Strong's #5221: nakah (pronounced naw-kaw')
a primitive root; to strike (lightly or severely, literally or figuratively):--beat, cast forth, clap, give (wounds), X go forward, X indeed, kill, make (slaughter), murderer, punish, slaughter, slay(-er, -ing), smite(-r, -ing), strike, be stricken, (give) stripes, X surely, wound.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
nâkâh
1) to strike, smite, hit, beat, slay, kill
1a) (Niphal) to be stricken or smitten
1b) (Pual) to be stricken or smitten
1c) (Hiphil)
1c1) to smite, strike, beat, scourge, clap, applaud, give a thrust
1c2) to smite, kill, slay (man or beast)
1c3) to smite, attack, attack and destroy, conquer, subjugate, ravage
1c4) to smite, chastise, send judgment upon, punish, destroy
1d) (Hophal) to be smitten
1d1) to receive a blow
1d2) to be wounded
1d3) to be beaten
1d4) to be (fatally) smitten, be killed, be slain
1d5) to be attacked and captured
1d6) to be smitten (with disease)
1d7) to be blighted (of plants)
Part of Speech: verb
Relation: a primitive root
Usage:
This word is used 501 times:
1 Samuel 19:5: "his life in his hand, and slew the Philistine, and the LORD wrought"
1 Samuel 19:8: "went out, and fought with the Philistines, and slew them with a great slaughter; and they fled from"
1 Samuel 19:10: "And Saul sought to smite David even to the wall with the javelin; but he slipped away out of Saul's presence,"
1 Samuel 19:10: "with the javelin; but he slipped away out of Saul's presence, and he smote the javelin"
1 Samuel 20:33: "a javelin at him to smite him: whereby Jonathan knew that it"
1 Samuel 21:9: "of Goliath the Philistine, whom thou slewest in the valley of Elah, behold, it"
1 Samuel 21:11: "in dances, saying, Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands?"
1 Samuel 22:19: "And Nob, the city of the priests, smote he with the edge of the sword, both men"
1 Samuel 23:2: "of the LORD, saying, Shall I go and smite these Philistines? And the LORD said"
1 Samuel 23:2: "unto David, Go, and smite the Philistines, and save Keilah."
1 Samuel 23:5: "and brought away their cattle, and smote them with a great slaughter. So David saved"
1 Samuel 24:5: "afterward, that David's heart smote him, because he had cut off"
1 Samuel 26:8: "into thine hand this day: now therefore let me smite him, I pray thee, with the spear even to the earth at once,"
1 Samuel 27:9: "And David smote the land, and left neither man nor woman"
1 Samuel 29:5: "one to another in dances, saying, Saul slew his thousands, and David his ten thousands?"
1 Samuel 30:1: "had invaded the south, and Ziklag, and smitten Ziklag, and burned"
1 Samuel 30:17: "And David smote them from the twilight even unto the evening of the next day: and there escaped"
1 Samuel 31:2: "Saul and upon his sons; and the Philistines slew Jonathan, and Abinadab, and Malchi-shua,"
2 Samuel 1:1: "of Saul, when David was returned from the slaughter of the Amalekites, and David"
2 Samuel 1:15: "of the young men, and said, Go near, and fall upon him. And he smote him that he died."
2 Samuel 2:22: "Turn thee aside from following me: wherefore should I smite thee to the ground? how then should I hold up"
2 Samuel 2:23: "wherefore Abner with the hinder end of the spear smote him under the fifth rib, that the spear came out"
2 Samuel 2:31: "But the servants of David had smitten of Benjamin, and of Abner's men,"
2 Samuel 3:27: "the gate to speak with him quietly, and smote him there under the fifth rib, that he died,"
2 Samuel 4:6: "of the house, as though they would have fetched wheat; and they smote him under the fifth rib: and Rechab and Baanah"
2 Samuel 4:7: "on his bed in his bedchamber, and they smote him, and slew him, and beheaded"
2 Samuel 5:8: "Whosoever getteth up to the gutter, and smiteth the Jebusites, and the lame and the blind, that are hated"
2 Samuel 5:20: "came to Baal-perazim, and David smote them there, and said, The LORD hath broken forth upon"
2 Samuel 5:24: "shall the LORD go out before thee, to smite the host of the Philistines."
2 Samuel 5:25: "as the LORD had commanded him; and smote the Philistines from Geba"
2 Samuel 6:7: "was kindled against Uzzah; and God smote him there for his error; and there"
2 Samuel 8:1: "this it came to pass, that David smote the Philistines, and subdued them: and David"
2 Samuel 8:2: " And he smote Moab, and measured them with a line, casting them down to the ground;"
2 Samuel 8:3: "David smote also Hadadezer, the son of Rehob, king of Zobah,"
2 Samuel 8:5: "king of Zobah, David slew of the Syrians two and twenty thousand"
2 Samuel 8:9: "heard that David had smitten all the host of Hadadezer,"
2 Samuel 8:10: "him, and to bless him, because he had fought against Hadadezer, and smitten him: for Hadadezer"
2 Samuel 8:13: "got him a name when he returned from smiting of the Syrians in the valley"
2 Samuel 10:18: "of the Syrians, and forty thousand horsemen, and smote Shobach the captain"
2 Samuel 11:15: "of the hottest battle, and retire ye from him, that he may be smitten, and die."
2 Samuel 11:21: "Who smote Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? did not a woman"
2 Samuel 12:9: "to do evil in his sight? thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword,"
2 Samuel 13:28: "with wine, and when I say unto you, Smite Amnon; then kill him, fear"
2 Samuel 13:30: "David, saying, Absalom hath slain all the king's sons,"
2 Samuel 14:6: "and there was none to part them, but the one smote the other, and slew"
2 Samuel 14:7: "and they said, Deliver him that smote his brother, that we may kill him, for the life of his brother"
2 Samuel 15:14: "and bring evil upon us, and smite the city with the edge of the sword."
2 Samuel 17:2: "the people that are with him shall flee; and I will smite the king only:"
2 Samuel 18:11: "thou sawest him, and why didst thou not smite him there to the ground? and I would have given thee ten"
2 Samuel 18:15: "Joab's armor compassed about and smote Absalom, and slew"
