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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. Zechariah 9:4 וְהִכָּ֥ה ve.hi.Kah · An action: causing it, and then it will happen, done by him, her or it

    Behold, the Lord will dispossess her, and he will smite her power in the sea; and she shall be devoured with fire.

  2. Zechariah 10:11 וְהִכָּ֤ה ve.hi.Kah · An action: causing it, and then it will happen, done by him, her or it

    And he will pass through the sea of affliction, and will smite the waves in the sea, and all the depths of the Nile shall dry up; and the pride of Assyria shall be brought down, and the sceptre of Egypt shall depart.

  3. Zechariah 12:4 אַכֶּ֤ה 'a.Keh · An action: causing it, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by me

    In that day, saith Jehovah, I will smite every horse with terror, and his rider with madness; and I will open mine eyes upon the house of Judah, and will smite every horse of the peoples with blindness.

  4. Zechariah 12:4 אַכֶּ֖ה 'a.Keh · An action: causing it, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by me

    In that day, saith Jehovah, I will smite every horse with terror, and his rider with madness; and I will open mine eyes upon the house of Judah, and will smite every horse of the peoples with blindness.

  5. Zechariah 13:6 הֻכֵּ֖יתִי hu.Kei.ti · An action: being caused, finished, with a lasting result, done by me

    And one shall say unto him, What are these wounds between thine arms? Then he shall answer, Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends.

  6. Zechariah 13:7 הַ֤ךְ hakh · A command to you: causing it

    Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, saith Jehovah of hosts: smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered; and I will turn my hand upon the little ones.

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