פָּגַר
to faint
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
- Piel
- An intensive or resultative active stem.
Form
- Perfect
- A completed action or state — Hebrew marks aspect (completeness) more than strict tense (“he wrote”).
Person
- 3rd Person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
Gender
- Common
- Either gender — not distinguished for this form.
Number
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Every verse where H6296 appears — 2 distinct verses across 1 book. 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.
1 Samuel 2 verses
- 1 Samuel 30:10 פִּגְּר֔וּ Piel pf 3cp But David pursued, he and four hundred men; for two hundred stayed behind, who were so faint that they couldn't go over the brook Besor.
- 1 Samuel 30:21 פִּגְּר֣וּ Piel pf 3cp David came to the two hundred men, who were so faint that they could not follow David, whom also they had made to abide at the brook Besor; and they went forth to meet David, and to meet the people who were with him: and when David came near to the people, he greeted them.
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, פגר (pâgar) means “to faint.” A scarce word — 2 verses in all of the Hebrew Bible. The word gravitates to 1 Samuel (100%). Scripture first uses it in 1 Samuel 30:10. It clusters with פגר under a shared root. Dig into 2-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H6296 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 →
- 2
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 2 distinct verses.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #4,807
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 4,807 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 2 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 1 Samuel 2 verses 100%
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 2 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 2 verses · 100%
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: Were so faint 2×
- American Standard Version: Were so faint 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Had been too exhausted 1×, Were too exhausted 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Exhausted 1×, Had been 1×, Were too exhausted 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H6296 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H6296 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H6296 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H6296 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- (Piel) to be exhausted, be faint
Word origin
[ פָּגַר ] vb. Pi. be exhausted, faint
— 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.
פָּגַר
- , Pi. פִּיגֵּר (cmp. פגם, בגר, פכר) to split, break up, destroy. Midr. Till. to Ps. XI, 3 אם הצדיקים שהשתיתו … ופִיגְּרוּ אותם וכ׳ when the wicked come and destroy the righteous that have established thy world &c.; Yalk. ib. 653 אם השיתין … עמדו רשעים ופִגְּרוּם וכ׳ if the wicked have risen and destroyed the foundations (of the Temple) which face the deep (v. שִׁית). Midr. Till. to Ps. LXXIX ופיגרו את בניך (ed. Bub. והרגו). Midr. Till. to Ps. X והצדיקים … ופגרו אותן and the righteous in whom thou didst find pleasure, the enemies haven risen and destroyed them; a. e.
פְּגַר I
- Pa. פַּגֵּר same, to break up, destroy; to break through. Targ. Is. XIV, 17. Targ. O. Ex. XXIII, 24.—Ib. XIX, 21; 24; a. fr.—Part. pass. מְפַגַּר; f. מְפַגְּרָא; pl. מְפַגְּרִין, מְפַגְּרֵי; מפַגּרָתָא. Targ. I Kings XVIII, 30. Targ. Ez. XXXVI, 35.—Pesik. Zakhor, p. 26ᵃ (expl. ערו, Ps. CXXXVII, 7) פַּגְּרוּ פַּגְּרוּ destroy, destroy ye!; ib. ʿĂniya, p. 135ᵃ פַּגָּארוּ פַּגָּארוּ; (Pesik. R. s. 32 תברו); Midr. Till. to Ps. l. c.; Lam. R. to V, 1.—Lev. R. s. 19 (expl. נמהרי לב) מפגרי לבא those crushed at heart (with ref. to ימהרו, Nah. II, 6). e.g. Psalms 137:7
- to wound, bruise. Nidd. 66ᵃ אַפְגּוּרֵי מַפְגְּרָא לה, v. בְּגַר.
- to be destroyed, broken. Targ. Lam. II, 8 (h. text אמללו). Targ. Ez. XXX, 4; a. fr.
פְּגַר II
- Pi.) to be lax, faint (cmp. פּוּג).
- 1. to relax, take vacation, be idle. Sabb. 129ᵇ יומא דמְפַגְּרֵי ביה רבנן a day on which the teachers took a hotiday.
- 2. to cause to relax. Keth. 103ᵇ ור׳ סבר לא אֲפַגְּרֵיה and Rabbi thought, I will not cause him to relax (in his charitable work, by appointing him a member of the college; or ‘I will not wear him out’, overburden him).
- to take vacation, absent one’s self. Ib. 111ᵇ אי׳ … ולא אתא he (the teacher) took a three days’ vacation and did not come (to school). Ib. אמאי אִיפַּגְּרַת why did you absent yourself?
- to be indifferent, neglectful. Gen. R. s. 94 מאי טעמא א׳ מר why have you become indifferent (towards me)?
פַּגָּר
- (פָּגַר; cmp. Syr. בגר repagulum, P. Sm. 448) bit. Tosef. Kel. B. Mets. IV, 7 (some ed. פרומביא).
פֶּגֶר
- v. פְּגַר II) lax, decaying, corpse.—Pl. פְּגָרִים. Gen. R. s. 44 (ref. to Gen. XV, 11) לכשיעשו בניך פ׳ בלא וכ׳ when thy children are lax bodies, without sinews and bones (bare of good deeds and character), thy merit shall stand by them. Y. Sot. V, 20ᶜ top ראו פִיגְרֵי … וכולם פ׳ מתים וכ׳ they saw the bodies of sinful men …, and all of them were dead bodies cast out at the shore; a. e. e.g. Genesis 15:11
פְּגַר III
- Targ. Is. XIV, 19; a. e.—Trnsf. (contemptuously) body. Targ. Prov. X, 13 (h. text גֵּו).—Pl. פִּגְרִין, פִּגְרַיָּא. Targ. Lev. XXVI, 30 (O. ed. Berl. פַּ׳; v. Berl. Targ. O. II, p. 39). Targ. O. Gen. XV, 11 ed. Bon. (ed. Berl. a. oth. פַּלְגַּיָּא; Ms. II פִּגְלַיָּא, ed. Vien. פַּגְלַ׳, v. פגל). Targ. Y. II, Deut. I, 1 פִּיגְ׳; a. e.
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 2 distinct written forms H6296 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.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| פִּגְּר֔וּ | Verb, Piel, Perfect, 3rd Person, Common, Plural | 1 Samuel 30:10 | 1 |
| פִּגְּר֣וּ | Verb, Piel, Perfect, 3rd Person, Common, Plural | 1 Samuel 30:21 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H6296, 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 2 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 2 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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