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# נָקִיק

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5357

**cleft** — 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

cleft [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5357/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נָקִיק: n.m. cleft [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5357/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. cleft of rock;—only cstr.: sg. נְקִיק הַסָּ֑לַע Je 13:4; pl. נְקִיקֵי הַסְּלָעִים Is 7:19 (‖ נַחֲלֵי הַבַּתּוֹת), Je 16:16.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 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 clefts (2); cleft (1).

## In the verses

[Jeremiah 13:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.13.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.13.4/#tree)

קַ֧ח אֶת־הָאֵז֛וֹר אֲשֶׁ֥ר קָנִ֖יתָ אֲשֶׁ֣ר עַל־מָתְנֶ֑יךָ וְקוּם֙ לֵ֣ךְ פְּרָ֔תָה וְטָמְנֵ֥הוּ שָׁ֖ם בִּנְקִ֥יק הַסָּֽלַע׃

*Word for word:* take (et) the loincloth which you.bought which \[is\].on loins your and arise go to Perath and hide it there in.(the) cleft of the.rock

*JPS 1917:* 'Take the girdle that thou hast gotten, which is upon thy loins, and arise, go to Perath, and hide it there in a cleft of the rock.'

[Isaiah 7:19](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.7.19/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.7.19/#tree)

וּבָ֨אוּ וְנָח֤וּ כֻלָּם֙ בְּנַחֲלֵ֣י הַבַּתּ֔וֹת וּבִנְקִיקֵ֖י הַסְּלָעִ֑ים וּבְכֹל֙ הַנַּ֣עֲצוּצִ֔ים וּבְכֹ֖ל הַנַּהֲלֹלִֽים׃

*Word for word:* and they.will.come and they.will.settle of.them all in the.wadis of the.cliffs and in the.clefts of the.rocks and on all the thornbushes and in all the watering-places

*JPS 1917:* And they shall come, and shall rest all of them in the rugged valleys, and in the holes of the rocks, and upon all thorns, and upon all brambles.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5357.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5357/): 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).