pagash · meet

What it means

pagash (פָּגַשׁ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “meet”.

Someone, come upon, encounter.

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 run into someone, sometimes to attack.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• meet ×6
• met ×5
• met him ×2
• meets you ×1

Where it appears

• Genesis×2
• Exodus×2
• 1 Samuel×1
• 2 Samuel×1
• Job×1
• Psalms×1
• Proverbs×3
• Isaiah×1
• Jeremiah×1
• Hosea×1

• Genesis 32:17

  He commanded the first, saying, “When Esau my brother meets you and asks you, saying, ‘Whose are you, and where are you going, and whose are these ahead of you?’

• Genesis 33:8

  He said, “What do you mean by all this camp that I met?” He said, “To find favor in the eyes of my lord.”

• Exodus 4:24

  On the way, at the lodging place, YHWH met him and sought to put him to death.

• Exodus 4:27

  YHWH said to Aaron, “Go to meet Moses in the wilderness.” So he went and met him at the mountain of Elohim and kissed him.

• 1 Samuel 25:20

  As she was riding on the donkey and coming down under cover of the mountain, look, David and his men were coming down toward her, and she met them.

• 2 Samuel 2:13

  And Joab son of Zeruiah and the servants of David went out and met them at the pool of Gibeon together; and they sat down, these on this side of the pool and those on that side of the pool.

• Job 5:14

  By day they meet darkness, and as at night they grope at noon.

• Psalms 85:10

  Loyal love and faithfulness have met; righteousness and peace have kissed.

• Proverbs 17:12

  Let a man meet a bear robbed of her cubs, and not a senseless man in his folly.

• Proverbs 22:2

  The rich and the poor meet together; the Maker of them all is YHWH.

• Proverbs 29:13

  The poor man and the man of oppressions meet; YHWH gives light to the eyes of both.

• Isaiah 34:14

  And desert creatures will meet with hyenas, and the male goat will call to its companion; yes, there Lilith will rest and find for herself a resting place.

• Jeremiah 41:6

  And Ishmael son of Nethaniah went out to meet them from Mizpah, going along and weeping; and it happened, when he met them, he said to them, “Come to Gedaliah son of Ahikam.”

• Hosea 13:8

  I will meet them like a bear robbed of her cubs, and I will tear open the covering of their heart, and there I will devour them like a lioness; the animal of the field will rip them apart.