. Job 19:21 נָ֣גְעָה Na.ge.'ah · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; For the hand of God hath touched me.

  8. Job 20:6 יַגִּֽיעַ׃ ya.Gi.a' · An action: causing it, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    Though his height mount up to the heavens, And his head reach unto the clouds;

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