Hebrew verb · H5362
נָקַף
naqaphnaw-kaf'
to strike; to surround
19 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: nâqaph
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H5362is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 9 of 39Old Testament books
- 19spellings
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H5362
to strike with more or less violence (beat, fell, corrode); by implication (of attack) to knock together, i.e. surround or circulate
The King James renders it: compass (about, -ing), cut down, destroy, go round (about), inclose, round.
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
naqaph is rendered "to strike; to surround". It stands 19 times in the Hebrew text, across nine books.
- Four of the uses stand in Psalms, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "to strike".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Leviticus 19:27You must not cut off the hair at the sides of your head or clip off the edges of your beard.
- The Greek text spells it nineteen different ways.
The first use
You must not cut off the hair at the sides of your head or clip off the edges of your beard.
Leviticus 19:27תַקִּ֔פוּ
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
The word stands in nine of the 39 Old Testament books.
What the word means
The word carries two meanings: to strike, and to surround.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| to strikeStrong's entry A | Tagged aslisted under the table | WhereLeviticus 19:27You must not cut off the hair at the sides of your head or clip off the edges of your beard. |
| to surroundStrong's entry B | Tagged aslisted under the table | Wherein the ledger below |
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- surrounding2
- and go round it1
- and he has surrounded1
- and he will cut down1
- and they surrounded1
- and they will surround1
- and you will surround1
- he has closed1
- it encircled1
- it has gone around1
- let them go around1
- people have struck off1
and 6 more, 19 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.
All 19, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
19 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
- הַקֵּ֥יף1
- הִקִּֽיף׃1
- הִקִּ֥יפָה1
- הִקִּ֖יפוּ1
- הִקִּיפֽוּ֩1
- הִקִּיפ֑וּנִי1
- הַקֵּ֖ף1
- וְהִקִּיפוּ֩1
- וְהַקִּיפ֑וּהָ1
- וְהִקַּפְתֶּ֨ם1
- וַיַּקַּ֖ף1
- וַיַּקִּ֖פוּ1
and 7 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive absolute2HVhaa
- verb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural2HVhp3cp
- verb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine plural2HVhrmpa
- Hc/Vhq2mp1Hc/Vhq2mp
- Hc/Vhq3cp1Hc/Vhq3cp
- conjunction (“and”) + verb · causative (hiphil), command · 2nd person masculine plural + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singular1HC/Vhv2mp/Sp3fs
- Hc/Vhw3mp1Hc/Vhw3mp
- Hc/Vhw3ms1Hc/Vhw3ms
- Hc/Vpq3ms1Hc/Vpq3ms
- verb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine plural1HVhi2mp
- verb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural1HVhi3mp
- verb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular1HVhp3cp/Sp1bs
Leviticus
one use
You must not cut off the hair at the sides of your head or clip off the edges of your beard.
- תַקִּ֔פוּtakifuverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you will round off
Joshua
two uses
March around the city with all the men of war, circling the city one time. Do this for six days.
- הַקֵּ֥יףhakeifverb · causative (hiphil), infinitive absolutetagged: you will encircle
So he had the ark of the LORD carried around the city, circling it once. And the people returned to the camp and spent the night there.
- הַקֵּ֖ףhakefverb · causative (hiphil), infinitive absolutetagged: it encircled
1 Kings
one use
Below the rim, ornamental buds encircled it, ten per cubit all the way around the Sea, cast in two rows as a part of the Sea.
- מַקִּפִ֥יםmakifimverb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine pluraltagged: surrounding
2 Kings
two uses
the king of Aram sent horses, chariots, and a great army. They went there by night and surrounded the city.
- וַיַּקִּ֖פוּvaiyakifuHc/Vhw3mptagged: and they surrounded
You must surround the king with weapons in hand, and anyone who approaches the ranks must be put to death. You must stay close to the king wherever he goes.”
- וְהִקַּפְתֶּ֨םvehikaftemHc/Vhq2mptagged: and you will surround
2 Chronicles
two uses
Below the rim, figures of oxen encircled it, ten per cubit all the way around the Sea, cast in two rows as a part of the Sea.
- מַקִּיפִ֥יםmakifimverb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine pluraltagged: surrounding
The Levites must surround the king with weapons in hand, and anyone who enters the temple must be put to death. You must stay close to the king wherever he goes.”
- וְהִקִּיפוּ֩vehikifuHc/Vhq3cptagged: and they will surround
Job
three uses
And when the days of feasting were over, Job would send for his children to purify them, rising early in the morning to offer burnt offerings for all of them. For Job thought, “Perhaps my children have sinned and cursed God in their hearts.” This was Job’s regular practice.
- הִקִּיפֽוּ֩hikifuverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they had gone round
then understand that it is God who has wronged me and drawn His net around me.
- הִקִּֽיף׃hikifverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he has closed
Even after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God.
- נִקְּפוּ־nikefu-verb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: people have struck off
Psalms
four uses
from the wicked who assail me, from my mortal enemies who surround me.
- יַקִּ֥יפוּyakifuverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they surround
For dogs surround me; a band of evil men encircles me; they have pierced my hands and feet.
- הִקִּיפ֑וּנִיhikifuniverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: they have encircled me
March around Zion, encircle her, count her towers,
- וְהַקִּיפ֑וּהָvehakifuhaconjunction (“and”) + verb · causative (hiphil), command · 2nd person masculine plural + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: and go round it
All day long they engulf me like water; they enclose me on every side.
- הִקִּ֖יפוּhikifuverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have surrounded
Isaiah
three uses
He will clear the forest thickets with an axe, and Lebanon will fall before the Mighty One.
- וְנִקַּ֛ףvenikafHc/Vpq3mstagged: and he will cut down
For their outcry echoes to the border of Moab. Their wailing reaches Eglaim; it is heard in Beer-elim.
- הִקִּ֥יפָהhikifahverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it has gone around
Woe to you, O Ariel, the city of Ariel where David camped! Year upon year let your festivals recur.
- יִנְקֹֽפוּ׃yinkofuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: let them go around
Lamentations
one use
He has besieged me and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.
- וַיַּקַּ֖ףvaiyakafHc/Vhw3mstagged: and he has surrounded
The letters
Gematria 230· 950 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 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.