פָּגַשׁ
to encounter
‘to encounter’ is one of 4 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
See every Qal verb in the Hebrew Bible →
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Stem
- Niphal
- Usually the simple passive or reflexive of the Qal (“he was written”).
- Qal
- The basic, simple active stem — the plain form of the verb (“he wrote”). Here: ‘meet’
- Piel
- An intensive or resultative active stem.
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).
- Sequential Perfect
- A perfect with prefixed waw continuing a preceding imperfect or command (waw-consecutive perfect).
- Infinitive Construct
- A bound verbal noun, frequently with prepositions (“to write / in writing”).
- Imperfect
- An incomplete, ongoing, or future action (“he will / would write”).
- Infinitive Absolute
- An unbound verbal noun, often intensifying or standing in for a finite verb.
Person
- 3rd Person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
- 1st Person
- The speaker (“I / we”).
Gender
- Common
- Either gender — not distinguished for this form.
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms 11 distinct
- Verb, Niphal, Perfect, 3rd Person, Common, Plural 3 times (21%)
- Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular 2 times (14%)
- Verb, Qal, Sequential Perfect, 3rd Person, Common, Plural 1 time (7%)
- Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Feminine, Singular 1 time (7%)
- Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural 1 time (7%)
- Verb, Qal, Infinitive Construct 1 time (7%)
- Verb, Piel, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural 1 time (7%)
- Verb, Qal, Infinitive Absolute 1 time (7%)
+3 more forms (3 occurrences)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 14 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H6298 appears — 14 distinct verses across 10 books. 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.
Genesis 2 verses
- Genesis 32:17 יִֽפְגָּשְׁ/ךָ֞ Qal impf 3ms + sfx pers 2ms He commanded the foremost, saying, "When Esau, my brother, meets you, and asks you, saying, 'Whose are you? Where are you going? Whose are these before you?'
- Genesis 33:8 פָּגָ֑שְׁתִּי Qal pf 1cs Esau said, "What do you mean by all this company which I met?" Jacob said, "To find favor in the sight of my lord."
Exodus 2 verses
- Exodus 4:24 וַ/יִּפְגְּשֵׁ֣/הוּ conj + Qal wimpf 3ms + sfx pers 3ms It happened on the way at a lodging place, that Yahweh met him and wanted to kill him.
- Exodus 4:27 וַֽ/יִּפְגְּשֵׁ֛/הוּ conj + Qal wimpf 3ms + sfx pers 3ms Yahweh said to Aaron, "Go into the wilderness to meet Moses." He went, and met him on God's mountain, and kissed him.
1 Samuel 1 verse
2 Samuel 1 verse
Job 1 verse
Psalms 1 verse
Proverbs 3 verses
- Proverbs 17:12 פָּג֬וֹשׁ Qal inf.abs Let a bear robbed of her cubs meet a man, Rather than a fool in his folly.
- Proverbs 22:2 נִפְגָּ֑שׁוּ Niphal pf 3cp The rich and the poor have this in common: Yahweh is the maker of them all.
- Proverbs 29:13 נִפְגָּ֑שׁוּ Niphal pf 3cp The poor man and the oppressor have this in common: Yahweh gives sight to the eyes of both.
Isaiah 1 verse
Jeremiah 1 verse
Hosea 1 verse
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.
פגש — transliterated pâgash — is a Hebrew verb carrying the sense “to encounter.” It first appears in Genesis 32:17. The Hebrew Bible uses it across 14 verses — uncommon. The verb spans 3 stems, from Qal to Niphal. See the sense tree, 14-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H6298 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 →
- 14
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 14 distinct verses.
- 10 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 10 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #1,910
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 1,910 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 14 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 14 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 5 verses · 36%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 5 verses · 36%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 4 verses · 29%
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: Met 3×, Meet together 2×
- American Standard Version: Met 3×, Meet together 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Have this in common 2×, Met 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Meet together 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H6298 across 14 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 9 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 H6298 across 14 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 9 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 H6298 across 14 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 10 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H6298 across 15 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 13 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
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 3 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
- meet
Niphal
- . meet together, each other
Piel
- . intens. they keep encountering darkness in the daytime.
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
[ פָּגַשׁ ] vb. meet, encounter
— 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.
פָּגַשׁ
- to strike against, meet, v. infra.
- to meet; to wrestle, fight. Deut. R. s. 11 נִפְגַּשִׁתִּי עם המלאך וכ׳ I wrestled with the angel and defeated him; אתה נִפְגַּשְׁתָּ וכ׳ thou didst meet the angel in thy territory; Yalk. ib. 951 פָּגַשְׁתִּי, פָּגַּשְׁתָּ.
- same. Deut. R. s. 9; Yalk. Ps. 840. Y’lamd. to Gen. XLVIII, 1, quot. in Ar. מִתְפַּגֵּשׁ.
*פְּגַשׁ
- , to strike, kick. Targ. Y. II, Deut. XXXII, 15, quot. in Ar. פַּגְשׁוּ (as corresp. to כשית, v. Ibn Ezra a. l.).
פַּגָּשׁ
- K’far Paggash. Y. Ab. Zar. V, 44ᵈ. Tosef. Ab. Zar. VI (VII), 8 כפר פַּגָּשָׁה.
פגש
- , Tosef. Kel. B. Mets. III, 1, v. פִּגְיוֹן
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 12 distinct written forms H6298 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.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 14 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 14 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 32:17
- Exodus 4:24
- 1 Samuel 25:20
- 2 Samuel 2:13
- Job 5:14
- Psalms 85:10
- Proverbs 17:12
- Isaiah 34:14
- Jeremiah 41:6
- Hosea 13:8
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.
