Target
מִפְגָּעStrong’s H4645miphga (miph-ga)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Miphga is the Hebrew word usually translated “target”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“I have sinned; what shall I do unto thee, O thou preserver of men? why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, so that I am a burden to myself?”
Meaning
- Thing hit, mark, target, object of assault
How it's translated
- to a target 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 1
1 book in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
מִפְגָּע miphga · target
thing hit, mark, target, object of assault
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “target” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
T'ARGET, noun
- A shield or buckler of a small kind, used as a defensive weapon in war.
- A mark for the artillery to fire at in their practice.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.