{
  "type": "word",
  "id": "H5221",
  "lemma": "נָכָה",
  "transliteration": "nâkâh",
  "definition": "to strike (lightly or severely, literally or figuratively)",
  "kjv": "beat, cast forth, clap, give (wounds), [idiom] go forward, [idiom] indeed, kill, make…",
  "occurrences": 501,
  "language": "Hebrew",
  "brownDriverBriggs": [
    "[נָכָה] 501 vb. smite (not in Qal)",
    "Niph. and he shall be smitten [struck by weapon in battle] and die",
    "Pu. both be smitten down by the hail",
    "Hiph.",
    "a. lit., smite (with a single, non-fatal, blow), strike",
    "b. smite repeatedly, beat a man",
    "c. and they clapped hands (in applause)",
    "d. give a thrust (with fork) into pot; strike roots",
    "e. rarely smite (in battle) so as (merely) to wound",
    "f. smite, of sun",
    "2. Smite fatally",
    "3. Smite = attack, attack and destroy a company",
    "4. Of God",
    "a. smite with a plague, disease, etc.",
    "b. smite = chastise, or send judgment upon",
    "c. of God’s destroying palaces",
    "Hoph. be smitten"
  ],
  "whereItOccurs": [
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 4:15",
      "text": "The LORD said to him, “Therefore whoever slays Cain, vengeance will be taken on him sevenfold.” The LORD appointed a…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/4?v=15"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 8:21",
      "text": "The LORD smelled the pleasant aroma. The LORD said in his heart, “I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/8?v=21"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 14:5",
      "text": "In the fourteenth year Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him came and struck the Rephaim in Ashteroth Karnaim…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/14?v=5"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 14:7",
      "text": "They returned, and came to En Mishpat (also called Kadesh), and struck all the country of the Amalekites, and also the…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/14?v=7"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 14:15",
      "text": "He divided himself against them by night, he and his servants, and struck them, and pursued them to Hobah, which is on…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/14?v=15"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 14:17",
      "text": "The king of Sodom went out to meet him after his return from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/14?v=17"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 19:11",
      "text": "They struck the men who were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great, so that they wearied…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/19?v=11"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 32:9",
      "text": "He said, “If Esau comes to the one company, and strikes it, then the company which is left will escape.”",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/32?v=9"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 32:12",
      "text": "Please deliver me from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau; for I fear him, lest he come and strike me and…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/32?v=12"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 34:30",
      "text": "Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have troubled me, to make me odious to the inhabitants of the land, among the…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/34?v=30"
    }
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