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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:

2 Samuel 20:10: "that was in Joab's hand: so he smote him therewith in the fifth rib, and shed out his bowels"
2 Samuel 21:2: "of the Amorites; and the children of Israel had sworn unto them: and Saul sought to slay them in his zeal"
2 Samuel 21:12: "of Beth-shan, where the Philistines had hanged them, when the Philistines had slain"
2 Samuel 21:16: "being girded with a new sword, thought to have slain David."
2 Samuel 21:17: "the son of Zeruiah succored him, and smote the Philistine, and killed him. Then"
2 Samuel 21:18: "then Sibbechai the Hushathite slew Saph, which was of the sons"
2 Samuel 21:19: "the son of Jaare-oregim, a Bethlehemite, slew the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the staff"
2 Samuel 21:21: "of Shimea the brother of David slew"
2 Samuel 23:10: "He arose, and smote the Philistines until his hand was weary,"
2 Samuel 23:12: "in the midst of the ground, and defended it, and slew the Philistines: and the LORD wrought"
2 Samuel 23:20: "of Kabzeel, who had done many acts, he slew two"
2 Samuel 23:20: "two lionlike men of Moab: he went down also and slew a lion"
2 Samuel 23:21: "And he slew an Egyptian, a goodly man: and the Egyptian"
2 Samuel 23:21: "and plucked the spear out of the Egyptian's hand, and slew him with his own spear."
2 Samuel 24:10: "And David's heart smote him after that he had numbered the people."
2 Samuel 24:17: "when he saw the angel that smote the people, and said, Lo, I"
1 Kings 11:15: "to bury the slain, after he had smitten every male in Edom;"
1 Kings 14:15: "For the LORD shall smite Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water,"
1 Kings 15:20: "he had against the cities of Israel, and smote Ijon, and Dan, and Abel-beth-maachah,"
1 Kings 15:27: "conspired against him; and Baasha smote him at Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines; for Nadab"
1 Kings 15:29: "And it came to pass, when he reigned, that he smote all the house of Jeroboam; he left"
1 Kings 16:7: "like the house of Jeroboam; and because he killed"
1 Kings 16:10: "And Zimri went in and smote him, and killed him, in the twenty and seventh year of Asa"
1 Kings 16:11: "as soon as he sat on his throne, that he slew all the house of Baasha:"
1 Kings 16:16: "Zimri hath conspired, and hath also slain the king: wherefore all Israel"
1 Kings 20:20: " And they slew every one his man: and the Syrians fled; and Israel pursued them: and Ben-hadad"
1 Kings 20:21: "And the king of Israel went out, and smote the horses and chariots, and slew"
1 Kings 20:21: "the horses and chariots, and slew the Syrians with a great slaughter."
1 Kings 20:29: "was joined: and the children of Israel slew of the Syrians a hundred thousand"
1 Kings 20:35: "unto his neighbor in the word of the LORD, Smite me, I pray thee. And the man refused"
1 Kings 20:35: "Smite me, I pray thee. And the man refused to smite"
1 Kings 20:36: "behold, as soon as thou art departed from me, a lion shall slay thee. And as soon as he was departed from"
1 Kings 20:36: "shall slay thee. And as soon as he was departed from him, a lion found him, and slew"
1 Kings 20:37: "another man, and said, Smite me, I pray thee. And the man smote him, so that in smiting"
1 Kings 20:37: "Smite me, I pray thee. And the man smote him, so that in smiting he wounded"
1 Kings 20:37: "me, I pray thee. And the man smote him, so that in smiting he wounded"
1 Kings 22:24: "the son of Chenaanah went near, and smote Micaiah on the cheek,"
1 Kings 22:34: "drew a bow at a venture, and smote the king of Israel between"
2 Kings 2:8: "his mantle, and wrapped it together, and smote the waters, and they were divided hither"
2 Kings 2:14: "that fell from him, and smote the waters, and said,"
2 Kings 2:14: "God of Elijah? and when he also had smitten the waters, they parted"
2 Kings 3:19: " And ye shall smite every fenced city, and every choice city, and shall fell"
2 Kings 3:23: "is blood: the kings are surely slain, and they have smitten one another:"
2 Kings 3:24: "of Israel, the Israelites rose up and smote the Moabites, so that they fled before"
2 Kings 3:24: "the Moabites, so that they fled before them: but they went forward smiting the Moabites,"
2 Kings 3:24: "so that they fled before them: but they went forward smiting the Moabites,"
2 Kings 3:25: "they the stones thereof; howbeit the slingers went about it, and smote"
2 Kings 6:18: "unto the LORD, and said, Smite this people, I pray thee,"
2 Kings 6:18: "people, I pray thee, with blindness. And he smote them with blindness according to the word of Elisha."
2 Kings 6:21: "Elisha, when he saw them, My father, shall I smite them? shall I smite"









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