Original Language Studio
1 Kings 14:15
“For the Lord shall smite Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water, and he shall root up Israel out of this good land, which he gave to their fathers, and shall scatter them beyond the river, because they have made their groves, provoking the Lord to anger.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
H5221 · Hebrew
- Definition
- to strike (lightly or severely, literally or figuratively)
- Derivation
- a primitive root;
- KJV renderings
- beat, cast forth, clap, give (wounds), [idiom] go forward, [idiom] indeed, kill, make (slaughter), murderer, punish, slaughter, slay(-er, -ing), smite(-r, -ing), strike, be stricken, (give) stripes, [idiom] surely, wound.
- Grammar
- וְ — conjunction
- הִכָּ֨ה — verb Hiphil, sequential perfect, 3rd person, masculine, singular
- Usage
- Occurs 502 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 4:15Genesis 8:21Genesis 14:5Genesis 14:7Genesis 14:17
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read נָכָה here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.