Original Language Studio
2 Chronicles 14:13
“And Asa and the people that were with him pursued them unto Gerar: and the Ethiopians were overthrown, that they could not recover themselves; for they were destroyed before the Lord, and before his host; and they carried away very much spoil.” (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
- וַ — conjunction
- יַּכּ֗וּ — verb Hiphil, sequential imperfect, 3rd person, masculine, plural
- 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.