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# לָקַק

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3952

**lap** — 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

lap [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3952/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

לָקַק: vb. lap, lick Qal [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3952/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. lap, lick (NH id., Pi.; Arabic لَقَّ lick, lap of dog (Wahrm));— Pf. 3 ms. לָֽקְקוּ 1 K 21:19; Impf. 3 ms. יָלֹק Ju 7:5(×2); 3 mpl. יָלֹ֫קּוּ 1 K 21:19, וַיָּלֹ֫קּוּ 1 K 22:38;—lap, יָלֹק בִּלְשׁוֹנוֹ מִן־הַמַּיִם Ju 7:5, like a dog v 5 (abs.); of dogs lapping up blood (acc.), 1 K 21:19(×2); 22:38. Pt. pl. c. art. הַמְֿלַקְקִים Ju 7:6 (בְּיָדָם אֶל־פִּיהֶם is erron. gloss, v. GFM), v 7; in both = lap, lap up (= Qal v 5).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 1 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, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: they lapped up (2); \[those who\] lapped (1); he will lap up (1).

## In the verses

[1 Kings 22:38](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.22.38/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.22.38/#tree)

וַיִּשְׁטֹ֨ף אֶת־הָרֶ֜כֶב עַ֣ל ׀ בְּרֵכַ֣ת שֹׁמְר֗וֹן וַיָּלֹ֤קּוּ הַכְּלָבִים֙ אֶת־דָּמ֔וֹ וְהַזֹּנ֖וֹת רָחָ֑צוּ כִּדְבַ֥ר יְהוָ֖ה אֲשֶׁ֥ר דִּבֵּֽר׃

*Word for word:* and someone.washed.off (et) the chariot at the.pool of.Samaria and they.lapped.up the dogs (et) blood his and the prostitutes they.bathed according to.the.word of.Yahweh which he.had.spoken

*JPS 1917:* And they washed the chariot by the pool of Samaria; and the dogs licked up his blood; the harlots also washed themselves there; according unto the word of the LORD which He spoke.

[Judges 7:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.7.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.7.6/#tree)

וַיְהִ֗י מִסְפַּ֞ר הַֽמֲלַקְקִ֤ים בְּיָדָם֙ אֶל־פִּיהֶ֔ם שְׁלֹ֥שׁ מֵא֖וֹת אִ֑ישׁ וְכֹל֙ יֶ֣תֶר הָעָ֔ם כָּרְע֥וּ עַל־בִּרְכֵיהֶ֖ם לִשְׁתּ֥וֹת מָֽיִם׃ס

*Word for word:* and it.was the.number of \[those.who\].lapped with hand their to mouth their three hundred(s) man and all the.remainder of the.people they.bowed.down on knees their to drink water

*JPS 1917:* And the number of them that lapped, putting their hand to their mouth, was three hundred men; but all the rest of the people bowed down upon their knees to drink water.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3952.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3952/): 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).