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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. Proverbs 17:10 מֵהַכּ֖וֹת me.ha.Kot · The “to do” form of an action: causing it

    A rebuke entereth deeper into one that hath understanding Than a hundred stripes into a fool.

  2. Proverbs 17:26 לְהַכּ֖וֹת le.ha.Kot · The “to do” form of an action: causing it

    Also to punish the righteous is not good, Nor to smite the noble for their uprightness.

  3. Proverbs 19:25 תַּ֭כֶּה Ta.keh · An action: causing it, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by you

    Smite a scoffer, and the simple will learn prudence; And reprove one that hath understanding, and he will understand knowledge.

  4. Proverbs 23:13 תַכֶּ֥נּוּ ta.Ke.nu · An action: causing it, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by you

    Withhold not correction from the child; For if thou beat him with the rod, he will not die.

  5. Proverbs 23:14 תַּכֶּ֑נּוּ ta.Ke.nu · An action: causing it, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by you

    Thou shalt beat him with the rod, And shalt deliver his soul from Sheol.

  6. Proverbs 23:35 הִכּ֥וּנִי hi.Ku.ni · An action: causing it, finished, with a lasting result, done by them

    They have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was not hurt; They have beaten me, and I felt it not: When shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.

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