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# זָנַק

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2187

**leap** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

leap [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2187/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

זָנַק: vb. leap [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2187/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. only leap (NH זִנֵּק cause to spring, spurt; Aramaic ܙܢܰܩ throw, shoot, also bind)—Impf. 3 ms. יְזַנֵּק מִן־הַבָּשָׁן Dt 33:22 he leapeth forth from Bashan (of Dan under fig. of lion’s whelp).

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

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: he leaps forth (1).

## In the verses

[Deuteronomy 33:22](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.33.22/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.33.22/#tree)

וּלְדָ֣ן אָמַ֔ר דָּ֖ן גּ֣וּר אַרְיֵ֑ה יְזַנֵּ֖ק מִן־הַבָּשָֽׁן׃

*Word for word:* and of Dan he.said Dan \[is\].a.cub of.a.lion he.leaps.forth from (the) Bashan

*JPS 1917:* And of Dan he said: Dan is a lion's whelp, that leapeth forth from Bashan.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2187.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2187/): 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).