Quick Definition
to meet
Strong's Definition
to come in contact with, whether by accident or violence; figuratively, to concur
Derivation: a primitive root;
KJV Usage: meet (with, together).
TWOT Reference: 1733
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
פָּגַשׁ (pa.gash) — to meet. 1) to meet, join, encounter 1a) (Qal) to meet, encounter 1b) (Niphal) to meet together, meet each other 1c) (Piel) to meet, encounter
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
verb
Meet | verb qal
to meet, to run into, to find, to come across, to come upon = process by which humans, animals, or deities come upon other humans or animals while travelling from one location to another, either or not expectedly; these encounters may be peaceful or result in aggression depending on the nature or intentions of one or both parties
GEN 32:18 · GEN 33:8 · EXO 4:24 · EXO 4:27 · 1SA 25:20 · 2SA 2:13 · PRO 17:12 · JER 41:6 · HOS 13:8
Space | Associate | verb qal
to live alongside (someone else) literally: to meet; hence: = process by which humans share a space with other humans where they have certain interests in common and may run into each other occasionally; ≈ used figuratively for animals only
Space | Associate | verb nif
to live alongside one another literally: to meet one another; hence: = process by which humans share the same space where they have certain interests in common and may run into each other occasionally
Happen | verb pi
to encounter literally: to meet with an event; hence: = process by which humans undergo an event ◄ as if it where another human they met with on the road
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
[פָּגַשׁ] vb. meet, encounter Qal meet
Niph. meet together, each other
Pi. intens. they keep encountering darkness in the daytime.
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