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# נָאַק

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5008

**groan** — used 2 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

groan [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5008/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נָאַק: vb. groan [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5008/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. groan (Aramaic נְאַק (rare));— Pf. וְנָאַק consec. Ez 30:24 c. acc. cogn. fig. of Pharaoh before king of Babylon (emend. Co v. נַאֲקָה Impf. Jb 24:12 וִנְאָ֑קוּ.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 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: he will groan (1); they groan (1).

## In the verses

[Job 24:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.24.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.24.12/#tree)

מֵ֘עִ֤יר מְתִ֨ים ׀ יִנְאָ֗קוּ וְנֶֽפֶשׁ־חֲלָלִ֥ים תְּשַׁוֵּ֑עַ וֶ֝אֱל֗וֹהַּ לֹא־יָשִׂ֥ים תִּפְלָֽה׃

*Word for word:* from.\[the\] city men they.groan and.\[the\] throat of.\[those\].fatally.wounded it.cries.for.help and God not he.puts offensiveness

*JPS 1917:* From out of the populous city men groan, and the soul of the wounded crieth out; yet God imputeth it not for unseemliness.

[Ezekiel 30:24](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.30.24/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.30.24/#tree)

וְחִזַּקְתִּ֗י אֶת־זְרֹעוֹת֙ מֶ֣לֶךְ בָּבֶ֔ל וְנָתַתִּ֥י אֶת־חַרְבִּ֖י בְּיָד֑וֹ וְשָׁבַרְתִּי֙ אֶת־זְרֹע֣וֹת פַּרְעֹ֔ה וְנָאַ֛ק נַאֲק֥וֹת חָלָ֖ל לְפָנָֽיו׃

*Word for word:* and I.will.make.strong (et) the.arms of.the.king of.Babylon and I.will.put (et) sword my in hand his and I.will.break (et) the.arms of.Pharaoh and he.will.groan \[the\].groans of.\[one\].fatally.wounded before him

*JPS 1917:* And I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and put My sword in his hand; but I will break the arms of Pharaoh, and he shall groan before him with the groanings of a deadly wounded man.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5008.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5008/): 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).