Quick Definition
to fall on
Strong's Definition
to impinge, by accident or violence, or (figuratively) by importunity
Derivation: a primitive root;
KJV Usage: come (betwixt), cause to entreat, fall (upon), make intercession, intercessor, intreat, lay, light (upon), meet (together), pray, reach, run.
TWOT Reference: 1731
Outline of Biblical Usage
Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents
This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
פָּגַע (pa.ga) — to fall on. 1) to encounter, meet, reach, entreat, make intercession 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to meet, light upon, join 1a2) to meet (of kindness) 1a3) to encounter, fall upon (of hostility) 1a4) to encounter, entreat (of request) 1a5) to strike, touch (of boundary) 1b) (Hiphil) 1b1) to cause to light upon 1b2) to cause to entreat 1b3) to make entreaty, interpose 1b4) to make attack 1b5) to reach the mark
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
verb · פֶּגַע · מִפְגָּע
Meet | verb qal
to meet, to run into, to find, to come across, to come upon = process by which humans or animals unexpectedly meet other humans or animals while travelling from one location to another
Meet | verb qal
to meet, to reach, to find = process by which humans meet other humans or reach an object while travelling from one location to another
GEN 28:11 · GEN 32:2 · NUM 35:19 · NUM 35:21 · JOS 2:16 · JOS 16:7 · JOS 17:10 · JOS 19:11 · JOS 19:11 · JOS 19:22 · JOS 19:26 · JOS 19:27 · JOS 19:34 · JOS 19:34 · ISA 47:3
Meet | verb qal
to molest, to strike down, to punish = action by which humans go and meet other humans ► with the purpose of killing or harming that person
EXO 5:3 · JDG 8:21 · JDG 15:12 · JDG 18:25 · RUT 2:22 · 1SA 22:17 · 1SA 22:18 · 1SA 22:18 · 2SA 1:15 · 1KI 2:25 · 1KI 2:29 · 1KI 2:31 · 1KI 2:32 · 1KI 2:34 · 1KI 2:46 · ISA 64:4
Meet | verb hif
to cause to reach = causative action by which deities cause objects to go and reach another object
Bear | verb hif
to cause (something) to meet (someone) > to make (someone) responsible for (something) literally: to cause an event to meet someone; hence: = causative action by which deities make humans responsible for an event
Speak | verb qal, verb hif
to entreat, to beg, to intercede literally: to meet; hence: = action by which humans address other humans with humility and politeness, ► with the purpose of asking for a favor
1 ISA 64:4 NJPS | RSV NIV NJB NRSV REB GNT CEV "to meet, to welcome, to receive" 2 ISA 47:3 MT HOTTP-C RSV NIV NRSV REB CEV [b] | NJPS [f] | NJB GNT יִפְגַּע
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
פָּגַע vb. meet, encounter, reach Qal meet, light upon
meet, with kindness
encounter with hostility, fall upon
encounter with request, entreat
strike, touch, of boundary
Hiph. cause to light upon
cause one (acc.) to entreat
make entreaty; more gen. interpose
encounter with request, entreat
make attack
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