Words the Bible translates as reach
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 8 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- nagaנָגַעto make contact: for one thing to reach another and touch it, whether lightly, harmfully, or all the way to a place or time
- nasagנָשַׂגto overtake or reach something that was ahead of or beyond you: to close the gap and arrive at it
- pagaפָּגַעof a border or boundary: to reach, touch, or run up to a place
+3 more meanings
- to meet or come upon someone or something, whether by chance or on purpose
- to fall upon someone: to attack, strike down, or kill
- to approach someone with a request: to entreat, urge, plead, or intercede
- phthanōφθάνωto get all the way there: to reach a place, a person, or a goal, arriving rather than merely drawing close.
- katantaōκαταντάωto arrive at an endpoint: to reach a place, or to reach a goal or condition one has been moving toward
- aphikneomaiἀφικνέομαιto reachnot studied yet
- metaמְטָאto reach: to get all the way to the thing something was heading for, whether a height, a place, a person, or an appointed time.
- ephikneomaiἐφικνέομαιto reachnot studied yet
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