נָגַע
na.ga
“to touch”
Definition
properly, to touch, i.e. lay the hand upon (for any purpose; euphemistically, to lie with a woman); by implication, to reach (figuratively, to arrive, acquire); violently, to strike (punish, defeat, destroy, etc.)
a primitive root;
- to touch, reach, strike 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to touch 1a2) to strike 1a3) to reach, extend to 1a4) to be stricken 1a4a) stricken (participle) 1b) (Niphal) to be stricken, be defeated 1c) (Piel) to strike 1d) (Pual) to be stricken (by disease) 1e) (Hiphil) to cause to touch, reach, approach, arrive 1e1) to cause to touch, apply 1e2) to reach, extend, attain, arrive, come 1e3) to approach (of time) 1e4) to befall (of fate)
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logos (G3056)
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Grammar & Morphology
Verb
H:V
Hebrew Verb
Occurrences
נָגַע appears 135 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
‘Do not touch My anointed ones!Do no harm to My prophets!’
There is a futility that is done on the earth: There are righteous men who get what the actions of the wicked deserve, and there are wicked men who get what the actions of the righteous deserve. I say that this too is futile.
So Haggai asked, “If one who is defiled by contact with a corpse touches any of these, does it become defiled?”“Yes, it becomes defiled,” the priests answered.
My soul refuses to touch them;they are loathsome food to me.
the man who touches any of these will remain unclean until evening. He must not eat from the sacred offerings unless he has bathed himself with water.
Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.