--- title: פָּגַע — meet · The Tanakh dictionary description: פָּגַע (6293), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 46 times: meet. BDB 1906: vb. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6293.html) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [dictionaries](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/) / [פ](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/1508.md)‎ / פָּגַע‎ # פָּגַע «פָּגַע» in the Tanakh dictionary: **meet** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers. **Used:** 46 times · **Key:** 6293 · **BDB:** פָּגַע ### Glosses it.touches (8); fall (6); he.fell (5) ### Meaning (OSHB) meet [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6293/#m1) ### Meaning (BDB 1906) vb. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6293/#m2) **The whole BDB entry:** vb. meet, encounter, reach (NH id.; Aramaic פְּגַע, ܦܓܰܥ; poss. akin to Arabic فَجَأَ, فَجِىَٔ happen to, light upon; فَجَعَ is pain, afflict);— Pf. 3 ms. פ׳ 1 K 2:32 +, sf. וּפְגָעוֹ consec. Am 5:19, etc.; Impf. 3 ms. וַיִּפְגַּע Gn 28:11 +; 1 pl. נְפְגַּע Jb 21:15, etc.; Imv. ms. פְּגַע Ju 8:21 +; mpl. פִּגְעוּ Gn 23:8; Inf. cstr. לִפִגֹּעַ 1 S 22:17, sf. פִּגְעוֹ Nu 35:19, 21;— meet, light upon, c. acc. pers. 1 S 10:5 Ex 5:20 (J), c. sf. pers. Am 5:19; פ׳ שׁוֹר Ex 23:4; c. ב pers. Gn 32:2 (E), Nu 35:19, 21 (P); c. ב loc. Gn 28:11 (E). meet, with kindness, c. acc. pers. Is 64:4 (subj. י׳), so 47:3 according to Ew De Di al.; CheHpt. אֶפְרַע (reading, with Du, אמר for אָדָם). encounter with hostility, fall upon c. ב pers. Jos 2:16 (JE), Ju 8:21; 15:12; 18:25 1 S 22:17, 18(×2) 2 S 1:15 1 K 2:25, 29, 31, 32, 34, 46 Ru 2:22; of God, c. acc. (sf.), + ב instr. Ex 5:3. encounter with request, entreat, c. ב pers. Je 7:16 Jb 21:15, sq. cl. Je 27:18 Ru 1:16, + ל pers. on whose behalf Gn 23:8. strike, touch, of boundary, c. ב loc. Jos 16:7; 19:11, 22, 26, 27, 34(×2), cf. 17:10; c. אֶל loc. 19:11. cause to light upon, Pf. 3 ms. הִפְגִּיעַ c. acc. rei + ב pers. Is 53:6. cause one (acc.) to entreat 1 s. הִפְגַּעְתִּי (ב pers.) Je 15:11 (otherwise Gie; Co del. v. as gloss). make entreaty, 3 pl. הִפְגִּעוּ Je 36:25 c. ב pers.; more gen. interpose, Impf. 3 ms. יַפְגִּיעַ Is 53:12, c. ל pers. in whose behalf; Pt. מַפְגִּיעַ 59:16 one interposing. make attack, only Pt. Jb 36:32 assailant, but Ol Bu Du al. מִפְגָּע mark. Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 43 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates) ### Trees and pragmatics [Every English meaning of «פָּגַע» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6293/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames. ### In the verses [Job 36:32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.36.32/) עַל־כַּפַּ֥יִם כִּסָּה־א֑וֹר וַיְצַ֖ו עָלֶ֣יהָ בְמַפְגִּֽיעַ׃ *Word for word:* over palms he.covers light and he.commanded to it (in).an assailant *JPS 1917:* He covereth His hands with the lightning, and giveth it a charge that it strike the mark. [Genesis 32:2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.32.2/) וְיַעֲקֹ֖ב הָלַ֣ךְ לְדַרְכּ֑וֹ וַיִּפְגְּעוּ־ב֖וֹ מַלְאֲכֵ֥י אֱלֹהִֽים׃ *Word for word:* and Jacob he.went to way his and they.met (in) him the.angels of.God *JPS 1917:* And Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him. - ← previous: [פִּגּוּל](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6292.md) - next →: [פֶּגַע](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6294.md) - ↑ back to [פ](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/1508.md)