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To strike

נָקַףStrong’s H5362

naqaph (na-qaph)

Appears in 19 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Naqaph is the Hebrew word usually translated “surrounding”, “round off” and “encircle”. It appears in 19 verses of the Old Testament.

“Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard.”
Leviticus 19:27 KJV
Meaning
  1. To strike, strike off(Piel) to strike off skin
  2. To go around, compass, round(Qal) to go around · (Hiphil)
How it's translated
  • surrounding 2
  • you will round off 1
  • you will encircle 1
  • it encircled 1
  • and they surrounded 1
  • and you will surround 1
  • and they will surround 1
  • they had gone round 1

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

Where it's used most
  • Psalms 4
  • Job 3
  • Isaiah 3
  • Joshua 2
  • 2 Kings 2
  • 2 Chronicles 2

9 books in all.

Related words
Explore in Scripture
All 19 verses, by book
Leviticus 1
19:27
Joshua 2
6:36:11
1 Kings 1
7:24
2 Kings 2
6:1411:8
2 Chronicles 2
4:323:7
Lamentations 1
3:5
Hebrew dictionary

נָקַף naqaph · to strike

1) to strike, strike off 1a) (Piel) to strike off skin Aramaic equivalent: ne.qash (נְקַשׁ "to knock" H5368)

נָקַף naqaph · to surround

1) to go around, compass, round 1a) (Qal) to go around 1b) (Hiphil) 1b1) to go around, surround, encompass, enclose 1b2) to make the round, complete the circuit 1b3) to make round, round off

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.]

  1. 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.
  2. 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
  3. 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.
  4. To thrust in; to cause to enter or penetrate; as, a tree strikes its root deep.
All definitions and other forms of “strike”
  1. 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
  2. To cause to sound; to notify by sound; as, the clock strikes twelve; the drums strike up a march.
  3. To run upon; to be stranded.
  4. To pass with a quick or strong effect; to dart; to penetrate.
  5. To lower a flag or colors in token of respect, or to signify a surrender of the ship to an enemy.
  6. To break forth; as, to strike into reputation. [Not in use.]

STRIKE, noun

  1. 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.
  2. A bushel; four pecks. [Local.]
  3. 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.

Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.