Hebrew verb · H5062
נָגַף
nagaphnaw-gaf'
to strike
49 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: nâgaph
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H5062is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 17 of 39Old Testament books
- 43spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H5062
to push, gore, defeat, stub (the toe), inflict (a disease)
The King James renders it: beat, dash, hurt, plague, slay, smite (down), strike, stumble, [idiom] surely, put to the worse.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
nagaph is rendered "to strike". It stands 49 times in the Hebrew text, across seventeen books.
- Eight of the uses stand in 2 Chronicles, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Exodus 8:2But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs.
- The Greek text spells it forty-three different ways.
The first use
But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs.
Exodus 8:2נֹגֵ֛ף
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
The word stands in seventeen of the 39 Old Testament books.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- and it was defeated4
- defeated4
- and he struck3
- and they were defeated3
- about to strike2
- and he defeated2
- he will strike2
- it will strike2
- they had been defeated2
- they were defeated2
- to strike2
- you will be defeated2
and 19 more, 49 uses in all
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
The words it stands beside
All 49, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
43 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- וַיִּנָּ֥גֶף3
- וַיִּנָּ֤גֶף2
- יִגֹּ֤ף2
- נֹגֵ֛ף2
- נִגְּפוּ֙2
- אֶגּֽוֹף׃1
- בְּֽהִנָּגֵ֞ף1
- בְּנָגְפּ֥וֹ1
- וָאֶגֹּ֣ף1
- וַיִּגֹּ֥ף1
- וַיִּגֹּ֨ף1
- וַיִּגֹּ֧ף1
and 31 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- Hc/VNw3ms5Hc/VNw3ms
- Hc/Vqw3ms5Hc/Vqw3ms
- verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural4HVNp3cp
- Hc/VNw3mp3Hc/VNw3mp
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular3HVqi3ms
- preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)2HR/Vqcc
- verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine plural2HVNi2mp
- verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine plural2HVNrmpa
- verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine singular2HVNrmsa
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singular2HVqi3fs
- verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular2HVqrmsa
- Hc/VNq2mp1Hc/VNq2mp
Exodus
seven uses
But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs.
- נֹגֵ֛ףnogefverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: about to strike
When the LORD passes through to strike down the Egyptians, He will see the blood on the top and sides of the doorframe and will pass over that doorway; so He will not allow the destroyer to enter your houses and strike you down.
- לִנְגֹּ֣ףlingofpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to strike
- לִנְגֹּֽף׃lingofpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to strike
you are to reply, ‘It is the Passover sacrifice to the LORD, who passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt when He struck down the Egyptians and spared our homes.’” Then the people bowed down and worshiped.
- בְּנָגְפּ֥וֹbenagepopreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: when struck he
If men who are fighting strike a pregnant woman and her child is born prematurely, but there is no further injury, he shall surely be fined as the woman’s husband demands and as the court allows.
- וְנָ֨גְפ֜וּvenagefuHc/Vqq3cptagged: and they will strike
If a man’s ox injures his neighbor’s ox and it dies, they must sell the live one and divide the proceeds; they also must divide the dead animal.
- יִגֹּ֧ףyigofverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it will strike
And the LORD sent a plague on the people because of what they had done with the calf that Aaron had made.
- וַיִּגֹּ֥ףvaiyigofHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he struck
Leviticus
one use
And I will set My face against you, so that you will be defeated by your enemies. Those who hate you will rule over you, and you will flee when no one pursues you.
- וְנִגַּפְתֶּ֖םvenigaftemHc/VNq2mptagged: and you will be defeated
Numbers
one use
Do not go up, lest you be struck down by your enemies, because the LORD is not among you.
- תִּנָּ֣גְפ֔וּtinagefuverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you will be defeated
Deuteronomy
three uses
But the LORD said to me, “Tell them not to go up and fight, for I am not with you to keep you from defeat by your enemies.”
- תִּנָּֽגְפ֔וּtinagefuverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you will be defeated
The LORD will cause the enemies who rise up against you to be defeated before you. They will march out against you in one direction but flee from you in seven.
- נִגָּפִ֖יםnigafimverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: defeated
The LORD will cause you to be defeated before your enemies. You will march out against them in one direction but flee from them in seven. You will be an object of horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.
- נִגָּף֮nigafverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine singulartagged: defeated
Joshua
one use
Then I sent Moses and Aaron, and I afflicted the Egyptians by what I did there, and afterward I brought you out.
- וָאֶגֹּ֣ףvaegofHc/Vqw1cstagged: and I struck
Judges
five uses
“We are defeating them as before,” said the Benjamites. But the Israelites said, “Let us retreat and draw them away from the city onto the roads.”
- נִגָּפִ֥יםnigafimverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: defeated
The LORD defeated Benjamin in the presence of Israel, and on that day the Israelites slaughtered 25,100 Benjamites, all armed with swords.
- וַיִּגֹּ֨ףvaiyigofHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he defeated
Then the Benjamites realized they had been defeated. Now the men of Israel had retreated before Benjamin because they were relying on the ambush they had set against Gibeah.
- נִגָּ֑פוּnigafuverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they were defeated
the men of Israel would turn in the battle. When the Benjamites had begun to strike them down, killing about thirty men of Israel, they said, “They are defeated before us as in the first battle.”
- נִגּ֨וֹףnigofverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), infinitive absolutetagged: certainly to defeated
- נִגָּ֥ףnigafverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine singulartagged: defeated
1 Samuel
six uses
The Philistines arrayed themselves against Israel, and as the battle spread, Israel was defeated by the Philistines, who struck down about four thousand men on the battlefield.
- וַיִּנָּ֥גֶףvaiyinagefHc/VNw3mstagged: and it was defeated
When the troops returned to the camp, the elders of Israel asked, “Why has the LORD brought defeat on us before the Philistines today? Let us bring the ark of the covenant of the LORD from Shiloh, so that it may go with us to save us from the hand of our enemies.”
- נְגָפָ֧נוּnegafanuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: has he defeated us
So the Philistines fought, and Israel was defeated, and each man fled to his tent. The slaughter was very great—thirty thousand foot soldiers of Israel fell.
- וַיִּנָּ֤גֶףvaiyinagefHc/VNw3mstagged: and it was defeated
As the Philistines drew near to fight against Israel, Samuel was sacrificing the burnt offering. But that day the LORD thundered loudly against the Philistines and threw them into such confusion that they fled before Israel.
- וַיִּנָּגְפ֖וּvaiyinagefuHc/VNw3mptagged: and they were defeated
About ten days later, the LORD struck Nabal dead.
- וַיִּגֹּ֧ףvaiyigofHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he struck
David added, “As surely as the LORD lives, the LORD Himself will strike him down; either his day will come and he will die, or he will go into battle and perish.
- יִגָּפֶ֑נּוּyigafenuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will strike him
2 Samuel
five uses
The battle that day was intense, and Abner and the men of Israel were defeated by the servants of David.
- וַיִּנָּ֤גֶףvaiyinagefHc/VNw3mstagged: and he was defeated
When the Arameans saw that they had been defeated by Israel, they regrouped.
- נִגַּ֖ףnigafverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it was defeated
When all the kings who were subject to Hadadezer saw that they had been defeated by Israel, they made peace with Israel and became subject to them. So the Arameans were afraid to help the Ammonites anymore.
- נִגְּפוּ֙nigefuverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they were defeated
After Nathan had gone home, the LORD struck the child that Uriah’s wife had borne to David, and he became ill.
- וַיִּגֹּ֣ףvaiyigofHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he struck
There the people of Israel were defeated by David’s servants, and the slaughter was great that day—twenty thousand men.
- וַיִּנָּ֤גְפוּvaiyinagefuHc/VNw3mptagged: and they were defeated
1 Kings
one use
When Your people Israel are defeated before an enemy because they have sinned against You, and they return to You and confess Your name, praying and pleading with You in this temple,
- בְּֽהִנָּגֵ֞ףbehinagefpreposition + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: when are defeated
2 Kings
one use
And Judah was routed before Israel, and every man fled to his home.
- וַיִּנָּ֥גֶףvaiyinagefHc/VNw3mstagged: and it was defeated
1 Chronicles
two uses
When the Arameans saw that they had been defeated by Israel, they sent messengers to bring more Arameans from beyond the Euphrates, with Shophach the commander of Hadadezer’s army leading them.
- נִגְּפוּ֮nigefuverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they had been defeated
When Hadadezer’s subjects saw that they had been defeated by Israel, they made peace with David and became subject to him. So the Arameans were unwilling to help the Ammonites anymore.
- נִגְּפוּ֙nigefuverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they had been defeated
2 Chronicles
eight uses
When Your people Israel are defeated before an enemy because they have sinned against You, and they return to You and confess Your name, praying and pleading before You in this temple,
- יִנָּגֵ֞ףyinagefverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it will be defeated
and the men of Judah raised the battle cry. And when they raised the cry, God routed Jeroboam and all Israel before Abijah and Judah.
- נָגַ֤ףnagafverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he defeated
Jeroboam did not again recover his power during the days of Abijah, and the LORD struck him down and he died.
- וַיִּגְּפֵ֥הוּvaiyigefehuHc/Vqw3ms/Sp3mstagged: and he struck him
So the LORD struck down the Cushites before Asa and Judah, and the Cushites fled.
- וַיִּגֹּ֤ףvaiyigofHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he defeated
The moment they began their shouts and praises, the LORD set ambushes against the men of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir who had come against Judah, and they were defeated.
- וַיִּנָּגֵֽפוּ׃vaiyinagefuHc/VNw3mptagged: and they were defeated
So behold, the LORD is about to strike your people, your sons, your wives, and all your possessions with a serious blow.
- נֹגֵ֛ףnogefverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: about to strike
After all this, the LORD afflicted Jehoram with an incurable disease of the bowels.
- נְגָפ֨וֹnegafoverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he struck him
And Judah was routed before Israel, and every man fled to his own home.
- וַיִּנָּ֥גֶףvaiyinagefHc/VNw3mstagged: and it was defeated
Psalms
two uses
I will crush his foes before him and strike down those who hate him.
- אֶגּֽוֹף׃ʾegofverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will strike down
They will lift you up in their hands, so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.
- תִּגֹּ֖ףtigofverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: you should strike
Proverbs
one use
Then you will go on your way in safety, and your foot will not stumble.
- תִגּֽוֹף׃tigofverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it will strike
Isaiah
two uses
And the LORD will strike Egypt with a plague; He will strike them but heal them. They will turn to the LORD, and He will hear their prayers and heal them.
- וְנָגַ֧ףvenagafHc/Vqq3mstagged: and he will strike
- נָגֹ֣ףnagofverb · simple (qal), infinitive absolutetagged: striking
Jeremiah
one use
Give glory to the LORD your God before He brings darkness, before your feet stumble on the dusky mountains. You wait for light, but He turns it into deep gloom and thick darkness.
- יִֽתְנַגְּפ֥וּyitnagefuverb · reflexive (hithpael), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will stumble
Zechariah
two uses
And this will be the plague with which the LORD strikes all the peoples who have warred against Jerusalem: Their flesh will rot while they stand on their feet, their eyes will rot in their sockets, and their tongues will rot in their mouths.
- יִגֹּ֤ףyigofverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will strike
And if the people of Egypt will not go up and enter in, then the rain will not fall on them; this will be the plague with which the LORD strikes the nations who do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles.
- יִגֹּ֤ףyigofverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will strike
The letters
Gematria 133· 853 mispar gadol
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.
