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Exodus 5:14

“And the officers of the children of Israel, which Pharaoh’s taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, and demanded, Wherefore have ye not fulfilled your task in making brick both yesterday and to day, as heretofore?” (KJV)

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Lexical meaning

נָכָהnâkâh · naw-kaw'
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
יֻּכּ֗וּ — verb Hophal, sequential imperfect, 3rd person, masculine, plural
Code HC/VHw3mp
Usage: Occurs 502 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 4:15 Genesis 8:21 Genesis 14:5 Genesis 14:7 Genesis 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.

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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.