Definition

a blow (figuratively, infliction); also (by implication) a spot (concretely, a leprous person or dress)

Etymology

from H5060 (נָגַע);

Where the KJV renders it

• plague
• sore
• stricken
• stripe
• stroke
• wound

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

A deep-dive treatment of this word is in the works. The featured chapter above carries the long form of what this word meant to its first audience.