Words the Bible translates as strike
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 12 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- nakhahנָכָהto deliver a blow: to strike someone or something, whether a single hit, a fatal stroke, a battlefield rout, or an affliction sent from God
- patassōπατάσσωto land a single decisive blow: to strike someone down, whether with a weapon, with the hand, or by an act of judgment
- taqaתָּקַעto strike or clap the hand, either as a binding pledge of surety or as applause
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- to drive or thrust something into a surface or a body with a sharp, forceful blow
- to blow a trumpet or ram's horn by giving it a sharp burst of breath
- to pitch a tent by driving its stakes into the ground
- tuptōτύπτωto strike or beat: to hit someone with a blow, often blow after blow
- nagaphנָגַףto hit something hard enough to damage it: a collision, whether an animal against an animal, a foot against a stone, an army broken in defeat, or God striking with plague.
- paiōπαίωto strikenot studied yet
- proskoptōπροσκόπτωto strike against something physically: to dash the foot against an obstacle and stumble, or for a force to beat violently upon a thing.
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- to be tripped up spiritually: to take offense at something, be repelled by it, and so reject it and fall.
- plēssōπλήσσωto strikenot studied yet
- derōδέρωto beat up: to strike a person hard, thrashing or flogging them with repeated blows
- chalaōχαλάωto let down: to lower something on a slackening rope or by hand, so it descends at the pace of whoever is holding it
- saphaqסָפַקto strike sharply with the hand: to clap the palms together, slap the thigh, or land a blow
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- to be enough: to go far enough to cover what is needed
- prosrēgnumiπροσρήγνυμιto strikenot studied yet
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