פָּגַע
to meet
‘to meet’ is one of 11 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Stem
- Qal
- The basic, simple active stem — the plain form of the verb (“he wrote”). Here: ‘meet’
- Hiphil
- The causative active stem (“he caused / brought about”). Here: ‘cause to light upon’
Form
- Perfect
- A completed action or state — Hebrew marks aspect (completeness) more than strict tense (“he wrote”).
- Sequential Imperfect
- An imperfect with prefixed waw — the standard past-narrative form (waw-consecutive imperfect).
- Imperative
- A direct command (“write!”).
- Imperfect
- An incomplete, ongoing, or future action (“he will / would write”).
- Infinitive Construct
- A bound verbal noun, frequently with prepositions (“to write / in writing”).
- Sequential Perfect
- A perfect with prefixed waw continuing a preceding imperfect or command (waw-consecutive perfect).
- Participle Active
- A verbal adjective expressing ongoing or characteristic action (“writing / one who writes”).
- Jussive
- A third- or second-person volitional form expressing wish or command (“let him write”).
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Person
- 3rd Person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
- 2nd Person
- The one addressed (“you”).
- 1st Person
- The speaker (“I / we”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Common
- Either gender — not distinguished for this form.
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Every verse where H6293 appears in the Book of Exodus — 3 distinct verses. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Exodus
- Exodus 5:3 יִפְגָּעֵ֔/נוּ Qal impf 3ms + sfx pers 1cp They said, "The God of the Hebrews has met with us. Please let us go three days' journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to Yahweh, our God, lest he fall on us with pestilence, or with the sword."
- Exodus 5:20 וַֽ/יִּפְגְּעוּ֙ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp They met Moses and Aaron, who stood in the way, as they came forth from Pharaoh:
- Exodus 23:4 תִפְגַּ֞ע Qal impf 2ms "If you meet your enemy's ox or his donkey going astray, you shall surely bring it back to him again.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
At its core, פגע (pâgaʻ) means “to meet.” Translators differ — “reacheth” in the King James Version, then “met” (unfoldingWord Literal Text), as the renderings breakdown shows. It turns up in 43 verses across 13 books, a moderately common footprint. It first appears in Genesis 23:8. The verb spans 2 stems, from Qal to Hiphil. Dig into 43-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H6293 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 43
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 43 distinct verses.
- 13 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 13 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #796
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 796 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 43 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 43 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 31 verses · 72%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 8 verses · 19%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 4 verses · 9%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Reacheth 5×, Fall 4×, Fell 3×
- American Standard Version: Reached 8×, Fall 4×, He fell 3×
- Berean Standard Bible: Reached 3×, He struck down 2×, Intercede 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Met 9×, Attack 5×, And 3×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H6293 across 46 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 22 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H6293 across 46 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 27 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H6293 across 45 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 30 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H6293 across 56 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 21 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
10 senses and sub-senses in the full BDB
Hebrew verbs can shift meaning by stem (binyan): Qal is the basic action, Niphal is often passive or reflexive, Piel often intensifies or makes it factitive, and Hiphil is typically causative. The senses below are grouped under the stem BDB assigns to each.
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 10 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
Qal
- Pf. 3 ms. פ׳ 1 K 2:32 +, sf. וּפְגָעוֹ consec. Am 5:19, etc.; Impf. 3 ms. וַיִּפְגַּע Gn 28:11 +; 1 pl. נְפְגַּע Jb 21:15, etc.; Imv. ms. פְּגַע Ju 8:21 +; mpl. פִּגְעוּ Gn 23:8; Inf. cstr. לִפִגֹּעַ 1 S 22:17, sf. פִּגְעוֹ Nu 35:19, 21;— e.g. 1 Kings 2:32
- 1. meet, light upon, c. acc. pers. 1 S 10:5 Ex 5:20 (J), c. sf. pers. Am 5:19; פ׳ שׁוֹר Ex 23:4; c. ב pers. Gn 32:2 (E), Nu 35:19, 21 (P); c. ב loc. Gn 28:11 (E). e.g. 1 Samuel 10:5
- 2. meet, with kindness, c. acc. pers. Is 64:4 (subj. י׳), so 47:3 according to Ew De Di al.; CheHpt. אֶפְרַע (reading, with Du, אמר for אָדָם). e.g. Isaiah 64:4
- 3. encounter with hostility, fall upon c. ב pers. Jos 2:16 (JE), Ju 8:21; 15:12; 18:25 1 S 22:17, 18(×2) 2 S 1:15 1 K 2:25, 29, 31, 32, 34, 46 Ru 2:22; of God, c. acc. (sf.), + ב instr. Ex 5:3. e.g. Joshua 2:16
- 4. encounter with request, entreat, c. ב pers. Je 7:16 Jb 21:15, sq. cl. Je 27:18 Ru 1:16, + ל pers. on whose behalf Gn 23:8. e.g. Jeremiah 7:16
- 5. strike, touch, of boundary, c. ב loc. Jos 16:7; 19:11, 22, 26, 27, 34(×2), cf. 17:10; c. אֶל loc. 19:11. e.g. Joshua 16:7
Hiphil
- 1. cause to light upon, Pf. 3 ms. הִפְגִּיעַ c. acc. rei + ב pers. Is 53:6. e.g. Isaiah 53:6
- 2. cause one (acc.) to entreat 1 s. הִפְגַּעְתִּי (ב pers.) Je 15:11 (otherwise Gie; Co del. v. as gloss). e.g. Jeremiah 15:11
- 3. make entreaty, 3 pl. הִפְגִּעוּ Je 36:25 c. ב pers.; more gen. interpose, Impf. 3 ms. יַפְגִּיעַ Is 53:12, c. ל pers. in whose behalf; Pt. מַפְגִּיעַ 59:16 one interposing. e.g. Jeremiah 36:25
- 4. make attack, only Pt. Jb 36:32 assailant, but Ol Bu Du al. מִפְגָּע mark. e.g. Job 36:32
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
vb. meet, encounter, reach (NH id.; Aramaic פְּגַע, ܦܓܰܥ; poss. akin to Arabic فَجَأَ, فَجِىَٔ happen to, light upon; فَجَعَ is pain, afflict);—
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Origin: a primitive root
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
פָּגַע
- (b. h.)
- 1. to strike against, come in contact with, meet; (in a hostile sense) to attack, strike. Tanḥ. Vayishl. 4 כיון שפ׳ בעשו when he met Esau. Gen. R. s. 75 פ׳ בלובשי ברזל he met those clad in iron armor. Succ. 52ᵇ, a. e. אם פ׳ בך מנוול זה, v. נָוַול. Y. Kidd. III, 64ᵈ bot. ולמה לא פָּגַעְתָּה בו (not ביה) why didst thou not connect thyself with him? Num. R. s. 5 כדי שלא תִפְגַּע בכולם מדת הדין וכ׳ (not יפגע) in order that divine justice might not strike all of them, he took half of his name (the letter ה) &c. Ex. R. s. 5, end בקשה … לִפְגּוֹעַ במשה divine justice wanted to strike Moses. Koh. R. to IX, 11 עת היא שפּוֹגַעַת באדם וכ׳ (not האדם), v. עִרְעֵר III.
- 2. to beseech, entreat. Gen. R. s. 68 (ref. to Gen. XXVIII, 11) וַיִּפְגַּע במקום … מפני מה וכ׳ ‘and he entreated the Lord’ … why is the Lord surnamed maḳom? (v. מָקוֹם). Ib. מהו ויפגע במקום צלי וכ׳ what does vayifgʿa bammaḳom mean? He prayed on the site of the Temple; a. e.—Part. pass. פָּגוּעַ; pl. פְּגוּעִין stricken, afflicted (with insanity). Y. Sabb. VI, 8ᵇ top, v. פֶּגַע. e.g. Genesis 28:11
- to be stricken; to suffer. Ib. משנ׳ after one has been stricken; Y. Erub. X, 26ᶜ bot. Ḥag. 14ᵇ; Tosef. ib. II, 3 הציץ ונ׳ he looked (into the divine secrets, v. פַּרְדֵּס) and became demented; Y. ib. II, 77ᵇ top. Sabb. 13ᵇ אין שוטה נ׳ a maniac cannot be stricken with dementia (one overladen with sorrows becomes indifferent to new afflictions); a. e.
- 1. to cause suffering, afflict, v. מַפְגִּיעַ.
- 2. to suffer. Koh. R. l. c. עת … והוא מַפְגִּיעַ time strikes man …, and he suffers, v. עִרְעֵר III.
- 3. to entreat. Ib. פעמים שאדם מפגיע וכ׳ at times man prays and is answered &c.
פְּגַע I
- 1. to meet. Targ. Prov. XVII, 12 (h. text פגוש). Ib. XXIX, 13 (Var. פגיחו); a. e.—Gen. R. s. 36, beg. פ׳ ביה שידא וכ׳ the demon Sh’madon met him; Yalk. ib. 61; Lev. R. s. 5 פ׳ ליה וכ׳ (corr. acc.). B. Kam. 99ᵇ פַּגְעוּ ביה … גברא R. K. and R. A. met that man. Ber. 58ᵇ. Y. Kidd. III, 64ᵈ bot. יאות עביד דלא פ׳ ביה he did right not to connect himself with that man. Ib. top דלא תִפְגַּע בהון, v. פְּסוּלָא I; a. fr.
- 2. to plague. Gen. R. s. 58; Yalk. ib. 102 פַּגְעוּנֵיה, v. סְרַס.
- to intercede, pray. Targ. Esth. IV, 14.
- to happen. Y. Ber. II, 5ᶜ bot. ומִתְפְּגַע ביה and it happened to him (he died).
פֶּגַע
- preced.) contact, accident, (evil) occurence; affliction, plague. Ber. 17ᵃ ותצילני מפ׳ רע and save me from meeting with evil; a. e.—Pl. פְּגָעִים, פְּגָעִין evil spirits. Shebu. 15ᵇ (expl. בשיר, Mish. ib. II, 2) the song of thanksgiving (Ps. XXX) ושיר של פ׳ וכ׳ and the song referring to evil spirits (Ps. XCI, 1—9), and some call it song of n’gaʿim (plagues, with ref. to ונגע, ib. 10); Y. Erub. X, 26ᶜ bot. אומרין היו שיר של פ׳ וכ׳ they used to recite the ‘song of demons’ in Jerusalem (in the Temple, when one was threatened with insanity); Y. Sabb. VI, 8ᵇ top שיר פגועין, the song for the stricken. Midr. Till. to Ps. XCI שיר של פ׳ היה אומר משה וכ׳ Moses recited the ninety-first psalm on ascending the heavens, when he said &c. e.g. Psalms 91:1
פְּגַע II
- 1. evil occurrence, plague. Targ. I Kings V, 18.—Pl. פְּגָעִין. Ruth R. to I, 16 (ref. to אל תפגעי ib., as if it were תִּפָּגְעִי) לא תחטא עלי לא תסבין פ׳ מני (not פגעיך) do not commit a sin through me, do not suffer afflictions on my account (by dissuading me from embracing the Jewish faith).
- 2. pl. evil spirits. Targ. II Esth. I, 2.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 36 distinct written forms H6293 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that stem’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H6293, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derived from this word
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Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 43 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 43 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
- Genesis 23:8
- Exodus 5:3
- Numbers 35:19
- Joshua 2:16
- Judges 8:21
- Ruth 1:16
- 1 Samuel 10:5
- 2 Samuel 1:15
- 1 Kings 2:25
- Job 21:15
- Isaiah 47:3
- Jeremiah 7:16
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
