פָּגַע pâgaʻ — to impinge, by accident or violence, or (figuratively) by importunity
Translated in the KJV as come, cause to entreat, fall, make intercession, intercessor, intreat, lay, light, meet, pray, reach, run.
a primitive root; to impinge, by accident or violence, or (figuratively) by importunity.
pâgaʻ in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Imperfect (yiqtol) 9Perfect (qatal) 9Wayyiqtol 7Imperative 6Infinitive construct 3Sequential perfect (weqatal) 3Jussive 3
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 the son of Zohar,
And he lighted upon a certain place, and tarried there all night, because the sun was set; and he took of the stones of that place, and put them for his pillows, and lay down in that place to sleep.
And when Jacob saw them, he said, This is God’s host: and he called the name of that place Mahanaim.
Hiph'il
Perfect (qatal) 3Participle (active) 2Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
With clouds he covereth the light; and commandeth it not to shine by the cloud that cometh betwixt.
All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.
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 ›