Strong's Definition
a primitive root; properly, to touch, i.e. lay the hand upon (for any purpose; euphem., to lie with a woman); by implication, to reach (figuratively, to arrive, acquire); violently, to strike (punish, defeat, destroy, etc.)
KJV Usage: beat, (X be able to) bring (down), cast, come (nigh), draw near (nigh), get up, happen, join, near, plague, reach (up), smite, strike, touch
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
נָגַע (na.ga) — to touch. 1) to touch, reach, strike 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to touch 1a2) to strike 1a3) to reach, extend to 1a4) to be stricken 1a4a) stricken (participle) 1b) (Niphal) to be stricken, be defeated 1c) (Piel) to strike 1d) (Pual) to be stricken (by disease) 1e) (Hiphil) to cause to touch, reach, approach, arrive 1e1) to cause to touch, apply 1e2) to reach, extend, attain, arrive, come 1e3) to approach (of time) 1e4) to befall (of fate)
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
verb · נֶגַע
Touch | verb qal, verb hif | ≈ נבט
to touch = process or action by which the hand or another part of the body of humans gets in brief contact with an object, whether deliberately or not
GEN 3:3 · GEN 32:26 · GEN 32:33 · EXO 4:25 · EXO 12:22 · EXO 19:12 · EXO 19:12 · EXO 19:13 · EXO 29:37 · EXO 30:29 · LEV 5:2 · LEV 5:3 · LEV 6:11 · LEV 6:20 · LEV 7:19 · LEV 7:21 · LEV 11:8 · LEV 11:24 · LEV 11:26 · LEV 11:27 · LEV 11:31 · LEV 11:36 · LEV 11:39 · LEV 12:4 · LEV 15:5 · LEV 15:7 · LEV 15:10 · LEV 15:11 · LEV 15:12 · LEV 15:19 · LEV 15:21 · LEV 15:22 · LEV 15:23 · LEV 15:27 · LEV 22:4 · LEV 22:5 · LEV 22:6 · NUM 4:15 · NUM 16:26 · NUM 19:11 · NUM 19:13 · NUM 19:16 · NUM 19:18 · NUM 19:21 · NUM 19:22 · NUM 19:22 · NUM 31:19 · DEU 14:8 · JDG 6:21 · 2SA 23:7 · 1KI 19:5 · 1KI 19:7 · 2KI 13:21 · EST 5:2 · JOB 6:7 · JOB 20:6 · PSA 104:32 · PSA 144:5 · ISA 6:7 · ISA 6:7 · ISA 52:11 · JER 1:9 · JER 4:10 · LAM 4:14 · LAM 4:15 · DAN 8:5 · DAN 8:18 · DAN 10:10 · DAN 10:16 · DAN 10:18 · AMO 9:5 · HAG 2:12 · HAG 2:13
Attach | verb qal, verb hif
to touch, to reach, to extend literally: to touch; hence: = state in which an inanimate object is in contact with another object
GEN 28:12 · 1KI 6:27 · 1KI 6:27 · 1KI 6:27 · 2CH 3:11 · 2CH 3:11 · 2CH 3:12 · ZEC 14:5
Attach | verb hif | ≈ קרב
to join literally: to cause to touch; hence: = causative action by which humans cause one object to be in physical contact with another object
Copulate | verb qal | ≈ בוא
to touch (a woman) > to have sex literally: to touch (a woman); hence: = action by which a man has sexual relations with a woman, either or not consensually
Impact | verb qal, verb pi, verb pu'al | ≈ נכה · רעע
to strike, to afflict, to molest literally: to touch; hence: = causative action by which humans, deities or forces cause harm to humans or objects
GEN 12:17 · GEN 26:11 · GEN 26:29 · JOS 9:19 · RUT 2:9 · 1SA 6:9 · 2SA 14:10 · 2KI 15:5 · 1CH 16:22 · 2CH 26:20 · JOB 1:11 · JOB 1:19 · JOB 2:5 · JOB 19:21 · PSA 73:5 · PSA 73:14 · PSA 105:15 · ISA 53:4 · JER 12:14 · EZK 17:10 · ZEC 2:12 · ZEC 2:12
Control
to pretend to be beaten literally: to be struck; hence: = action by which a group of soldiers acts as if they are suffering harm from the enemy
Think | verb qal
Collocation: נגע בְּלֵב · נגע עַד לֵב
to touch the heart (of people) literally: to touch the heart; hence: = causative action where deities are changing the feelings or thinking patterns of humans, either directly or through certain events
Move | verb qal, verb hif
to come, to arrive, to reach literally: to touch; hence: = process or action by which humans or substances arrive at a certain location
1SA 14:9 · 2SA 5:8 · EST 6:14 · PSA 32:6 · PSA 107:18 · ISA 8:8 · ISA 16:8 · ISA 30:4 · JER 48:32 · DAN 8:7 · DAN 9:21
Dead | verb hif
Collocation: חַיִּים נגע לִשְׁאֹול
to be at the brink of death literally: (one's) life reaches sheol; hence: = process by which humans get close to death
Happen | verb qal, verb hif
to come, to arrive, to happen literally: to reach; hence: = process by which a certain event reaches the time for it to take place
JDG 20:34 · JDG 20:41 · EZR 3:1 · NEH 7:72 · EST 2:12 · EST 2:15 · EST 4:3 · EST 8:17 · EST 9:1 · EST 9:26 · JOB 4:5 · JOB 5:19 · ECC 8:14 · ECC 8:14 · ECC 12:1 · SNG 2:12 · EZK 7:12 · JON 3:6 · MIC 1:9
Intense | verb qal, verb hif
Collocation: נגע אֶל־שָׁמַיִם · נגע עַד לַשָּׁמַיִם
to reach up to heaven > to greatly increase in intensity literally: to reach up to heaven; hence: = process by which an event undergoes an extreme increase in intensity
Low | Impact | verb hif | ≈ הרס · שׁחח · שׁפל
to bring down literally: to reach (the ground); hence: = causative action by which deities cause a high building to be completely destroyed until only rubble remains; ≈ associated with total humiliation
Possess | verb hif
Collocation: יָד נגע
to be able to afford literally: (one's) hand touches (a certain amount); hence: = state in which one has enough financial means to purchase something
Happen | verb qal
to follow literally: to touch; hence: = process by which one event follows directly after the other ◄ as if they were touching each other
Engage | verb hif
to attain literally: to touch; hence: = process by which humans attain a certain position
Engage | verb hif
to reach literally: to touch; hence: = action by which humans persist in a certain condition until a certain moment
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
נָגַע 150 vb. touch, reach, strike Qal
touch
of י׳ touching earth, mountains, etc.
nearly = strike, pass. stricken
touch = harm
reach, extend to
Niph. be stricken, defeated (in battle), i.e. feign to be so
Pi. strike (with leprosy, 2 acc.)
Pu. be stricken by diseases
Hiph. cause to touch; reach, approach, arrive
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