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title: נָכָא — smite · The Tanakh dictionary
description: נָכָא (5217), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: smite. BDB 1906: vb. smite, scourge. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# נָכָא

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«נָכָא» in the Tanakh dictionary: **smite** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 5217 · **BDB:** נָכָא

### Glosses

they.have.been.scourged (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

smite [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5217/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. smite, scourge [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5217/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. smite, scourge (rare Aramaizing form of נָכָה);—only Pf. 3 pl. נִכְּאוּ מִן־הָאָרֶץ Jb 30:8 they are scourged out of the land.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «נָכָא» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5217/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Job 30:8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.30.8/)

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בְּֽנֵי־נָ֭בָל גַּם־בְּנֵ֣י בְלִי־שֵׁ֑ם נִ֝כְּא֗וּ מִן־הָאָֽרֶץ׃

*Word for word:* sons of.a.fool also sons of.not a.name they.have.been.scourged from the land

*JPS 1917:* They are children of churls, yea, children of ignoble men; they were scourged out of the land.

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