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נָכֶה

nache · stricken, crippled

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H5223 · appears 3 times in the Bible

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What it means

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

Struck, stricken; of the feet, crippled; of the spirit, crushed.

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. Struck; lame in the feet.
  2. Broken within.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

  • injured ×2
  • stricken ×1

Where it appears

  • 2 Samuel 4:4

    Now Jonathan son of Saul had a son injured in the feet. He was five years old when the news of Saul and Jonathan came from Jezreel, and his nurse picked him up and fled; and it happened, as she hurried to flee, that he fell and became lame. His name was Mephibosheth.

  • 2 Samuel 9:3

    The king said, “Is there no longer any man of the house of Saul, that I may do the loyal love of Elohim with him?” Ziba said to the king, “There is still a son of Jonathan, injured in the feet.”

  • Isaiah 66:2

    And all these things my hand has made, and so all these things came to be, declares YHWH. But to this one I will look: to the afflicted and the stricken in spirit, and the one who trembles at my word.