To fall on
פָּגַעStrong’s H6293paga (pa-ga)
Appears in 43 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Paga is the Hebrew word usually translated “it touches”, “fell” and “fall”. It appears in 43 verses of the Old Testament.
“And he communed with them, saying, If it be your mind that I should bury my dead out of my sight; hear me, and intreat for me to Ephron the son of Zohar,”
Meaning
- To encounter, meet, reach, entreat, make intercession(Qal) · (Hiphil)
How it's translated
- and it touches 7
- and he fell 4
- and fall 3
- and they met 2
- when meets he 2
- you entreat 2
- fall 2
- and entreat 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Joshua 8
- 1 Kings 6
- Isaiah 5
- Jeremiah 4
- Genesis 3
- Exodus 3
13 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 28:11And he lighted upon a certain place, and tarried there all night, because the sun was set; and he took of the stones of that place, and put them for his pillows, and lay down in that place to sleep.
- Genesis 32:1And Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him.
- Exodus 5:3And they said, The God of the Hebrews hath met with us: let us go, we pray thee, three days’ journey into the desert, and sacrifice unto the LORD our God; lest he fall upon us with pestilence, or with the sword.
- Exodus 5:20And they met Moses and Aaron, who stood in the way, as they came forth from Pharaoh:
- Exodus 23:4If thou meet thine enemy’s ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again.
- Numbers 35:19The revenger of blood himself shall slay the murderer: when he meeteth him, he shall slay him.
All 43 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
פָּגַע paga · to fall on
1) to encounter, meet, reach, entreat, make intercession 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to meet, light upon, join 1a2) to meet (of kindness) 1a3) to encounter, fall upon (of hostility) 1a4) to encounter, entreat (of request) 1a5) to strike, touch (of boundary) 1b) (Hiphil) 1b1) to cause to light upon 1b2) to cause to entreat 1b3) to make entreaty, interpose 1b4) to make attack 1b5) to reach the mark
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “fell” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
FELL, adjective
- Cruel; barbarous; inhuman.
- Fierce; savage; ravenous; bloody.
All definitions and other forms of “fell”
FELL, noun
[Latin pellis.]
A skin or hide of a beast; used chiefly in composition, as wool-fell.
FELL, noun
A barren or stony hill. [Local.]
FELL, verb transitive
To cause to fall; to prostrate; to bring to the ground, either by cutting, as to fell trees, or by striking, as to fell an ox.
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.