נְקַשׁ nᵉqash — to knock
Translated in the KJV as smote.
(Aramaic) corresponding to H5367; used in the sense of H5362; to knock.
nᵉqash in each stem
Pe'al
Simple · active — the plain action; the subject does it
Participle (active) 1
נָֽקְשָֽׁן Dan 5:6 Participle (active), feminine plural
Then the king’s countenance was changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›