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# פָּגַשׁ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6298

**meet** — used 14 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

meet [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6298/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

פָּגַשׁ: vb. meet, encounter [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6298/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. meet, encounter (syn. פָּגַע);— Pf. 1 s. פָּגָ֑שְׁתִּי Gn 33:8; 3 pl. consec. וּפָֽגְשׁוּ Is 34:14; Impf. 3 ms. sf. יִפְֿגָֽשְׁךָ֫ Gn 32:18 (Gi; Baer יִפְגָֽשְׁךָ֫; van d. H. יִֽפְגָּֽשְׁךָ֫), וַיִּפְגְּשֵׁהוּ Ex 4:24, 27; 3 fs. וַתִּפְגֹשׁ 1 S 25:20 (read prob. וַתִּפְגֹּשׁ Ges§ 47 k, cf. van d. H.), etc.; Inf. abs. פָּגוֹש Pr 17:12; cstr. פְּגשׁ Je 41:6;—meet, c. acc. Gn 33:8 1 S 25:20 Is 34:14 Je 41:6, so c. sf. Gn 32:18 Ex 4:24, 27 2 S 2:13; meet, encounter, of bear, c. ב pers. Pr 17:12, of י׳ (like a bear) Ho 13:8 (c. sf. pers.). meet together, each other, Pf. 3 pl. נִפְגָּ֑שׁוּ Pr 22:2; 29:13, fig. of חֶסֶד וֶאֱמֶת ψ 85:11. intens. Impf. 3 mpl. יְפַגְּשׁוּ חֹשֶׁךְ Jb 5:14 they keep encountering darkness in the daytime.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 14 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: he (3); they meet one another (3); I (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 85:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.85.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.85.11/#tree)

חֶֽסֶד־וֶאֱמֶ֥ת נִפְגָּ֑שׁוּ צֶ֖דֶק וְשָׁל֣וֹם נָשָֽׁקוּ׃

*Word for word:* covenant.loyalty and faithfulness they.meet.one.another righteousness and peace they.kiss

*JPS 1917:* Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other.

[Proverbs 22:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.22.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.22.2/#tree)

עָשִׁ֣יר וָרָ֣שׁ נִפְגָּ֑שׁוּ עֹשֵׂ֖ה כֻלָּ֣ם יְהוָֽה׃

*Word for word:* \[the\].rich and.\[the\] poor they.meet.one.another \[is.the\].maker all.of.them their Yahweh

*JPS 1917:* The rich and the poor meet together — the LORD is the maker of them all.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6298.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6298/): 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).