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# נָכֵה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5223

**smitten** — used 3 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

smitten [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5223/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נָכֵה: adj. smitten, stricken [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5223/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj. smitten, stricken (cf. \[נָכָא\]);—only cstr.: נְכֵה רַגְלַיִם 2 S 4:4; 9:3 crippled of feet; נְכֵה־רוּחַ Is 66:2 contrite of spirit (+ עָנִי).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 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: stricken (2); a \[person\] stricken (1).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 66:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.66.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.66.2/#tree)

וְאֶת־כָּל־אֵ֙לֶּה֙ יָדִ֣י עָשָׂ֔תָה וַיִּהְי֥וּ כָל־אֵ֖לֶּה נְאֻם־יְהוָ֑ה וְאֶל־זֶ֣ה אַבִּ֔יט אֶל־עָנִי֙ וּנְכֵה־ר֔וּחַ וְחָרֵ֖ד עַל־דְּבָרִֽי׃

*Word for word:* and (et) all these.\[things\] hand my it.made and they.were all these.\[things\] the.utterance of.Yahweh and to this.one I.will.look to an.afflicted.\[person\] and a.\[person\].stricken of.spirit and a.\[person\].trembling on word my

*JPS 1917:* For all these things hath My hand made, and so all these things came to be, saith the LORD; but on this man will I look, even on him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at My word.

[2 Samuel 9:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.9.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.9.3/#tree)

וַיֹּ֣אמֶר הַמֶּ֗לֶךְ הַאֶ֨פֶס ע֥וֹד אִישׁ֙ לְבֵ֣ית שָׁא֔וּל וְאֶעֱשֶׂ֥ה עִמּ֖וֹ חֶ֣סֶד אֱלֹהִ֑ים וַיֹּ֤אמֶר צִיבָא֙ אֶל־הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ ע֛וֹד בֵּ֥ן לִיהוֹנָתָ֖ן נְכֵ֥ה רַגְלָֽיִם׃

*Word for word:* and he.said the king \[is\].there not? still anyone of the.house of.Saul so that.I.may.do with him the.covenant.loyalty of.God and he.said Ziba to the king still a.son of Jonathan stricken of.both.feet

*JPS 1917:* And the king said: 'Is there not yet any of the house of Saul, that I may show the kindness of God unto him?' And Ziba said unto the king: 'Jonathan hath yet a son, who is lame on his feet.'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5223.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5223/): 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).