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נָכָה

na.khah · to smite

Hebrew · Strong's H5221 · Verb · Sounds like: naw-kaw' · 500 occurrences

Word meanings

Strong's dictionary

a primitive root; to strike (lightly or severely, literally or figuratively); beat, cast forth, clap, give (wounds), [idiom] go forward, [idiom] indeed, kill, make (slaughter), murderer, punish, slaughter, slay(-er, -ing), smite(-r, -ing), strike, be stricken, (give) stripes, [idiom] surely, wound.

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (public domain)

Full lexicon entry (Brown-Driver-Briggs)
[נָכָה] 501 vb. smite (not in Qal)
Niph. and he shall be smitten [struck by weapon in battle] and die
Pu. both be smitten down by the hail
Hiph.
1.
a. lit., smite (with a single, non-fatal, blow), strike
b. smite repeatedly, beat a man
c. and they clapped hands (in applause)
d. give a thrust (with fork) into pot; strike roots
e. rarely smite (in battle) so as (merely) to wound
f. smite, of sun
2. Smite fatally
3. Smite = attack, attack and destroy a company
4. Of God
a. smite with a plague, disease, etc.
b. smite = chastise, or send judgment upon
c. of God’s destroying palaces
Hoph. be smitten

Every occurrence

  1. 1 Samuel 2:14 וְהִכָּ֨ה ve.hi.Kah · An action: causing it, and then it will happen, done by him, her or it

    and he struck it into the pan, or kettle, or caldron, or pot; all that the flesh-hook brought up the priest took therewith. So they did in Shiloh unto all the Israelites that came thither.

  2. 1 Samuel 4:2 וַיַּכּ֤וּ vai.ya.Ku · An action: causing it, and then it happened, done by them

    And the Philistines put themselves in array against Israel: and when they joined battle, Israel was smitten before the Philistines; and they slew of the army in the field about four thousand men.

  3. 1 Samuel 4:8 הַמַּכִּ֧ים ha.ma.Kim · An -ing word: causing it

    Woe unto us! who shall deliver us out of the hand of these mighty gods? these are the gods that smote the Egyptians with all manner of plagues in the wilderness.

  4. 1 Samuel 5:6 וַיַּ֤ךְ vai.Yakh · An action: causing it, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    But the hand of Jehovah was heavy upon them of Ashdod, and he destroyed them, and smote them with tumors, even Ashdod and the borders thereof.

  5. 1 Samuel 5:9 וַיַּךְ֙ vai.yaKh · An action: causing it, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And it was so, that, after they had carried it about, the hand of Jehovah was against the city with a very great discomfiture: and he smote the men of the city, both small and great; and tumors brake out upon them.

  6. 1 Samuel 5:12 הֻכּ֖וּ hu.Ku · An action: being caused, finished, with a lasting result, done by them

    And the men that died not were smitten with the tumors; and the cry of the city went up to heaven.

  7. 1 Samuel 6:19 וַיַּ֞ךְ vai.Yakh · An action: causing it, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And he smote of the men of Beth-shemesh, because they had looked into the ark of Jehovah, he smote of the people seventy men, and fifty thousand men; and the people mourned, because Jehovah had smitten the people with a great slaughter.

  8. 1 Samuel 6:19 וַיַּ֤ךְ vai.Yakh · An action: causing it, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And he smote of the men of Beth-shemesh, because they had looked into the ark of Jehovah, he smote of the people seventy men, and fifty thousand men; and the people mourned, because Jehovah had smitten the people with a great slaughter.

  9. 1 Samuel 6:19 הִכָּ֧ה hi.Kah · An action: causing it, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    And he smote of the men of Beth-shemesh, because they had looked into the ark of Jehovah, he smote of the people seventy men, and fifty thousand men; and the people mourned, because Jehovah had smitten the people with a great slaughter.

  10. 1 Samuel 7:11 וַיַּכּ֕וּם vai.ya.Kum · An action: causing it, and then it happened, done by them

    And the men of Israel went out of Mizpah, and pursued the Philistines, and smote them, until they came under Beth-car.

  11. 1 Samuel 11:11 וַיַּכּ֥וּ vai.ya.Ku · An action: causing it, and then it happened, done by them

    And it was so on the morrow, that Saul put the people in three companies; and they came into the midst of the camp in the morning watch, and smote the Ammonites until the heat of the day: and it came to pass, that they that remained were scattered, so that not two of them were left together.

  12. 1 Samuel 13:3 וַיַּ֣ךְ vai.Yakh · An action: causing it, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And Jonathan smote the garrison of the Philistines that was in Geba: and the Philistines heard of it. And Saul blew the trumpet throughout all the land, saying, Let the Hebrews hear.

  13. 1 Samuel 13:4 הִכָּ֤ה hi.Kah · An action: causing it, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    And all Israel heard say that Saul had smitten the garrison of the Philistines, and also that Israel was had in abomination with the Philistines. And the people were gathered together after Saul to Gilgal.

  14. 1 Samuel 14:14 הִכָּ֧ה hi.Kah · An action: causing it, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    And that first slaughter, which Jonathan and his armorbearer made, was about twenty men, within as it were half a furrow's length in an acre of land.

  15. 1 Samuel 14:31 וַיַּכּ֞וּ vai.ya.Ku · An action: causing it, and then it happened, done by them

    And they smote of the Philistines that day from Michmash to Aijalon. And the people were very faint;

  16. 1 Samuel 14:48 וַיַּ֖ךְ vai.Yakh · An action: causing it, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And he did valiantly, and smote the Amalekites, and delivered Israel out of the hands of them that despoiled them.

  17. 1 Samuel 15:3 וְהִכִּֽיתָ֜ה ve.hi.ki.Tah · An action: causing it, and then it will happen, done by you

    Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.

  18. 1 Samuel 15:7 וַיַּ֥ךְ vai.Yakh · An action: causing it, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And Saul smote the Amalekites, from Havilah as thou goest to Shur, that is before Egypt.

  19. 1 Samuel 17:9 וְהִכָּ֔נִי ve.hi.Ka.ni · An action: causing it, and then it will happen, done by him, her or it

    If he be able to fight with me, and kill me, then will we be your servants; but if I prevail against him, and kill him, then shall ye be our servants, and serve us.

  20. 1 Samuel 17:9 וְהִכִּיתִ֔יו ve.hi.ki.Tiv · An action: causing it, and then it will happen, done by me

    If he be able to fight with me, and kill me, then will we be your servants; but if I prevail against him, and kill him, then shall ye be our servants, and serve us.

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