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# מֵינֶקֶת

Biblical Hebrew

**Hiph.** — used 6 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

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מֵינֶ֫קֶת: Hiph. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b5_5d9_5e0_5b6_5e7_5b6_5ea/#m1)

**The whole BDB entry:** v. ינק Hiph.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech not compared, 0 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, only a cross-reference (3 candidates); OSHB: none

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: nurse (3); a wet nurse (1); nurses (1).

## In the verses

[Genesis 24:59](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.24.59/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.24.59/#tree)

וַֽיְשַׁלְּח֛וּ אֶת־רִבְקָ֥ה אֲחֹתָ֖ם וְאֶת־מֵנִקְתָּ֑הּ וְאֶת־עֶ֥בֶד אַבְרָהָ֖ם וְאֶת־אֲנָשָֽׁיו׃

*Word for word:* and they.sent.away (et) Rebekah sister their and (et) nurse her and (et) the.servant of.Abraham and (et) men his

*JPS 1917:* And they sent away Rebekah their sister, and her nurse, and Abraham's servant, and his men.

[Genesis 35:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.35.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.35.8/#tree)

וַתָּ֤מָת דְּבֹרָה֙ מֵינֶ֣קֶת רִבְקָ֔ה וַתִּקָּבֵ֛ר מִתַּ֥חַת לְבֵֽית־אֵ֖לבֵֽית־אֵ֖ל תַּ֣חַת הָֽאַלּ֑וֹן וַיִּקְרָ֥א שְׁמ֖וֹ אַלּ֥וֹן בָּכֽוּת׃פ

*Word for word:* and she.died Deborah the.nurse of.Rebekah and she.was.buried from under to Bethel Bethel under the oak and someone.called name its Oak of.Weeping

*JPS 1917:* And Deborah Rebekah's nurse died, and she was buried below Beth-el under the oak; and the name of it was called Allon-bacuth.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b5_5d9_5e0_5b6_5e7_5b6_5ea/): 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).