Bible Dictionary: Hit

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (pron.) It.

2. (3d pers. sing. pres.) of Hide, contracted from hideth.

3. (imp. & p. p.) of Hit.

4. (v. t.) To reach with a stroke or blow; to strike or touch, usually with force; especially, to reach or touch (an object aimed at).

5. (v. t.) To reach or attain exactly; to meet according to the occasion; to perform successfully; to attain to; to accord with; to be conformable to; to suit.

6. (v. t.) To guess; to light upon or discover.

7. (v. t.) To take up, or replace by a piece belonging to the opposing player; -- said of a single unprotected piece on a point.

8. (v. i.) To meet or come in contact; to strike; to clash; -- followed by against or on.

9. (v. i.) To meet or reach what was aimed at or desired; to succeed, -- often with implied chance, or luck.

10. (n.) A striking against; the collision of one body against another; the stroke that touches anything.

11. (n.) A stroke of success in an enterprise, as by a fortunate chance; as, he made a hit.

12. (n.) A peculiarly apt expression or turn of thought; a phrase which hits the mark; as, a happy hit.

13. (n.) A game won at backgammon after the adversary has removed some of his men. It counts less than a gammon.

14. (n.) A striking of the ball; as, a safe hit; a foul hit; -- sometimes used specifically for a base hit.

Greek

5177. tugchano -- to hit, hit upon, meet, happen
... to hit, hit upon, meet, happen. Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration: tugchano Phonetic
Spelling: (toong-khan'-o) Short Definition: I obtain, I happen, perhaps ...
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3817. paio -- to strike, spec. to sting
... Word Origin a prim. verb Definition to strike, spec. to sting NASB Word
Usage hit (2), stings (1), struck (2). smite, strike. A ...
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2013. epitugchano -- to light upon, ie to obtain
... 2013 (from 1909 , "suitably ," which intensifies 5177, "hit a mark, reach a point") --
properly, by "lighting upon" (falling in line with), happening upon; to ...
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3849. parabiazomai -- to force against (nature)
... 3849 (from 3844 , ", close-beside" and 971 , "to compel by force") -- properly,
using words that powerfully "hit home" and hence are persuasive (successful). ...
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1969. epiplesso -- to strike at, to rebuke (with words)
... 1969 (from 1909 , "upon" intensifying 4141 , "hit") -- properly, to strike in a
vulnerable place; (figuratively) to strike someone with sharp, insensitive ...
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1793. entugchano -- to chance upon, by impl. confer with, by ext. ...
... [J. Thayer documents how this meaning is consistently the same in ancient Greek
writers. The root of 5177 () means "to strike, hit the bulls-eye" ("spot on"). ...
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4649. skopos -- a watchman, a mark (on which to fix the eye)
... 4649 (the root of the English term, "scope," like the zoom-scope on a rifle to hit
the target) -- properly, the "end-marker" of a foot-race; (figuratively) the ...
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1783. enteuxis -- a petition, ie spec. supplication
... specific will. See 1793 (). [The root of this term is 5177 () which means
"to strike, hit the bulls-eye" ("spot on"). Accordingly, it ...
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5299. hupopiazo -- to strike under the eye
... From a compound of hupo and a derivative of optanomai; to hit under the eye (buffet
or disable an antagonist as a pugilist), ie (figuratively) to tease or ...
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2852. kolaphizo -- to strike with the fist
... Cognate: 2852 (from "a blow from the fist") -- properly, to strike with the (literally
"knuckles"); to hit hard "with the knuckles, to make the blow sting and ...
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Strong's Hebrew

4645. miphga -- something hit, a mark
... 4644, 4645. miphga. 4646 . something hit, a mark. Transliteration: miphga
Phonetic Spelling: (mif-gaw') Short Definition: target. ...
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5367. naqash -- to knock, strike, hit, strike or bring down
... 5366, 5367. naqash. 5368 . to knock, strike, hit, strike or bring down.
Transliteration: naqash Phonetic Spelling: (naw-kash') Short Definition: ensnared. ...
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4672. matsa -- to attain to, find
... 1), find (109), finding (2), finds (17), found (231), going (1), had (2), handed
(3), happen (1), happened (2), has (1), have (2), here (1), hit (1), invents (1 ...
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2046. hittuk -- a melting
... 2045, 2046. hittuk. 2047 . a melting. Transliteration: hittuk Phonetic
Spelling: (hit-took') Short Definition: melted. Word Origin ...
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Library

By Divine Inspiration Philosophers Sometimes Hit on the Truth.
... Chapter VI."By Divine Inspiration Philosophers Sometimes Hit on the Truth.
A great crowd of this description rushes on my mind ...
/.../exhortation to the heathen/chapter vi by divine inspiration philosophers.htm

A Comparison with a Man who is Trying to Hit a Mark.
... Cassian's Conferences. I. First Conference of Abbot Moses. Chapter V. A
comparison with a man who is trying to hit a mark. As those ...
/.../cassian/the works of john cassian /chapter v a comparison with.htm

Sacrifice Hits
... I hope that all you boys play baseball, and that many of you are on baseball teams.
If you are, I suppose you know what is meant by a sacrifice hit. ...
/.../chidley/fifty-two story talks to boys and girls/sacrifice hits.htm

The Flag of the World
... Morality did not begin by one man saying to another, "I will not hit you if
you do not hit me"; there is no trace of such a transaction. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/chesterton/orthodoxy/v the flag of the.htm

Hebrews xi. 3, 4
... devil is not so good a marksman, as to be able to reach this height; he sends forth
his darts indeed, for he is void of all shame, yet he does not hit the mark ...
/.../homilies on the gospel of st john and hebrews/homily xxii hebrews xi 3.htm

Against those who Say that it is not Right to Rank the Holy Spirit ...
... But all the apparatus of war has been got ready against us; every intellectual missile
is aimed at us; and now blasphemers' tongues shoot and hit and hit again ...
/.../basil/basil letters and select works/chapter x against those who.htm

The End of Self-Will
... his sons; and the Philistines slew Jonathan, and Abinadab, and Melchi-shua, Saul's
sons.3. And the battle went sore against Saul, and the archers hit him; and ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture f/the end of self-will.htm

Conversations.
... The Sacian opened his eyes, looked around, and coolly asked who it was that he had
hit. ... You hit him.". "Why did he not turn back, then?" asked the Sacian. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/abbott/cyrus the great/chapter xi conversations.htm

Let no one Think However that Herein we Depreciate Marriage as an ...
... He, in fact, who grasps the middle point between doing too little and doing
too much has hit the distinction between vice and virtue. ...
/.../gregory/gregory of nyssa dogmatic treatises etc/chapter viii let no one.htm

A Willing People and an Immutable Leader
... It was not until we had thoroughly looked at the connection of the verse, and tried
to catch the scope of the Psalm, that we thought we had hit upon its meaning ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 2 1856/a willing people and an.htm

Thesaurus

Hit (11 Occurrences)
... pres.) of Hide, contracted from hideth. 3. (imp. & pp) of Hit. ... 11. (n.) A stroke
of success in an enterprise, as by a fortunate chance; as, he made a hit. 12. ...
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Euphrates (36 Occurrences)
... The middle division, extending for about 700 miles to the bitumen wells of Hit,
runs Southeast "through a valley of a few miles in width, which it has eroded ...
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Strike (168 Occurrences)
... 1. (vt) To touch or hit with some force, either with the hand or with an instrument;
to smite; to give a blow to, either with the hand or with any instrument ...
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Hitch (2 Occurrences)
... of something obstructed or impeded. 3. (vt) To hit the legs together in
going, as horses; to interfere. 4. (vt) To hook; to catch ...
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Miss (7 Occurrences)
... 8. (vi) To fail to hit; to fly wide; to deviate from the true direction. ... 12. (n.)
The act of missing; failure to hit, reach, find, obtain, etc. 13. ...
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Ahava (3 Occurrences)
... It has, however, been supposed to be the name of a place (Ezra 8:15) now called
Hit, on the Euphrates, east of Damascus. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. AHAVA ...
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Shoot (51 Occurrences)
... 4. (vi) To strike with anything shot; to hit with a missile; often, to kill or wound
with a firearm; -- followed by a word denoting the person or thing hit, as ...
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Wounded (114 Occurrences)
... (BBE YLT). 1 Samuel 31:3 And the battle went sore against Saul, and the archers
hit him; and he was sore wounded of the archers. (KJV BBE WBS NAS RSV NIV). ...
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Kick (8 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (vt) To strike, thrust, or hit violently with
the foot; as, a horse kicks a groom; a man kicks a dog. ...
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Wipe (24 Occurrences)
... 5. (n.) Act of rubbing, esp. in order to clean. 6. (n.) A blow; a stroke; a hit;
a swipe. 7. (n.) A gibe; a jeer; a severe sarcasm. 8. (n.) A handkerchief. ...
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Bible Concordance

Hit (11 Occurrences)

Matthew 26:68 saying, "Prophesy to us, you Christ! Who hit you?"
(WEB NAS NIV)

Luke 22:64 Having blindfolded him, they struck him on the face and asked him, "Prophesy! Who is the one who struck you?"
(See NAS NIV)

1 Corinthians 9:27 but I hit hard and straight at my own body and lead it off into slavery, lest possibly, after I have been a herald to others, I should myself be rejected.
(WEY)

Exodus 21:22 "If men fight and hurt a pregnant woman so that she gives birth prematurely, and yet no harm follows, he shall be surely fined as much as the woman's husband demands and the judges allow.
(See NIV)

Deuteronomy 19:5 as when a man goes into the forest with his neighbor to chop wood, and his hand fetches a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the head slips from the handle, and lights on his neighbor, so that he dies; he shall flee to one of these cities and live:
(See NIV)

1 Samuel 31:3 And the battle went sore against Saul, and the archers hit him; and he was sore wounded of the archers.
(KJV WBS NAS)

1 Kings 22:34 A certain man drew his bow at random, and struck the king of Israel between the joints of the armor. Therefore he said to the driver of his chariot, "Turn your hand, and carry me out of the battle; for I am severely wounded."
(See NIV)

1 Chronicles 10:3 And the battle went sore against Saul, and the archers hit him, and he was wounded of the archers.
(KJV WBS)

2 Chronicles 18:33 A certain man drew his bow at a venture, and struck the king of Israel between the joints of the armor. Therefore he said to the driver of the chariot, Turn your hand, and carry me out of the army; for I am sore wounded.
(See NIV)

Proverbs 23:35 "They hit me, and I was not hurt! They beat me, and I don't feel it! When will I wake up? I can do it again. I can find another."
(WEB NIV)

Isaiah 58:4 If keeping from food makes you quickly angry, ready for fighting and giving blows with evil hands; your holy days are not such as to make your voice come to my ears on high.
(See RSV)

Subtopics

Hit

Related Terms

Euphrates (36 Occurrences)

Strike (168 Occurrences)

Hitch (2 Occurrences)

Miss (7 Occurrences)

Ahava (3 Occurrences)

Shoot (51 Occurrences)

Wounded (114 Occurrences)

Kick (8 Occurrences)

Wipe (24 Occurrences)