nagaph (to strike)

Meaning

To strike, smite(Qal) to strike, smite · (Niphal) to be stricken, be smitten · (Hithpael) to stumble

How it's translated

defeated 4
and it was defeated 4
and he struck 3
and they were defeated 3
about to strike 2
to strike 2
it will strike 2
you will be defeated 2

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

Where it's used most

2 Chronicles 8
Exodus 6
1 Samuel 6
2 Samuel 5
Judges 4
Deuteronomy 3

17 books in all.

Related words

Explore in Scripture

Zechariah 14:18In contextAnd if the family of Egypt go not up, and come not, that have no rain; there shall be the plague, wherewith the LORD will smite the heathen that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles.
Exodus 8:2And if thou refuse to let them go, behold, I will smite all thy borders with frogs:
Exodus 12:23For the LORD will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when he seeth the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side posts, the LORD will pass over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come in unto your houses to smite you.
Exodus 12:27That ye shall say, It is the sacrifice of the LORD’s passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he smote the Egyptians, and delivered our houses. And the people bowed the head and worshipped.
Exodus 21:22If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her, and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according as the woman’s husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine.
Exodus 21:35And if one man’s ox hurt another’s, that he die; then they shall sell the live ox, and divide the money of it; and the dead ox also they shall divide.

All 46 verses, by book

Exodus 6: 8:2 12:23 12:27 21:22 21:35 32:35
Leviticus 1: 26:17
Numbers 1: 14:42
Deuteronomy 3: 1:42 28:7 28:25
Joshua 1: 24:5
Judges 4: 20:32 20:35 20:36 20:39
1 Samuel 6: 4:2 4:3 4:10 7:10 25:38 26:10
2 Samuel 5: 2:17 10:15 10:19 12:15 18:7
1 Kings 1: 8:33
2 Kings 1: 14:12
1 Chronicles 2: 19:16 19:19
2 Chronicles 8: 6:24 13:15 13:20 14:12 20:22 21:14 21:18 25:22
Psalms 2: 89:23 91:12
Proverbs 1: 3:23
Isaiah 1: 19:22
Jeremiah 1: 13:16
Zechariah 2: 14:12 14:18

Hebrew dictionary

נָגַף nagaph · to strike

1) to strike, smite 1a) (Qal) to strike, smite 1b) (Niphal) to be stricken, be smitten 1c) (Hithpael) to stumble

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

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

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

STRIKE, verb transitive

preterit tense struck; participle passive struck and stricken; but struck is in the most common use. Strook is wholly obsolete. [G., to pass, move or ramble, to depart, to touch, to stroke, to glide or glance over, to lower or strike as sails, to curry; Latin, to sweep together, to spread, as a plaster, to play on a violin, to card, as wool, to strike or whip, as with a rod; a stroke, stripe or lash.]

To touch or hit with some force, either with the hand or an instrument; to give a blow to, either with the open hand, the fist, a stick, club or whip, or with a pointed instrument, or with a ball or an arrow discharged.
To dash; to throw with a quick motion.“They shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side-posts” Exodus 12:7
To stamp; to impress; to coin; as, to strike coin at the mint; to strike dollars or sovereigns; also, to print; as, to strike five hundred copies of a book.
To thrust in; to cause to enter or penetrate; as, a tree strikes its root deep.

All definitions and other forms of “strike”

To punish; to afflict; as smite is also used.“To punish the just is not good, nor to strike princes for equity” Proverbs 17:26
To cause to sound; to notify by sound; as, the clock strikes twelve; the drums strike up a march.
To run upon; to be stranded.
To pass with a quick or strong effect; to dart; to penetrate.
To lower a flag or colors in token of respect, or to signify a surrender of the ship to an enemy.
To break forth; as, to strike into reputation. [Not in use.]

STRIKE, noun

An instrument with a straight edge for leveling a measure of grain, salt and the like, for scraping off what is above the level of the top.
A bushel; four pecks. [Local.]
A measure of four bushels or half a quarter. [Local.]

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.