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# נְזַק

Biblical Aramaic

**suffer injury** — used 4 times in the Aramaic chapters of the Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

suffer injury [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1504/lemma_3a_5e0_5b0_5d6_5b7_5e7/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נְזַק: vb. suffer injury [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1504/lemma_3a_5e0_5b0_5d6_5b7_5e7/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. suffer injury (𝔗 id.; Assyrian nazâḳu, injure; on combin. with Arabic نقص impair, v. BaES 51 FräBAS iii. 81);— Pt. נָזִ֑ק Dn 6:3. injure: Impf. 3 fs. תְּהַנְזִ֑ק (K§ 33, 2) Ezr 4:13 (acc. pers.). Pt. act. f. cstr. מְהַנְזְקַת מַלְכִין v 15; Inf. cstr. לְהַנְזָקַת מ׳ v 22 (Kib. d); M § 48 c -קֻת).

### Jastrow 1903

נְזַק: Ittaf Ithpe. to be hurt, to meet with an accident [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1504/lemma_3a_5e0_5b0_5d6_5b7_5e7/#m3)

**The whole Jastrow entry:** Targ. Ps. XCI, 7 יקרבון למִנְזָק (h. text יגש); a. e. same. Targ. Jer. XII, 14 (h. text נגע); a. e. (הַנְזֵק), אַזֵּיק same. Targ. O. Gen. XXVI, 11. Targ. Ex. XI, 7 לא יַנְזֵק … בלישניה ed. Berl. (ed. Vien. לישניה, corr. acc.; Y. יְהַנְ׳); a. e.—B. Kam. 27ᵇ הוא דא׳ אנפשיה it is he who hurt himself (through his own action); ib. 28ᵃ א׳ נפשיה. Ib. 13ᵇ אַזְּקֵיה תורא דמשאיל וכ׳ the ox of the lender injured that of the borrower. Ib. אזקי ed. (read with Ms. M. אזקיה). B. Mets. 117ᵃ אזלי ומַזְּקֵי וכ׳ the water came down and damaged the property of those living below; a. fr.—Gitt. 53ᵃ לאוזוקי קא מכוין (read: לאַזּוּקֵיה or לאַנְזוּקֵיה, Rashi לצעריה) he has the intention to harm him. , Ittaf. אִיתַּזַּק; Ithpe. אִיתְנְזִיק, אִינְּזִיק to be hurt, to meet with an accident. Targ. II Chr. XXXII, 31. Targ. Job V, 24.—B. Kam. 13ᵇ אילו איתזק מעלמא if he had been hurt through any other cause. Ber. 9ᵇ ואִיתַּזְּקִי and I met with evil; במאי אִיתַּזְּקַת what was the evil thou didst meet with?—Lev. R. s. 24 ולית אתון מִתְנַזְּקִין and you have never been injured. Kidd. 29ᵇ הוו מִיתַּזְּקֵי they used to be hurt (by a demon, v. מַזִּיק); a. fr.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates); Jastrow: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (6 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: injuring (1); injury (1); it will injure (1).

## In the verses

[Ezra 4:22](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.4.22/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.4.22/#tree)

וּזְהִירִ֥ין הֱו֛וֹ שָׁל֖וּ לְמֶעְבַּ֣ד עַל־דְּנָ֑ה לְמָה֙ יִשְׂגֵּ֣א חֲבָלָ֔א לְהַנְזָקַ֖ת מַלְכִֽין׃ס

*Word for word:* and cautious be negligence to do concerning this why? will.it.grow.great the damage to injury kings

*JPS 1917:* And take heed that ye be not slack herein; why should damage grow to the hurt of the kings?'

[Ezra 4:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.4.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.4.13/#tree)

כְּעַ֗ן יְדִ֙יעַ֙ לֶהֱוֵ֣א לְמַלְכָּ֔א דִּ֠י הֵ֣ן קִרְיְתָ֥א דָךְ֙ תִּתְבְּנֵ֔א וְשׁוּרַיָּ֖ה יִֽשְׁתַּכְלְל֑וּן מִנְדָּֽה־בְל֤וֹ וַהֲלָךְ֙ לָ֣א יִנְתְּנ֔וּן וְאַפְּתֹ֥ם מַלְכִ֖ים תְּהַנְזִֽק׃

*Word for word:* now known let.it.be to the king (diy).that if the city this it.will.be.built and the walls they.will.be.finished tribute tax and toll not they.will.give and eventually kings it.will.injure

*JPS 1917:* Be it known now unto the king, that, if this city be builded, and the walls finished, they will not pay tribute, impost, or toll, and so thou wilt endamage the revenue of the kings.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5e0_5b0_5d6_5b7_5e7.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1504/lemma_3a_5e0_5b0_5d6_5b7_5e7/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).