נָגַעnâgaʻ
touch, reach, strike
Pronunciation: naw-gah' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H5060
Meanings
Qal: active, passive (Genesis 32:33; Judges 20:41; Genesis 26:29)
1.
a. touch (Genesis 3:3; Genesis 32:25; Genesis 32:33)
b. of ׳ י touching earth, mountains, etc. (Amos 9:5; Psalms 104:32; Psalms 144:5)
2. nearly = strike, passive stricken (Psalms 73:14; Isaiah 53:4; Job 1:19)
3. touch, = harm (Genesis 26:11; Joshua 9:19; 2 Samuel 14:10)
4. reach, extend to (2 Samuel 5:8; Isaiah 16:8; Jeremiah 48:32)
Niph`al: be stricken, defeated (Joshua 8:15)
Pi`el: strike (2 Chronicles 26:20; 2 Kings 15:5; Genesis 12:17)
Pu`al: be sticken (2 Samuel 7:14; Psalms 73:5)
Hiph`il: cause to touch; reach, approach, arrive (Isaiah 25:12; Esther 4:14; Ezekiel 13:14)
1. cause to touch, apply (Exodus 12:22; Isaiah 25:5; Isaiah 25:12)
2. reach, extend (Genesis 28:12; Zechariah 14:5; Isaiah 8:8)
3. approach, of time (Ecclesiastes 12:1; Song of Solomon 2:12; Ezekiel 7:12)
4. befall, of fate or lot, = (Esther 9:26; Ecclesiastes 8:14; Psalms 32:6)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 150 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 3:3 “It’s only the fruit from the tree in the middle of the garden that we are not allowed to eat. God said, ‘You must not eat it or even touch it; if you do, you will die.’”
- Genesis 12:17 But the Lord sent terrible plagues upon Pharaoh and his household because of Sarai, Abram’s wife.
- Genesis 20:6 In the dream God responded, “Yes, I know you are innocent. That’s why I kept you from sinning against me, and why I did not let you touch her.
- Genesis 26:11 Then Abimelech issued a public proclamation: “Anyone who touches this man or his wife will be put to death!”
- Genesis 26:29 Swear that you will not harm us, just as we have never troubled you. We have always treated you well, and we sent you away from us in peace. And now look how the Lord has blessed you!”
- Genesis 28:12 As he slept, he dreamed of a stairway that reached from the earth up to heaven. And he saw the angels of God going up and down the stairway.
See every passage
- Genesis 3:3, 12:17, 20:6, 26:11, 26:29, 28:12, 32:25, 32:32
- Exodus 4:25, 12:22, 19:12, 19:13, 29:37, 30:29
- Leviticus 5:2, 5:3, 5:7, 6:18, 6:27, 7:19, 7:21, 11:8, 11:24, 11:26, 11:27, 11:31, 11:36, 11:39, 12:4, 15:5, 15:7, 15:10, 15:11, 15:12, 15:19, 15:21, 15:22, 15:23, 15:27, 22:4, 22:5, 22:6
- Numbers 4:15, 16:26, 19:11, 19:13, 19:16, 19:18, 19:21, 19:22, 31:19
- Deuteronomy 14:8
- Joshua 8:15, 9:19
- Judges 6:21, 20:34, 20:41
- Ruth 2:9
- 1 Samuel 6:9, 10:26, 14:9
- 2 Samuel 5:8, 14:10, 23:7
- 1 Kings 6:27, 19:5, 19:7
- 2 Kings 13:21, 15:5
- 1 Chronicles 16:22
- 2 Chronicles 3:11, 3:12, 26:20, 28:9
- Ezra 3:1
- Nehemiah 7:73
- Esther 2:12, 2:15, 4:3, 4:14, 5:2, 6:14, 8:17, 9:1, 9:26
- Job 1:11, 1:19, 2:5, 4:5, 5:19, 6:7, 19:21, 20:6
- Psalms 32:6, 73:5, 73:14, 88:3, 104:32, 105:15, 107:18, 144:5
- Proverbs 6:29
- Ecclesiastes 8:14, 12:1
- Song of Solomon 2:12
- Isaiah 5:8, 6:7, 8:8, 16:8, 25:12, 26:5, 30:4, 52:11, 53:4
- Jeremiah 1:9, 4:10, 4:18, 12:14, 48:32, 51:9
- Lamentations 2:2, 4:14, 4:15
- Ezekiel 7:12, 13:14, 17:10
- Daniel 8:5, 8:7, 8:18, 9:21, 10:10, 10:16, 10:18, 12:12
- Hosea 4:2
- Amos 9:5
- Jonah 3:6
- Micah 1:9
- Haggai 2:12, 2:13
- Zechariah 2:8, 14:5
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).