פָּגַשׁ pâgash — to come in contact with, whether by accident or violence
Translated in the KJV as meet (with, together).
a primitive root; to come in contact with, whether by accident or violence; figuratively, to concur.
pâgash in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Wayyiqtol 4Imperfect (yiqtol) 2Perfect (qatal) 1Infinitive absolute 1Sequential perfect (weqatal) 1Infinitive construct 1
Then thou shalt say, They be thy servant Jacob’s; it is a present sent unto my lord Esau: and, behold, also he is behind us.
And he said, What meanest thou by all this drove which I met? And he said, These are to find grace in the sight of my lord.
And it came to pass by the way in the inn, that the Lord met him, and sought to kill him.
Niph'al
Perfect (qatal) 3
Truth shall spring out of the earth; and righteousness shall look down from heaven.
The rich and poor meet together: the Lord is the maker of them all.
The poor and the deceitful man meet together: the Lord lighteneth both their eyes.
Pi'el
Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night.
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 ›