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Word Study · Strong's H5221 · Hebrew

נָכָה

nakah

naw-kaw'

Strong's 1890 spelling: nâkâh

to strike (lightly or severely, literally or figuratively)

Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain

to strike (lightly or severely, literally or figuratively)

Rendered in the KJV as

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.

  • 499
    occurrencesin the Old Testament
  • 31 of 39
    Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
  • 290
    inflected formsdistinct spellings

Across 499 occurrences

The word itself

Inflected forms · 290

  • וַיַּ֥ךְ19
  • וַיַּ֤ךְ12
  • וַיַּ֣ךְ11
  • וַיַּךְ֙11
  • וַיַּכּ֥וּ11
  • הִכָּ֣ה9
  • הִכָּ֤ה8
  • וַיַּכֵּ֥ם7
  • וַיַּכֶּ֣ה6
  • וַיַּכּוּ֙6
  • וַיַּכּ֨וּ5
  • מַכֵּה־5

and 278 more spellings in the ledger below.

How it is rendered · 203

  • and he struck down38
  • and he struck29
  • and they struck down27
  • he struck down17
  • and he struck down him10
  • and he defeated8
  • and he struck down them8
  • and they struck8
  • he struck7
  • to strike7
  • and he struck him6
  • and they defeated6

The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.

How it parses · 110

  • Hc/Vhw3ms81
  • Hc/Vhw3mp47
  • verb · causative (hiphil), completed action · 3rd person masculine singular43
  • Hc/Vhw3ms/Sp3ms23
  • preposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)17
  • Hc/Vhw3ms/Sp3mp15
  • Hc/Vhq3ms11
  • Hc/Vhw3mp/Sp3mp11
  • verb · causative (hiphil), participle (“the one who…”) · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)11
  • verb · causative (hiphil), ongoing or future action · 3rd person masculine singular10
  • verb · causative (hiphil), completed action · 2nd person masculine singular10
  • Hc/Vhq1cs9
Show the grammar codes as tagged
  • Hc/Vhw3ms · 81
  • Hc/Vhw3mp · 47
  • HVhp3ms · 43
  • Hc/Vhw3ms/Sp3ms · 23
  • HR/Vhcc · 17
  • Hc/Vhw3ms/Sp3mp · 15
  • Hc/Vhq3ms · 11
  • Hc/Vhw3mp/Sp3mp · 11
  • HVhrmsc · 11
  • HVhi3ms · 10
  • HVhp2ms · 10
  • Hc/Vhq1cs · 9

All 499, in canonical order

The ledger of occurrences

Where this word lives

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Genesis12 occurrences
Exodus28 occurrences
Leviticus5 occurrences
Numbers30 occurrences
Deuteronomy24 occurrences
Joshua38 occurrences
Judges29 occurrences
1 Samuel52 occurrences
2 Samuel47 occurrences
1 Kings22 occurrences
2 Kings56 occurrences
1 Chronicles25 occurrences
2 Chronicles20 occurrences
Nehemiah1 occurrence
Esther1 occurrence
Job4 occurrences
Psalms13 occurrences
Proverbs6 occurrences
Song of Solomon1 occurrence
Isaiah21 occurrences
Jeremiah30 occurrences
Lamentations1 occurrence
Ezekiel13 occurrences
Daniel1 occurrence
Hosea3 occurrences
Amos4 occurrences
Jonah2 occurrences
Micah2 occurrences
Haggai1 occurrence
Zechariah6 occurrences
Malachi1 occurrence
Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), CC BY 4.0 — their grammar codes written out in English here, and shown as tagged under each list. Dictionary: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).