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# נֶזֶק

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5143

**injury** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

injury [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5143/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נֶ֫זֶק: injury, damage [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5143/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] injury, damage (Aramaic loan-word v. Biblical Aramaic);—only cstr. בְּנֶזֶק הַמֶּלֶךְ Est 7:4 at the price of injury to the king.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 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: the injury (1).

## In the verses

[Esther 7:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.7.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.7.4/#tree)

כִּ֤י נִמְכַּ֙רְנוּ֙ אֲנִ֣י וְעַמִּ֔י לְהַשְׁמִ֖יד לַהֲר֣וֹג וּלְאַבֵּ֑ד וְ֠אִלּוּ לַעֲבָדִ֨ים וְלִשְׁפָח֤וֹת נִמְכַּ֙רְנוּ֙ הֶחֱרַ֔שְׁתִּי כִּ֣י אֵ֥ין הַצָּ֛ר שֹׁוֶ֖ה בְּנֵ֥זֶק הַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃ס

*Word for word:* (dm) we.have.been.sold I and people my to annihilate to kill and to destroy and if to male.slaves and to female.slaves we.had.been.sold I.kept.quiet (dm) not the distress \[is\].equal for the.injury of the.king

*JPS 1917:* for we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for bondmen and bondwomen, I had held my peace, for the adversary is not worthy that the king be endamaged.'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5143.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5143/): 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).