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# נָהַק

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5101

**bray** — 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

bray [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5101/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נָהַק: vb. bray, cry [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5101/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. bray, cry (NH id.; Arabic نَهَقَ bray (of ass); Aramaic נְהַק cry out (of men), נְהִיקָא braying);— Impf. יִנְהַק Jb 6:5 of wild ass; יִנְהָ֑קוּ 30:7 of cries of destitute outcasts.

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: it bray? (1); they bray (1).

## In the verses

[Job 30:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.30.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.30.7/#tree)

בֵּין־שִׂיחִ֥ים יִנְהָ֑קוּ תַּ֖חַת חָר֣וּל יְסֻפָּֽחוּ׃

*Word for word:* between bushes they.bray under weed\[s\] they.are.joined.together

*JPS 1917:* Among the bushes they bray; under the nettles they are gathered together.

[Job 6:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.6.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.6.5/#tree)

הֲיִֽנְהַק־פֶּ֥רֶא עֲלֵי־דֶ֑שֶׁא אִ֥ם יִגְעֶה־שּׁ֝֗וֹר עַל־בְּלִילֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* does it.bray? a.wild.donkey on fresh.grass or? does.it.low an.ox on fodder its

*JPS 1917:* Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder?

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5101.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5101/): 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).