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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. Judges 20:31 לְהַכּוֹת֩ le.ha.kOt · The “to do” form of an action: causing it

    And the children of Benjamin went out against the people, and were drawn away from the city; and they began to smite and kill of the people, as at other times, in the highways, of which one goeth up to Beth-el, and the other to Gibeah, in the field, about thirty men of Israel.

  2. Judges 20:37 וַיַּ֥ךְ vai.Yakh · An action: causing it, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And the liers-in-wait hasted, and rushed upon Gibeah; and the liers-in-wait drew themselves along, and smote all the city with the edge of the sword.

  3. Judges 20:39 לְהַכּ֨וֹת le.ha.Kot · The “to do” form of an action: causing it

    And the men of Israel turned in the battle, and Benjamin began to smite and kill of the men of Israel about thirty persons; for they said, Surely they are smitten down before us, as in the first battle.

  4. Judges 20:45 וַיַּכּ֥וּ vai.ya.Ku · An action: causing it, and then it happened, done by them

    And they turned and fled toward the wilderness unto the rock of Rimmon: and they gleaned of them in the highways five thousand men, and followed hard after them unto Gidom, and smote of them two thousand men.

  5. Judges 20:48 וַיַּכּ֣וּם vai.ya.Kum · An action: causing it, and then it happened, done by them

    And the men of Israel turned again upon the children of Benjamin, and smote them with the edge of the sword, both the entire city, and the cattle, and all that they found: moreover all the cities which they found they set on fire.

  6. Judges 21:10 וְהִכִּיתֶ֞ם ve.hi.ki.Tem · An action: causing it, and then it will happen, done by all of you

    And the congregation sent thither twelve thousand men of the valiantest, and commanded them, saying, Go and smite the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead with the edge of the sword, with the women and the little ones.

  7. 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.

  8. 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.

  9. 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.

  10. 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.

  11. 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.

  12. 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.

  13. 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.

  14. 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.

  15. 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.

  16. 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.

  17. 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.

  18. 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.

  19. 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.

  20. 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.

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