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# נָכָא

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5217

**smite** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

smite [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5217/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נָכָא: vb. smite, scourge [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5217/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. smite, scourge (rare Aramaizing form of נָכָה);—only Pf. 3 pl. נִכְּאוּ מִן־הָאָרֶץ Jb 30:8 they are scourged out of the land.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: they have been scourged (1).

## In the verses

[Job 30:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.30.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.30.8/#tree)

בְּֽנֵי־נָ֭בָל גַּם־בְּנֵ֣י בְלִי־שֵׁ֑ם נִ֝כְּא֗וּ מִן־הָאָֽרֶץ׃

*Word for word:* sons of.a.fool also sons of.not a.name they.have.been.scourged from the land

*JPS 1917:* They are children of churls, yea, children of ignoble men; they were scourged out of the land.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5217.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5217/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).