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# אָפַק

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H662

**hold** — used 7 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

hold [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/662/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אָפַק: vb. hold, be strong [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/662/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. hold, be strong (so Thes wh. comp. Arabic أَفِقَ excel = multum valuit; MV comp. also فاق )— Pf. 3 pl. הִתְאַפָּ֑קוּ Is 63:15; Inf. לְהִתְאַפֵּק Gn 45:1; Impf. וְיִּתְאַפַּק Gn 43:31; 2 ms. תִּתְאַפַּק Is 64:11; אֶתְאַפָּ֑ק Is 42:14; וָאֶתְאַפַּק 1 S 13:12— compel oneself 1 S 13:12. restrain oneself, refrain Gn 43:31; 45:1 Is 42:14 Est 5:10; of י׳ Is 64:11; of Yahweh’s compassion Is 63:15, מֵעֶיךָ וְרַחֲמֶיךָ אֵלַי הִתְאַפָּ֑קוּ (almost passive).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 7 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: he restrained himself (2); I forced myself (1); I have restrained myself (1).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 64:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.64.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.64.11/#tree)

הַעַל־אֵ֥לֶּה תִתְאַפַּ֖ק יְהוָ֑ה תֶּחֱשֶׁ֥ה וּתְעַנֵּ֖נוּ עַד־מְאֹֽד׃ס

*Word for word:* ? on these.\[things\] will.you.restrain.yourself O.Yahweh will.you.be.silent? and will you.afflict.us? up.to muchness

*JPS 1917:* Wilt Thou refrain Thyself for these things, O LORD? Wilt Thou hold Thy peace, and afflict us very sore?

[Genesis 43:31](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.43.31/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.43.31/#tree)

וַיִּרְחַ֥ץ פָּנָ֖יו וַיֵּצֵ֑א וַיִּ֨תְאַפַּ֔ק וַיֹּ֖אמֶר שִׂ֥ימוּ לָֽחֶם׃

*Word for word:* and he.washed face his and he.came.out and he.restrained.himself and he.said set food

*JPS 1917:* And he washed his face, and came out; and he refrained himself, and said: 'Set on bread.'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/662.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/662/): 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).