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# יְנִיקָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3242

**sucker** — 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

sucker [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3242/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

יְנִיקָה: n.f. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3242/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. id., only pl. sf. יְנִיקוֹתָיו Ez 17:4 of Israel under figure of cedar.

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 (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Ezekiel 17:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.17.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.17.4/#tree)

אֵ֛ת רֹ֥אשׁ יְנִֽיקוֹתָ֖יו קָטָ֑ף וַיְבִיאֵ֙הוּ֙ אֶל־אֶ֣רֶץ כְּנַ֔עַן בְּעִ֥יר רֹכְלִ֖ים שָׂמֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* (et) the.top shoots its it.plucked.off and it brought.it to a.land of.merchant\[s\] in a.city of.traders it placed.it

*JPS 1917:* He cropped off the topmost of the young twigs thereof, and carried it into a land of traffic; he set it in a city of merchants.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3242.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3242/): 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).