# H5221 נָכָה

נָכָה (nâkâh), Strong’s H5221: to strike (lightly or severely, literally or figuratively) KJV: beat, cast forth, clap, give (wounds), [idiom] go forward, [idiom] indeed, kill, make…. Occurs 501 times.

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*nâkâh* — to strike (lightly or severely, literally or figuratively)

KJV: beat, cast forth, clap, give (wounds), [idiom] go forward, [idiom] indeed, kill, make…

Occurs 501 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- [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

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 4:15](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/4?v=15) — The LORD said to him, “Therefore whoever slays Cain, vengeance will be taken on him sevenfold.” The LORD appointed a…
- [Genesis 8:21](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/8?v=21) — The LORD smelled the pleasant aroma. The LORD said in his heart, “I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s…
- [Genesis 14:5](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/14?v=5) — In the fourteenth year Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him came and struck the Rephaim in Ashteroth Karnaim…
- [Genesis 14:7](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/14?v=7) — They returned, and came to En Mishpat (also called Kadesh), and struck all the country of the Amalekites, and also the…
- [Genesis 14:15](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/14?v=15) — He divided himself against them by night, he and his servants, and struck them, and pursued them to Hobah, which is on…
- [Genesis 14:17](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/14?v=17) — The king of Sodom went out to meet him after his return from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with…
- [Genesis 19:11](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/19?v=11) — They struck the men who were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great, so that they wearied…
- [Genesis 32:9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/32?v=9) — He said, “If Esau comes to the one company, and strikes it, then the company which is left will escape.”
- [Genesis 32:12](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/32?v=12) — 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…
- [Genesis 34:30](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/34?v=30) — Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have troubled me, to make me odious to the inhabitants of the land, among the…