H6293 — פָּגַע (paga)¶

Core Data¶

Strong's: H6293
Original: פָּגַע
Transliteration: paga
Pronunciation: paw-gah'
Part of Speech: Verb (primitive root)
Root: primitive root — to impinge
Occurrences: 43 unique verses (54 tokens) across 13 books
First Occurrence: Gen 23:8 — "And he communed with them, saying, If it be your mind that I should bury my dead out of my sight; hear me, and intreat for me to Ephron"
Hapax Legomenon: No

Lexicon Definition¶

A primitive root; to impinge, by accident or violence, or (figuratively) by importunity: come (betwixt), cause to entreat, fall (upon), make intercession, intercessor, intreat, lay, light (upon), meet (together), pray, reach, run.

Verb Stem Distribution¶

Stem	Count	Typical Meaning
Qal	40	to meet, encounter, reach (to), fall upon, strike
Hiphil	6	to cause to meet, cause to fall upon; to intercede, make entreaty

The Qal accounts for 87% of verb occurrences and covers the full physical range — accidental meeting, hostile assault, and geographic boundary contact. The Hiphil (13%) introduces causation and is the exclusive stem for the intercessory/advocacy sense in prophetic texts (Isa 53:6, 12; 59:16; Jer 15:11; 36:25; Job 36:32).

Translation Distribution (KJV)¶

Translation	Verses	%
fall (upon) / fell (upon)	10	23%
meet / met / meeteth	8	19%
reach(eth) / reached	6	14%
make intercession / intercessor	4	9%
intreat / entreat	3	7%
light (upon)	1	2%
pray	1	2%
run (upon)	1	2%
come (betwixt)	1	2%
laid (on)	1	2%
Other (function-word renderings)	7	16%

Distribution by Book¶

Book	Count	Per 100 Verses
Joshua	8	1.2
1 Kings	6	0.7
Isaiah	5	0.4
Jeremiah	4	0.3
Genesis	3	0.2
Exodus	3	0.2
Judges	3	0.5
1 Samuel	3	0.4
Numbers	2	0.2
Ruth	2	—
Job	2	0.2
2 Samuel	1	0.1
Amos	1	0.7

Joshua has the highest concentration (1.2/100v), driven by boundary descriptions where tribal borders "reach to" landmarks. The 1 Kings cluster (2:25–46) narrates Solomon's execution orders. Isaiah contains the theologically significant Hiphil intercession texts.

Semantic Categories¶

1. Encountering / Meeting (accidental or planned)¶

Gen 32:1 — "And Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him."
Exo 5:20 — "And they met Moses and Aaron, who stood in the way."
1 Sam 10:5 — "thou shalt come to the hill of God... and it shall come to pass... that thou shalt meet a company of prophets"
Amos 5:19 — "As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him"

2. Hostile Attack / Falling Upon¶

Jdg 8:21 — "Rise thou, and fall upon us: for as the man is, so is his strength"
1 Sam 22:18 — "Turn thou, and fall upon the priests"
2 Sam 1:15 — "Go near, and fall upon him. And he smote him that he died."
1 Ki 2:25 — "And king Solomon sent by the hand of Benaiah... and he fell upon him that he died."
1 Ki 2:34 — "So Benaiah... went up, and fell upon him, and slew him"

3. Geographic Boundary / Reaching To¶

Jos 16:7 — "And it went down from Janohah to Ataroth, and to Naarath, and came to Jericho"
Jos 19:22 — "And the coast reacheth to Tabor, and Shahazimah"
Jos 19:26 — "reacheth to Carmel westward, and to Shihorlibnath"
Jos 19:34 — "the coast turneth westward to Aznothtabor... and reacheth to Zebulun"

4. Entreaty / Intercession (Hiphil and some Qal)¶

Isa 53:6 — "the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all" (Hiphil — caused [iniquity] to impinge upon him)
Isa 53:12 — "he... made intercession for the transgressors" (Hiphil)
Isa 59:16 — "wondered that there was no intercessor" (Hiphil participle)
Jer 7:16 — "neither make intercession to me" (Qal — do not press upon / plead with me)
Jer 36:25 — "Elnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah had made intercession to the king" (Hiphil)

5. Urging / Pressing Upon (personal entreaty)¶

Gen 23:8 — "hear me, and intreat for me to Ephron" (Qal)
Ruth 1:16 — "Intreat me not to leave thee" (Qal — do not press upon me)

Common Collocations¶

Word	Strong's	Co-occurrences	Typical Pattern
מוּת (muwth)	H4191	9x (21%)	"fell upon him, that he died" — lethal assault formula
מֶלֶךְ (melek)	H4428	8x (19%)	royal execution orders, intercession before the king
אִישׁ (iysh)	H376	7x (16%)	"as the man is, so is his strength" — personal encounter
יְהֹוָה (YHWH)	H3068	7x (16%)	intercession to/from YHWH; "the LORD hath laid on him"
יָד (yad)	H3027	6x (14%)	delivery into someone's hand after assault
גְּבוּל (gebuwl)	H1366	4x (9%)	boundary lines reaching to landmarks
דָּם (dam)	H1818	4x (9%)	blood avenger contexts (Num 35:19, 21; 1 Ki 2:31–32)

Synonyms (from SDBH)¶

H6419 פָּלַל (palal) — to pray, intercede (the standard prayer verb; paga stresses forceful approach)

Word Family / Cognates¶

H6294 פֶּגַע (pega) — occurrence, chance, impact (noun derived from paga; Job 36:32, 1 Ki 5:18)

Easily Confused Words¶

Word	Strong's	Shared Translation	Key Difference
נָפַל (naphal)	H5307	"fall (upon)"	naphal = generic falling; paga = purposeful impinging/striking upon a target
נָגַע (naga)	H5060	"reach(eth)"	naga = to touch, make contact; paga = to arrive at, reach a boundary
פָּגַשׁ (pagash)	H6298	"meet"	pagash = hostile confrontation; paga = broader — accidental, hostile, or supplicatory

Semantic Domain: Meet¶

Other words in domain: מָצָא (matsa) H4672, פָּגַשׁ (pagash) H6298, קָדַם (qadam) H6923, קָרָא (qara) H7122

LXX Mapping¶

Greek Equivalent	Co-occurrences	PMI Score	Notes
ἀπαντάω (apantao) G528	14	22.38	Primary — "to meet, encounter"
συναντάω (synantao) G4876	8	14.47	"to meet with" — near-synonym of apantao
ἀναιρέω (anaireo) G337	5	10.00	"to take up, slay" — renders "fall upon" (hostile)
θάπτω (thapto) G2290	4	6.80	"to bury" — loose rendering of entreaty contexts
θανατόω (thanatoo) G2289	4	6.42	"to put to death" — renders lethal assault sense
ἀποκτείνω (apokteino) G615	4	6.02	"to kill" — hostile attack sense

The LXX renders paga's meeting sense as apantao/synantao, its hostile sense as anaireo/apokteino/thanatoo, and its intercessory sense with various terms. No single Greek word captures paga's full semantic range. The NT intercession vocabulary (entynchano G1793) does not directly map through LXX to paga but carries a similar "pressing upon / approaching" metaphor.