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. Joshua 8:15 וַיִּנָּֽגְע֛וּ vai.yi.na.ge.'U · An action: receiving the action, and then it happened, done by them

    And Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before them, and fled by the way of the wilderness.

  2. Joshua 9:19 לִנְגֹּ֥עַ lin.Go.a' · The “to do” form of an action: simple action

    But all the princes said unto all the congregation, We have sworn unto them by Jehovah, the God of Israel: now therefore we may not touch them.

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