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# נָכֵא

Biblical Hebrew

**a stricken spirit** — used 3 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

a stricken spirit [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/lemma_3a_5e0_5b8_5db_5b5_5d0/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נָכֵא: adj. id. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/lemma_3a_5e0_5b8_5db_5b5_5d0/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj. id., always f. רוּחַ נְכֵאָה a stricken spirit, Pr 15:13; 17:22 (both opp. לֵב שָׂמֵחַ), 18:14.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: stricken (2); \[is\] stricken (1).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 17:22](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.17.22/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.17.22/#tree)

לֵ֣ב שָׂ֭מֵחַ יֵיטִ֣ב גֵּהָ֑ה וְר֥וּחַ נְ֝כֵאָ֗ה תְּיַבֶּשׁ־גָּֽרֶם׃

*Word for word:* a.heart joyful it.makes.good healing and a.spirit stricken it.dries.up \[the\].bone\[s\]

*JPS 1917:* A merry heart is a good medicine; but a broken spirit drieth the bones.

[Proverbs 15:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.15.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.15.13/#tree)

לֵ֣ב שָׂ֭מֵחַ יֵיטִ֣ב פָּנִ֑ים וּבְעַצְּבַת־לֵ֝ב ר֣וּחַ נְכֵאָֽה׃

*Word for word:* a.heart joyful it.makes.good a.face and by sorrow of.heart a.spirit \[is\].stricken

*JPS 1917:* A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance; but by sorrow of heart the spirit is broken.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5e0_5b8_5db_5b5_5d0.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/lemma_3a_5e0_5b8_5db_5b5_5d0/): 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).