Original Language Studio
1 Samuel 27:9
“And David smote the land, and left neither man nor woman alive, and took away the sheep, and the oxen, and the asses, and the camels, and the apparel, and returned, and came to Achish.” (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
- הִכָּ֤ה — verb Hiphil, perfect, 3rd person, masculine, singular
- Usage
- Occurs 502 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 4:15Genesis 8:21Genesis 14:5Genesis 14:7Genesis 14:15
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.