pa.gash denotes encountering or coming together, whether people meet, creatures confront one another, or darkness is encountered.

The term most often marks a directed encounter in which a person, divine figure, or animal comes upon another; several verses also portray parties or realities coming together reciprocally. The settings range from planned meetings and face-to-face contact to threatening encounters and the meeting of darkness.

1. Coming upon or encountering someone · dominant

   In 1 Samuel 25:20, the sequential imperfect occurs as David and his men come down toward the woman, and the APB renders the encounter as David and his men coming “to meet her.” In Exodus 4:27, Aaron goes into the wilderness and meets Moses; Jeremiah 41:6 similarly places Ishmael going out from Mizpah to meet a group. The same kind of encounter can be threatening: in Exodus 4:24 the LORD meets him and seeks to kill him, and in Hosea 13:8 the speaker says, “I will meet them like a bear robbed of her cubs.”

   1 Samuel 25:20Exodus 4:24Exodus 4:27Genesis 33:8Jeremiah 41:6Hosea 13:8
2. Coming together or encountering mutually · common

   The Niphal perfect plural forms in Proverbs 22:2 and Proverbs 29:13 describe contrasting kinds of people who meet together. Isaiah 34:14 has wild beasts meeting wild beasts, while Job 5:14 says that people “meet darkness” in daytime. In Psalm 85:11, the supplied form occurs in a poetic clause where truth springs from the land and righteousness looks down from heaven; the APB does not explicitly display the encounter.

   Job 5:14Isaiah 34:14Proverbs 22:2Proverbs 29:13Psalm 85:11

In the Anselm Project Bible: Across the clearer encounter clauses, the APB commonly uses “meet” or “met,” as in Exodus 4:27, Jeremiah 41:6, and Proverbs 22:2. It also presents hostile scenes through “meet” in Exodus 4:24 and Hosea 13:8; Psalm 85:11 does not explicitly render the supplied form in its translation, so the English is not consistently one-to-one.