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נָגַע

na.gato touchHow to read Hebrew
hebrewOld TestamentVerb150 occurrences33 books142 verses

Definition

a primitive root; properly, to touch, i.e. lay the hand upon (for any purpose; euphemistically, to lie with a woman); by implication, to reach (figuratively, to arrive, acquire); violently, to strike (punish, defeat, destroy, etc.)
Traditional renderings: beat, (× be able to) bring (down), cast, come (nigh), draw near (nigh), get up, happen, join, near, plague, reach (up), smite, strike, touch.

In the Greek Old Testament

How the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament renders נָגַע:

Usage patterns

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Occurrences

150 total
  1. Numbers 19:22יִגַּע־ · person touches; הַנֹּגַ֖עַת · who touches it
    Anything the unclean person touches will become unclean, and anyone who touches it will be unclean until evening.”
  2. Numbers 31:19נֹגֵ֣עַ · or touched
    All of you who have killed a person or touched the dead are to remain outside the camp for seven days. On the third day and the seventh day you are to purify both yourselves and your captives.
  3. Deuteronomy 14:8תִגָּֽעוּ׃ס · or touch
    …as well as the pig; though it has a divided hoof, it does not chew the cud. It is unclean for you. You must not eat its meat or touch its carcass.
  4. Joshua 8:15וַיִּנָּֽגְע֛וּ · let themselves be beaten back
    Joshua and all Israel let themselves be beaten back before them, and they fled toward the wilderness.
  5. Joshua 9:19לִנְגֹּ֥עַ · touch
    All the leaders answered, “We have sworn an oath to them by the LORD, the God of Israel, and now we cannot touch them.
  6. Judges 6:21וַיִּגַּ֥ע · and touched
    Then the angel of the LORD extended the tip of the staff that was in his hand and touched the meat and the unleavened bread. And fire flared from the rock and consumed the meat and the unleavened bread. Then the angel of the LORD vanished from his sight.
  7. Judges 20:34נֹגַ֥עַת · upon
    Then 10,000 select men from all Israel made a frontal assault against Gibeah, and the battle was fierce. But the Benjamites did not realize that disaster was upon them.
  8. Judges 20:41נָגְעָ֥ה · had come
    Then the men of Israel turned back on them, and the men of Benjamin were terrified when they realized that disaster had come upon them.
  9. Ruth 2:9נָגְעֵ֑ךְ · to touch you
    Let your eyes be on the field they are harvesting, and follow along after these girls. Indeed, I have ordered the young men not to touch you. And when you are thirsty, go and drink from the jars the young men have filled.”
  10. 1 Samuel 6:9נָ֣גְעָה · that punished
    …but keep watching it. If it goes up the road to its homeland, toward Beth-shemesh, it is the LORD who has brought on us this great disaster. But if it does not, then we will know that it was not His hand that punished us and that it happened by chance.”
  11. 1 Samuel 10:26נָגַ֥ע · had touched
    Saul also went to his home in Gibeah, and the men of valor whose hearts God had touched went with him.
  12. 1 Samuel 14:9הַגִּיעֵ֖נוּ · we come
    If they say, ‘Wait until we come to you,’ then we will stay where we are and will not go up to them.
  13. 2 Samuel 5:8וְיִגַּ֣ע · to reach
    On that day he said, “Whoever attacks the Jebusites must use the water shaft to reach the lame and blind who are despised by David.” That is why it is said, “The blind and the lame will never enter the palace.”
  14. 2 Samuel 14:10לָגַ֥עַת · trouble
    “If anyone speaks to you,” said the king, “bring him to me, and he will not trouble you again!”
  15. 2 Samuel 23:7יִגַּ֣ע · [who] touches
    The man who touches them must be armed with iron or with the shaft of a spear. The fire burns them to ashes in the place where they lie.”
  16. 1 Kings 6:27וַתִּגַּ֤ע · touched; נֹגַ֖עַת · touched; נֹגְעֹ֖ת · touched
    And he placed the cherubim inside the innermost room of the temple. Since their wings were spread out, the wing of the first cherub touched one wall, while the wing of the second cherub touched the other wall, and in the middle of the room their wingtips touched.
  17. 1 Kings 19:5נֹגֵ֣עַ · touched
    Then he lay down under the broom tree and fell asleep. Suddenly an angel touched him and said, “Get up and eat.”
  18. 1 Kings 19:7וַיִּגַּע־ · and touched
    A second time the angel of the LORD returned and touched him, saying, “Get up and eat, or the journey will be too much for you.”
  19. 2 Kings 13:21וַיִּגַּ֤ע · And as soon as [his body] touched
    Once, as the Israelites were burying a man, suddenly they saw a band of raiders, so they threw the man’s body into Elisha’s tomb. And as soon as his body touched the bones of Elisha, the man was revived and stood up on his feet.
  20. 2 Kings 15:5וַיְנַגַּ֨ע · afflicted
    And the LORD afflicted the king with leprosy until the day he died, so that he lived in a separate house while his son Jotham had charge of the palace and governed the people of the land.
  21. 1 Chronicles 16:22תִּגְּעוּ֙ · touch
    ‘Do not touch My anointed ones! Do no harm to My prophets!’
  22. 2 Chronicles 3:11מַגַּ֙עַת֙ · and touched; מַגִּ֕יעַ · and touched
    The total wingspan of the cherubim was twenty cubits. One wing of the first cherub was five cubits long and touched the wall of the temple, and its other wing was five cubits long and touched the wing of the other cherub.
  23. 2 Chronicles 3:12מַגִּ֖יעַ · and touched
    The wing of the second cherub also measured five cubits and touched the wall of the temple, while its other wing measured five cubits and touched the wing of the first cherub.
  24. 2 Chronicles 26:20נִגְּע֖וֹ · had afflicted him
    When Azariah the chief priest and all the priests turned to him and saw his leprous forehead, they rushed him out. Indeed, he himself hurried to get out, because the LORD had afflicted him.
  25. 2 Chronicles 28:9הִגִּֽיעַ׃ · [that] reaches up
    But a prophet of the LORD named Oded was there, and he went out to meet the army that returned to Samaria. “Look,” he said to them, “because of His wrath against Judah, the LORD, the God of your fathers, has delivered them into your hand. But you have slaughtered them in a rage that reaches up to heaven.
  26. Ezra 3:1וַיִּגַּע֙ · had settled
    By the seventh month, the Israelites had settled in their towns, and the people assembled as one man in Jerusalem.
  27. Nehemiah 7:73וַיִּגַּע֙
    So the priests, Levites, gatekeepers, singers, and temple servants, along with some of the people and the rest of the Israelites, settled in their own towns. And by the seventh month the Israelites had settled in their towns.
  28. Esther 2:12וּבְהַגִּ֡יעַ
    In the twelve months before her turn to go to King Xerxes, the harem regulation required each young woman to receive beauty treatments with oil of myrrh for six months, and then with perfumes and cosmetics for another six months.
  29. Esther 2:15וּבְהַגִּ֣יעַ
    Now Esther was the daughter of Abihail, the uncle from whom Mordecai had adopted her as his own daughter. And when it was her turn to go to the king, she did not ask for anything except what Hegai, the king’s trusted official in charge of the harem, had advised. And Esther found favor in the eyes of everyone who saw her.
  30. Esther 4:3מַגִּ֔יעַ · came
    In every province to which the king’s command and edict came, there was great mourning among the Jews. They fasted, wept, and lamented, and many lay in sackcloth and ashes.
  31. Esther 4:14הִגַּ֖עַתְּ · you have come
    For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance for the Jews will arise from another place, but you and your father’s house will perish. And who knows if perhaps you have come to the kingdom for such a time as this?”
  32. Esther 5:2וַתִּגַּ֖ע · and touched
    As soon as the king saw Queen Esther standing in the court, she found favor in his sight. The king extended the gold scepter in his hand toward Esther, and she approached and touched the tip of the scepter.
  33. Esther 6:14הִגִּ֑יעוּ · arrived
    While they were still speaking with Haman, the king’s eunuchs arrived and rushed him to the banquet that Esther had prepared.
  34. Esther 8:17מַגִּ֔יעַ · reached
    In every province and every city, wherever the king’s edict and decree reached, there was joy and gladness among the Jews, with feasting and celebrating. And many of the people of the land themselves became Jews, because the fear of the Jews had fallen upon them.
  35. Esther 9:1הִגִּ֧יעַ
    On the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month of Adar, the king’s command and edict were to be executed. On this day the enemies of the Jews had hoped to overpower them, but their plan was overturned and the Jews overpowered those who hated them.
  36. Esther 9:26הִגִּ֖יעַ
    Therefore these days are called Purim, from the word Pur. Because of all the instructions in this letter, and because of all they had seen and experienced,
  37. Job 1:11וְגַ֖ע · and strike
    But stretch out Your hand and strike all that he has, and he will surely curse You to Your face.”
  38. Job 1:19וַיִּגַּע֙ · and struck
    …when suddenly a mighty wind swept in from the desert and struck the four corners of the house. It collapsed on the young people and they are dead, and I alone have escaped to tell you!”
  39. Job 2:5וְגַ֥ע · and strike
    But stretch out Your hand and strike his flesh and bones, and he will surely curse You to Your face.”
  40. Job 4:5תִּגַּ֥ע · It strikes you
    But now trouble has come upon you, and you are weary. It strikes you, and you are dismayed.
  41. Job 5:19יִגַּ֖ע · will touch
    He will rescue you from six calamities; no harm will touch you in seven.
  42. Job 6:7לִנְגּ֣וֹעַ · to touch them
    My soul refuses to touch them; they are loathsome food to me.
  43. Job 19:21נָ֣גְעָה · has struck
    Have pity on me, my friends, have pity, for the hand of God has struck me.
  44. Job 20:6יַגִּֽיעַ׃ · touches
    Though his arrogance reaches the heavens, and his head touches the clouds,
  45. Psalm 32:6יַגִּֽיעוּ׃ · come near
    Therefore let all the godly pray to You while You may be found. Surely when great waters rise, they will not come near.
  46. Psalm 73:5יְנֻגָּֽעוּ׃ · afflicted
    They are free of the burdens others carry; they are not afflicted like other men.