Crippled
נָכֵהStrong’s H5223nakheh (na-kheh)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Nakheh is the Hebrew word usually translated “stricken of”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“And Jonathan, Saul’s son, had a son that was lame of his feet. He was five years old when the tidings came of Saul and Jonathan out of Jezreel, and his nurse took him up, and fled: and it came to pass, as she made haste to flee, that he fell, and became lame. And his name was Mephibosheth.”
Meaning
- Stricken, smitten
How it's translated
- stricken of 2
- and a stricken of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 2 Samuel 2
- Isaiah 1
2 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- 2 Samuel 9:3And the king said, Is there not yet any of the house of Saul, that I may shew the kindness of God unto him? And Ziba said unto the king, Jonathan hath yet a son, which is lame on his feet.
- Isaiah 66:2For all those things hath mine hand made, and all those things have been, saith the LORD: but to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word.
Hebrew dictionary
נָכֵה nakheh · crippled
stricken, smitten
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “crippled” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
CRIPPLED, participle passive
Lamed; rendered impotent in the limbs; disabled.
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.