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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. Joshua 11:8 וַיַּכּוּם֒ vai.ya.Kum · An action: causing it, and then it happened, done by them

    And Jehovah delivered them into the hand of Israel, and they smote them, and chased them unto great Sidon, and unto Misrephoth-maim, and unto the valley of Mizpeh eastward; and they smote them, until they left them none remaining.

  2. Joshua 11:8 וַיַּכֻּ֕ם vai.ya.Kum · An action: causing it, and then it happened, done by them

    And Jehovah delivered them into the hand of Israel, and they smote them, and chased them unto great Sidon, and unto Misrephoth-maim, and unto the valley of Mizpeh eastward; and they smote them, until they left them none remaining.

  3. Joshua 11:10 הִכָּ֣ה hi.Kah · An action: causing it, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    And Joshua turned back at that time, and took Hazor, and smote the king thereof with the sword: for Hazor beforetime was the head of all those kingdoms.

  4. Joshua 11:11 וַ֠יַּכּוּ Vai.ya.ku · An action: causing it, and then it happened, done by them

    And they smote all the souls that were therein with the edge of the sword, utterly destroying them; there was none left that breathed: and he burnt Hazor with fire.

  5. Joshua 11:12 וַיַּכֵּ֥ם vai.ya.Kem · An action: causing it, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And all the cities of those kings, and all the kings of them, did Joshua take, and he smote them with the edge of the sword, and utterly destroyed them; as Moses the servant of Jehovah commanded.

  6. Joshua 11:14 הִכּ֣וּ hi.Ku · An action: causing it, finished, with a lasting result, done by them

    And all the spoil of these cities, and the cattle, the children of Israel took for a prey unto themselves; but every man they smote with the edge of the sword, until they had destroyed them, neither left they any that breathed.

  7. Joshua 11:17 וַיַּכֵּ֖ם vai.ya.Kem · An action: causing it, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    from mount Halak, that goeth up to Seir, even unto Baal-gad in the valley of Lebanon under mount Hermon: and all their kings he took, and smote them, and put them to death.

  8. Joshua 12:1 הִכּ֤וּ hi.Ku · An action: causing it, finished, with a lasting result, done by them

    Now these are the kings of the land, whom the children of Israel smote, and possessed their land beyond the Jordan toward the sunrising, from the valley of the Arnon unto mount Hermon, and all the Arabah eastward:

  9. Joshua 12:6 הִכּ֑וּם hi.Kum · An action: causing it, finished, with a lasting result, done by them

    Moses the servant of Jehovah and the children of Israel smote them: and Moses the servant of Jehovah gave it for a possession unto the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh.

  10. Joshua 12:7 הִכָּ֨ה hi.Kah · An action: causing it, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    And these are the kings of the land whom Joshua and the children of Israel smote beyond the Jordan westward, from Baal-gad in the valley of Lebanon even unto mount Halak, that goeth up to Seir; and Joshua gave it unto the tribes of Israel for a possession according to their divisions;

  11. Joshua 13:12 וַיַּכֵּ֥ם vai.ya.Kem · An action: causing it, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    all the kingdom of Og in Bashan, who reigned in Ashtaroth and in Edrei (the same was left of the remnant of the Rephaim); for these did Moses smite, and drove them out.

  12. Joshua 13:21 הִכָּ֨ה hi.Kah · An action: causing it, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    and all the cities of the plain, and all the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, whom Moses smote with the chiefs of Midian, Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, the princes of Sihon, that dwelt in the land.

  13. Joshua 15:16 יַכֶּ֥ה ya.Keh · An action: causing it, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    And Caleb said, He that smiteth Kiriath-sepher, and taketh it, to him will I give Achsah my daughter to wife.

  14. Joshua 19:47 וַיַּכּ֧וּ vai.ya.Ku · An action: causing it, and then it happened, done by them

    And the border of the children of Dan went out beyond them; for the children of Dan went up and fought against Leshem, and took it, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and possessed it, and dwelt therein, and called Leshem, Dan, after the name of Dan their father.

  15. Joshua 20:3 מַכֵּה־ ma.keh- · An -ing word: causing it

    that the manslayer that killeth any person unwittingly and unawares may flee thither: and they shall be unto you for a refuge from the avenger of blood.

  16. Joshua 20:5 הִכָּ֣ה hi.Kah · An action: causing it, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    And if the avenger of blood pursue after him, then they shall not deliver up the manslayer into his hand; because he smote his neighbor unawares, and hated him not beforetime.

  17. Joshua 20:9 מַכֵּה־ ma.keh- · An -ing word: causing it

    These were the appointed cities for all the children of Israel, and for the stranger that sojourneth among them, that whosoever killeth any person unwittingly might flee thither, and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood, until he stood before the congregation.

  18. Judges 1:4 וַיַּכּ֣וּם vai.ya.Kum · An action: causing it, and then it happened, done by them

    And Judah went up; and Jehovah delivered the Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hand: and they smote of them in Bezek ten thousand men.

  19. Judges 1:5 וַיַּכּ֕וּ vai.ya.Ku · An action: causing it, and then it happened, done by them

    And they found Adoni-bezek in Bezek; and they fought against him, and they smote the Canaanites and the Perizzites.

  20. Judges 1:8 וַיַּכּ֖וּהָ vai.ya.Ku.ha · An action: causing it, and then it happened, done by them

    And the children of Judah fought against Jerusalem, and took it, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and set the city on fire.

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