Quick Definition
to strike
Strong's Definition
to push, gore, defeat, stub (the toe), inflict (a disease)
Derivation: a primitive root;
KJV Usage: beat, dash, hurt, plague, slay, smite (down), strike, stumble, [idiom] surely, put to the worse.
TWOT Reference: 1294
Outline of Biblical Usage
Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents
This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
נָגַף (na.gaph) — to strike. 1) to strike, smite 1a) (Qal) to strike, smite 1b) (Niphal) to be stricken, be smitten 1c) (Hithpael) to stumble
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
verb · נֶגֶף · מַגֵּפָה
Impact | verb qal, verb hit | ≠ בֶּטַח
Collocation: נגף רֶגֶל · נגף רַגְלַיִם
to hurt one's foot (on something) > to hurt oneself, to stumble = process by which a human's foot or both feet come in forcible contact with a stone or other object while travelling, ► which may result in stumbling and injury; ≈ usually used in a figurative way to denote sustaining any kind of hardship in life
Impact | verb qal, verb nif
to strike, to strike down, to defeat = causative action by which humans or animals deliver a heavy blow to other humans or animals, ► resulting in serious harm or injury, and, in the case of an army, defeat
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
נָגַף vb. strike, smite Qal strike, smite
Niph. be smitten
Hithp. = stumble
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