נָכֶה
nâkeh · H5223 · Hebrew · 3 occurrences
Meanings
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crippled, lame
Literally: struck in (one's) feet; hence: state in which humans are unable to walk
Examples2 Samuel 4:4 Now Jonathan, Saul’s son, had a son who was disabled in both feet. He was five years old when the news of Saul and Jonathan came from Jezreel, and his nurse picked him up and fled. But it happened that in her hurry to flee, he fell and could no longer walk. And his name was Mephibosheth.
2 Samuel 9:3 Then the king said, “Is there no one remaining of the house of Saul to whom I could show the kindness of God?” And Ziba said to the king, “There is still a son of Jonathan, one who is disabled in both feet.”
Isaiah 66:2 “For My hand made all these things, So all these things came into being,” declares the LORD. “But I will look to this one, At one who is humble and contrite in spirit, and who trembles at My word.
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brokenhearted
Literally: crippled in spirit; hence: state in which humans have lost their pride and have become humble
ExamplesIsaiah 66:2 “For My hand made all these things, So all these things came into being,” declares the LORD. “But I will look to this one, At one who is humble and contrite in spirit, and who trembles at My word.
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- רוּחַspirit, wind 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- אֵלto, toward 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 1 word
- דַּכָּא dakkâʼ · H1793 · crushing, crushed, humble
- Both terms share the core sense "contrite" — broken or crushed in spirit. One also carries a sense of "destruction" more broadly, while the other also means "lame" (physical disability); the contrite-sense overlap is real but represents only one facet of each word's range.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Unable002001001065
- The word describes physical lameness or incapacity, as of feet that are lame (2 Samuel 4:4), tying the word to an inability to walk or stand normally.
- Insignificant002001002015
- The word is also used of a contrite or lowly spirit that God does not despise (Psalm 51:17), a broader sense of humbled lowliness than the physical-lameness citations sampled here.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H5223. nakeh [נָכֵה] adjective smitten, stricken (compare [נָכָא]); — only construct:…
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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