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נָכָה

na.khah · to smite

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

English

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. Leviticus 24:17 יַכֶּ֖ה ya.Keh · An action: causing it, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    And he that smiteth any man mortally shall surely be put to death.

  2. Leviticus 24:18 וּמַכֵּ֥ה u.ma.Keh · An -ing word: causing it

    And he that smiteth a beast mortally shall make it good, life for life.

  3. Leviticus 24:21 וּמַכֵּ֥ה u.ma.Keh · An -ing word: causing it

    And he that killeth a beast shall make it good: and he that killeth a man shall be put to death.

  4. Leviticus 24:21 וּמַכֵּ֥ה u.ma.Keh · An -ing word: causing it

    And he that killeth a beast shall make it good: and he that killeth a man shall be put to death.

  5. Leviticus 26:24 וְהִכֵּיתִ֤י ve.hi.kei.Ti · An action: causing it, and then it will happen, done by me

    then will I also walk contrary unto you; and I will smite you, even I, seven times for your sins.

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