paga · meet, intercede

What it means

paga (פָּגַע) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “meet, intercede”.

Meet someone, come upon; also fall upon (attack). With "for me", intercede: speak to another on someone's behalf.

How to say it

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. To go to meet someone and reach him.
2. To fall on someone to wound or kill him.
3. To plead for another before someone who can help.
4. To reach a certain point, like the border of a tribe.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Word study

To meet someone or to reach something; depending on whom and how: to meet, to fall upon someone, to press, or to intercede for another. In descriptions of borders, to touch a place.

• Meeting, coming upon Genesis 32:1Exodus 23:4Genesis 28:11
• Falling upon someone 1 Kings 2:251 Samuel 22:17Exodus 5:3
• Interceding for someone Genesis 23:8Jeremiah 7:16Isaiah 53:12
• “Do not press me” Ruth 1:16
• A border that touches a place Joshua 16:7Joshua 19:11

How we translate it

“Meet” or “come upon” for encounters (“angels of Elohim met him”, Genesis 32:1), and, with the preposition בְּ, “fall upon” (“fall upon” 7 times, “fell upon” 5). When one speaks on behalf of another, “intercede” (Genesis 23:8; “for the transgressors he intercedes”, Isaiah 53:12). In Ruth 1:16 the same phrase is rendered “Do not press me”, by the sense. In Joshua, of the borders, “touched” (8). In Isaiah 53:6, in the causative form, “caused to fall on him”.

How it is translated

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

• touched ×8
• fall upon ×7
• fell upon ×5
• intercede ×4
• attack ×3
• meet ×3
• met ×2
• when he meets ×2
• He came upon ×1
• caused to fall ×1
• others ×10

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×3
• Exodus×3
• Numbers×2
• Joshua×10
• Judges×3
• Ruth×2
• 1 Samuel×4
• 2 Samuel×1
• 1 Kings×6
• Job×2
• Isaiah×5
• Jeremiah×4
• Amos×1

• Genesis 23:8

  He spoke with them, saying, “If it is your will that I bury my dead out of my sight, hear me and intercede for me with Ephron son of Zohar,

• Genesis 28:11

  He came upon the place and spent the night there, because the sun had set. He took one of the stones of the place and put it at his head, and lay down in that place.

• Genesis 32:1

  Now Jacob went on his way, and angels of Elohim met him.

• Exodus 5:3

  They said, “The Elohim of the Hebrews has met with us. Please let us go a journey of three days into the wilderness and sacrifice to YHWH our Elohim, or he will fall upon us with pestilence or with the sword.”

• Exodus 5:20

  They met Moses and Aaron, who were standing to meet them, as they came out from Pharaoh.

• Exodus 23:4

  When you come upon your enemy's ox or his donkey going astray, you shall surely bring it back to him.

• Numbers 35:19

  The avenger of blood himself shall put to death the manslayer; when he meets him, he shall put him to death.

• Numbers 35:21

  or in enmity struck him with his hand and he died, the one who struck shall surely be put to death; he is a manslayer. The avenger of blood shall put to death the manslayer when he meets him.

• Joshua 2:16

  She said to them, “Go to the hill country, or the pursuers will come upon you. Hide there three days until the pursuers return, and afterward you may go on your way.”

• Joshua 16:7

  and it went down from Janoah to Ataroth and to Naarah, and touched Jericho, and went out at the Jordan.

• Joshua 17:10

  The south was Ephraim’s and the north Manasseh’s, and the sea was its border; and they reached Asher on the north and Issachar on the east.

• Joshua 19:11

  and their border went up westward to Maralah, and touched Dabbesheth, and touched the brook that is east of Jokneam;

• Joshua 19:22

  And the border touched Tabor, Shahazimah, and Beth-shemesh, and the ends of their border were at the Jordan: sixteen cities with their villages.

• Joshua 19:26

  Allammelech, Amad, and Mishal; and on the west it touched Carmel and Shihor-libnath;

• Joshua 19:27

  and it turned back toward the sunrise to Beth-dagon, and touched Zebulun and the Valley of Iphtah-el to the north, Beth-emek and Neiel, and went out to Cabul on the left,

• Joshua 19:34

  and the border turned back westward to Aznoth-tabor, and went out from there to Hukkok, and touched Zebulun on the south, and touched Asher on the west, and Judah at the Jordan toward the sunrise.

• Judges 8:21

  Zebah and Zalmunna said, “Rise yourself and fall upon us, for as the man is, so is his strength.” So Gideon rose and killed Zebah and Zalmunna, and he took the crescents that were on the necks of their camels.

• Judges 15:12

  And they said to him, “To bind you we have come down, to give you into the hand of the Philistines.” And Samson said to them, “Swear to me that you will not attack me.”

• Judges 18:25

  And the sons of Dan said to him, “Do not let your voice be heard among us, or men bitter of soul will attack you, and you will lose your life and the lives of your household.”

• Ruth 1:16

  But Ruth said, “Do not press me to abandon you, to turn back from following you; for where you go, I will go, and where you spend the night, I will spend the night. Your people is my people, and your Elohim is my Elohim.

• Ruth 2:22

  And Naomi said to Ruth, her daughter-in-law, “It is good, my daughter, that you go out with his young women, and that they do not attack you in another field.”

• 1 Samuel 10:5

  After that you will come to Gibeah of Elohim, where are the garrisons of the Philistines; and it will happen, as you come there to the city, that you will meet a band of prophets coming down from the high place, and before them harp and tambourine and flute and lyre, and they will be prophesying.

• 1 Samuel 22:17

  The king said to the runners who stood by him, “Turn and put to death the priests of YHWH, because their hand too is with David, and because they knew that he was fleeing, and they did not inform me.” But the servants of the king were not willing to stretch out their hand to fall upon the priests of YHWH.

• 1 Samuel 22:18

  The king said to Doeg, “You turn and fall upon the priests.” So Doeg the Edomite turned, and he fell upon the priests, and he put to death on that day eighty-five men who wore the linen ephod.

• 2 Samuel 1:15

  David called one of the young men and said, “Come near; fall upon him.” And he struck him and he died.

• 1 Kings 2:25

  And King Solomon sent by the hand of Benaiah son of Jehoiada, and he fell upon him, and he died.

• 1 Kings 2:29

  And it was told to King Solomon that Joab had fled to the tent of YHWH, and there he was beside the altar. And Solomon sent Benaiah son of Jehoiada, saying, “Go, fall upon him.”

• 1 Kings 2:31

  And the king said to him, “Do as he has spoken: fall upon him and bury him, and take away the blood that Joab shed without cause from me and from the house of my father.

• 1 Kings 2:32

  And YHWH will bring back his blood on his head, because he fell upon two men more righteous and better than he and killed them with the sword, while my father David did not know it: Abner son of Ner, commander of the army of Israel, and Amasa son of Jether, commander of the army of Judah.

• 1 Kings 2:34

  Then Benaiah son of Jehoiada went up and fell upon him and put him to death, and he was buried at his house in the wilderness.

• 1 Kings 2:46

  Then the king commanded Benaiah son of Jehoiada, and he went out and fell upon him, and he died. And the kingdom was established in the hand of Solomon.

• Job 21:15

  What is Shaddai, that we should serve him? And of what use is it to us that we entreat him?’

• Job 36:32

  He covers his palms with light, and commands it to strike the mark.

• Isaiah 47:3

  Your nakedness will be uncovered, your reproach also will be seen; I will take vengeance, and I will not meet any human being.”

• Isaiah 53:6

  All of us like sheep went astray; each to his own way we turned; and YHWH caused to fall on him the iniquity of us all.

• Isaiah 53:12

  Therefore I will give him a portion with the many, and with the strong he will divide the spoil, because he poured out to death his soul, and with the transgressors he was counted; and he carried the sin of many, and for the transgressors he intercedes.

• Isaiah 59:16

  And he saw that there was no man, and he was astonished that there was no one to intercede; so his arm brought him salvation, and his righteousness, it upheld him.

• Isaiah 64:5

  You meet the one who rejoices and does righteousness, those who remember you in your ways. Look, you were angry, and we sinned; in them from of old, and we will be saved.

• Jeremiah 7:16

  And you, do not pray for this people, and do not lift up for them a cry or a prayer, and do not intercede with me, for I will not hear you.

• Jeremiah 15:11

  YHWH said: “Have I not set you free for good? Have I not made the enemy plead with you in the time of evil and in the time of distress?

And 6 more times.