The first occurrence
“And if you refuse to let them go, behold, I will strike all your borders with frogs.” Exo 8:2
In the Scripture Picture: You shall not stumble (that is, strike your foot against an obstacle.)
The primitive root
Strong’s H5062, נגף nagaph, a primitive root, “to strike or smite.” The ancient pictographs are nun + gimel + pey.
nun נ ן = seed (continue, heir, son)
gimel ג = foot (foot, walk, gather)
pey פ ף = mouth (open, blow, scatter, edge)
The parable being told, is of that which initiates (nun, the seed as the first cause) a response (gimel, as movement toward) resulting in a blow (pey, as an open wound in the body). The pictographs teach that God doesn’t strike people or nations willy nilly, but always as divine discipline or corrective judgment called forth first by sin, to prompt repentance.
For YHVH will pass through to strike the Egyptians; and when He sees the blood on the lintel and on the two doorposts, YHVH will pass over the door and not allow the destroyer to come into your houses to strike you. Exo 12:23
Come, and let us return to YHVH; for He has torn, but He will heal us; He has stricken, but He will bind us up. Hos 6:1
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