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To touch

נָגַעStrong’s H5060

naga (na-ga)

Appears in 142 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Naga is the Hebrew word usually translated “touches”, “touch” and “touching”. It appears in 142 verses of the Old Testament.

“And as I was considering, behold, an he goat came from the west on the face of the whole earth, and touched not the ground: and the goat had a notable horn between his eyes.”
Daniel 8:5 KJV
Meaning
  1. To touch, reach, strike(Qal) · (Niphal) to be stricken, be defeated · (Piel) to strike · (Pual) to be stricken (by disease) · (Hiphil) to cause to touch, reach, approach, arrive
How it's translated
  • touches 14
  • he will touch 10
  • touching 9
  • and he touched 7
  • it will touch 7
  • you touch 5
  • to touch 4
  • who touches 4

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Leviticus 28
  • Numbers 9
  • Esther 9
  • Isaiah 9
  • Genesis 8
  • Job 8

33 books in all.

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Explore in Scripture
All 142 verses, by book
Deuteronomy 1
14:8
Joshua 2
8:159:19
Ruth 1
2:9
1 Samuel 3
6:910:2614:9
2 Samuel 3
5:814:1023:7
1 Kings 3
6:2719:519:7
2 Kings 2
13:2115:5
1 Chronicles 1
16:22
2 Chronicles 4
3:113:1226:2028:9
Ezra 1
3:1
Nehemiah 1
7:73
Proverbs 1
6:29
Ecclesiastes 2
8:1412:1
Song of Solomon 1
2:12
Lamentations 3
2:24:144:15
Hosea 1
4:2
Amos 1
9:5
Jonah 1
3:6
Micah 1
1:9
Haggai 2
2:122:13
Zechariah 2
2:814:5
Hebrew dictionary

נָגַע naga · 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)

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “touch” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

TOUCH, verb transitive

tuch. [Latin tango, originally tago, [our vulgar tag.] preterit tense tetigi, participle passive tactus.]

  1. To come in contact with; to hit or strike against.“He touched the hollow of his thigh” Genesis 32:25“Esther drew near, and touched the top of the scepter” Esther 5:2
  2. To perceive by the sense of feeling.
  3. To come to; to reach; to attain to.
  4. To try, as gold with a stone.
All definitions and other forms of “touch”
  1. To relate to; to concern.
  2. To handle slightly.
  3. To meddle with.
  4. To affect.
  5. To move; to soften; to melt.
  6. To mark or delineate slightly.
  7. To infect; as men touched with pestilent diseases. [Little used.]
  8. To make an impression on.
  9. To strike, as an instrument of music; to play on.
  10. To influence by impulse; to impel forcibly.
  11. To treat slightly.
  12. To afflict or distress. Genesis 26:29

TOUCH, verb intransitive

tuch. To be in contact with; to be in a state of junction, so that no space is between. Two spheres touch only at points.

  1. To fasten on; to take effect on.
  2. To treat of slightly in discourse.
  3. In the sense of touch at. [Little used.]

TOUCH, noun

tuch. Contact; the hitting of two bodies; the junction of two bodies at the surface, so that there is no space between them. The mimosa shrinks at the slightest touch

  1. The sense of feeling; one of the five senses.
  2. The act of touching.
  3. The state of being touched.
  4. Examination by a stone.
  5. Test; that by which any thing is examined.
  6. Proof; tried qualities.
  7. Single act of a pencil on a picture.
  8. Feature; lineament.
  9. Act of the hand on a musical instrument.
  10. Power of exciting the affections.
  11. Something of passion of affection.
  12. Particular application of any thing to a person.
  13. A stroke; as a touch of raillery; a satiric touch
  14. Animadversion; censure; reproof.
  15. Exact performance of agreement.
  16. A small quantity intermixed.
  17. A hint; suggestion; slight notice.
  18. A cant word for a slight essay.
  19. In music, the resistance of the keys of an instrument to the fingers; as a heavy touch or light touch
  20. In music, an organ is said to have a good touch or stop, when the keys close well.
  21. In ship-building, touch is the broadest part of a plank worked top and butt; or the middle of a plank worked anchor-stock fashion; also, the angles of the stern timbers at the counters.

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.