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1 Kings 8:33

“When thy people Israel be smitten down before the enemy, because they have sinned against thee, and shall turn again to thee, and confess thy name, and pray, and make supplication unto thee in this house:” (KJV)

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Lexical meaning

נָגַףnâgaph · naw-gaf'
H5062 · Hebrew
Definition
to push, gore, defeat, stub (the toe), inflict (a disease)
Derivation
a primitive root;
KJV renderings
beat, dash, hurt, plague, slay, smite (down), strike, stumble, [idiom] surely, put to the worse.
Grammar
  • בְּֽ — preposition
  • הִנָּגֵ֞ף — verb Niphal, infinitive construct
Code HR/VNc
Usage
Occurs 49 times in the Hebrew Bible.Exodus 7:27Exodus 12:23Exodus 12:23Exodus 12:27Exodus 21:22

Theological interpretation (AI)

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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.