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# יָנַק

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3126

**suck** — used 12 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

suck [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3126/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

יוֹנֵק: n.m. young plant, sapling [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3126/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. young plant, sapling (sucker)—Is 53:2 (‖ שׂרֶשׁ) in sim. of the suffering servant of י׳.

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

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a sucking child (4); sucking child (2); sucking children (2).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 11:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.11.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.11.8/#tree)

וְשִֽׁעֲשַׁ֥ע יוֹנֵ֖ק עַל־חֻ֣ר פָּ֑תֶן וְעַל֙ מְאוּרַ֣ת צִפְעוֹנִ֔י גָּמ֖וּל יָד֥וֹ הָדָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and he.will.play a.sucking.child over \[the\].hole of.a.cobra and over \[the\].nest of.a.viper a.weaned.\[child\] hand his he.will.put.out

*JPS 1917:* And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the basilisk's den.

[Psalms 8:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.8.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.8.3/#tree)

מִפִּ֤י עֽוֹלְלִ֨ים ׀ וְֽיֹנְקִים֮ יִסַּ֪דְתָּ֫ עֹ֥ז לְמַ֥עַן צוֹרְרֶ֑יךָ לְהַשְׁבִּ֥ית א֝וֹיֵ֗ב וּמִתְנַקֵּֽם׃

*Word for word:* from.\[the\] mouth of.children and sucking.children you.have.established strength on.account.of foes your to put.an.end.to an.enemy and an.avenger

*JPS 1917:* Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast Thou founded strength, because of Thine adversaries; that Thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3126.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3126/): 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).