נָכֵא

nache · stricken, broken

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H5218 · appears 4 times in the Bible

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What it means

nache (נָכֵא) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “stricken, broken”.

Stricken, struck down; a spirit broken by pain.

How to say it

na·che

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

  1. Sunk in grief, wounded.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

  • crushed ×3
  • stricken ×1

Related words

Words that come from it

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

  • Proverbs 15:13

    A glad heart makes the face good, but by the pain of the heart the spirit is crushed.

  • Proverbs 17:22

    A glad heart makes good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bone.

  • Proverbs 18:14

    The spirit of a man will sustain his sickness, but a crushed spirit, who can bear it?

  • Isaiah 16:7

    Therefore Moab will wail for Moab, all of it will wail; for the raisin cakes of Kir-hareseth you will murmur, utterly stricken.