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# נָקַב

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5344

**pierce** — used 16 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

pierce [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5344/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נָקַב: vb. pierce Niph. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5344/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. pierce (NH id.; SI 1.1.4 הנקבה the piercing, boring through; Aramaic נְקַב, ܢܩܰܒ id.; נֶקְבָּא hole, etc.; Sinait. n.pr.m. נקבו Eut 441, 2, נקיבו Eut 99, 2; 153, 2 (Lzb 325.326 Cook 83); Assyrian naḳbu, depth, spring of water; Arabic نَقَبَ perforate, pierce, scrutinize, etc., نَقِيبَةٌ sagacity, etc., نَقِيبٌ leader, chief (one who scrutinizes));— Pf. 3 fs. sf. נְקָבָהּ 2 K 18:21; Is 36:6; 2 ms. נָקַבְתָּ Hb 3:14; Impf. יִנְקָב־ Jb 40:24, וַיִּקֹּב 2 K 12:10; sf. יִקֳּבֶ֫נּוּ Is 62:2; 2 ms. תִּקֹּב Jb 40:26; Imv. ms. נָקְבָה Gn 30:28; Pt. pass. נָקוּב Hg 1:6; pl. cstr. נְקֻבֵי Am 6:1;— pierce, bore, c. acc. 2 K 18:21 = Is 36:6, Hb 3:14 (all in fig.), Jb 40:24, 26; c. acc. cogn. + ב, וְיִּקֹּב חֹר בְּדַלְתּוֹ 2 K 12:10 and he bored a hole in its lid; צְרוֹר נָקוּב Hg 1:6 a bag pierced, i.e. with a hole in it. prick off, designate, wages Gn 30:28 (J), name Is 62:2 (י׳ subj.; cf. Niph.); pt. pass. noted, distinguished Am 6:1. Pf. 3 pl. in phr. נִקְּבוּ בְשֵׁמוֹת (אֲשֶׁר) who were pricked off, designated, by name Nu 1:17; 1 Ch 12:32 (v 31 van d. H), 16:41; 2 Ch 28:15; 31:19, cf. Ezr 8:20.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 16 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: they had been designated (6); it (3); designate (1).

## In the verses

[Job 40:24](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.40.24/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.40.24/#tree)

בְּעֵינָ֥יו יִקָּחֶ֑נּוּ בְּ֝מֽוֹקְשִׁ֗ים יִנְקָב־אָֽף׃

*Word for word:* by eyes its will anyone.take.it? with snares will.anyone.pierce? a.nose

*JPS 1917:* Shall any take him by his eyes, or pierce through his nose with a snare?

[Genesis 30:28](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.30.28/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.30.28/#tree)

וַיֹּאמַ֑ר נָקְבָ֧ה שְׂכָרְךָ֛ עָלַ֖י וְאֶתֵּֽנָה׃

*Word for word:* and he.said designate wage\[s\] your on me and I.will.give.\[it\]

*JPS 1917:* And he said: 'Appoint me thy wages, and I will give it.'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5344.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5344/): 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).