פָּגַר
pâgar · H6296 · Hebrew · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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to be exhausted
To be too weak to be able to accomplish a certain event; as a result of weariness
Examples1 Samuel 30:10 But David pursued, he and four hundred men, for two hundred who were too exhausted to cross the brook Besor stayed behind.
1 Samuel 30:21 When David came to the two hundred men who were too exhausted to follow David and had been left behind at the brook Besor, and they went out to meet David and to meet the people who were with him, then David approached the people and greeted them.
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
Who or what does itSubject
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- Not stated: they 2
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- מִןfrom+ הָלַךְto go, to walk 1
- מִןfrom+ עָבַרto pass 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 3 words
- יָעַף yâʻaph · H3286 · to grow faint, to grow weary, to fly
- יָעֵף is a distinct Hebrew verb denoting weariness and faintness, closely overlapping with פָּגַר in expressing physical exhaustion or becoming faint.
- עָיֵף ʻâyêph · H5889 · weary, faint, famished
- עָיֵף is an adjective describing the state of being faint or weary, semantically parallel to the resultant state expressed by the verb פָּגַר.
- כָּשַׁל kâshal · H3782 · to stumble, to fall, to stagger
- כָּשַׁל can denote physical weakness and feebleness leading to stumbling, overlapping with פָּגַר's sense of physical failure through exhaustion.
Contrasting words 1 word
- חָזַק châzaq · H2388 · to be strong, to prevail, to overcome
- חָזַק denotes strength and vigor, the direct lexical opposite of becoming faint or exhausted as expressed by פָּגַר.
In the other Testament 2 words
- ἐκλύω eklýō · G1590 · to become extremely weary, to give out, to faint from exhaustion
- ἐκλύω is the standard Greek equivalent for expressing physical or mental exhaustion/faintness, precisely matching the semantic range of פָּגַר in contexts of becoming faint or exhausted.
- κάμνω kámnō · G2577 · to be sick, to be very sick, to become discouraged
- κάμνω denotes physical weariness and faintness, overlapping with פָּגַר's sense of becoming exhausted or faint from exertion.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Weak002001001069
- פָּגַר describes being faint or weary, a weakened, exhausted state.
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H6296. pagar [מָּגַר] verb Pi`el be exhausted, faint (מְּגַר ᵑ7 derived species tear…
[מָּגַר] verb Pi`el be exhausted, faint (מְּגַר ᵑ7 derived species tear down, destroy; Assyrian pagru, body, corpse; Late Hebrew מֶּגֶר = Biblical Hebrew; Aramaic מַּגְרָא, ; Palmyrene פגר; Mandean פאגרא NöM § 89); — Perfect3plural מִן מִּגְּרוּ they were too faint to go, etc. 1Sa 30:10, 1Sa 30:21.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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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