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# נָקַע

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5361

**be alienated** — 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

be alienated [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5361/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נָקַע: vb. be severed alienated, estranged [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5361/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. be \[severed, fig.\] alienated, estranged (cf. Arabic نَقَعَ split, rend, sacrifice RSSem. i. 471 f.; 2d ed. 491; Ethiopic ነቅዐ split up, open (intrans.) Di647; NH נֶקַע cleft, Syriac ܢܶܩܥܳܐ id.);— Pf. 3 fs. נָֽקְעָה נַפְשִׁי מֵעַל Ez 23:18 my soul was estranged from her sister (‖ יָקַע), cf. v 22, 28 (both c. מִן).

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 (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 had been alienated (1); it has been alienated (1); it was alienated (1).

## In the verses

[Ezekiel 23:28](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.23.28/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.23.28/#tree)

כִּ֣י כֹ֤ה אָמַר֙ אֲדֹנָ֣י יְהוִ֔ה הִנְנִי֙ נֹֽתְנָ֔ךְ בְּיַ֖ד אֲשֶׁ֣ר שָׂנֵ֑את בְּיַ֛ד אֲשֶׁר־נָקְעָ֥ה נַפְשֵׁ֖ךְ מֵהֶֽם׃

*Word for word:* (dm) thus he.says Lord \[the\] Yahweh here I \[am\].about to.give.you in.\[the\] hand of.\[those\].whom you.hate in.\[the\] hand of.\[those\].whom it.has.been.alienated self your from them

*JPS 1917:* For thus saith the Lord GOD: Behold, I will deliver thee into the hand of them whom thou hatest, into the hand of them from whom thy soul is alienated;

[Ezekiel 23:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.23.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.23.18/#tree)

וַתְּגַל֙ תַּזְנוּתֶ֔יהָ וַתְּגַ֖ל אֶת־עֶרְוָתָ֑הּ וַתֵּ֤קַע נַפְשִׁי֙ מֵֽעָלֶ֔יהָ כַּאֲשֶׁ֛ר נָקְעָ֥ה נַפְשִׁ֖י מֵעַ֥ל אֲחוֹתָֽהּ׃

*Word for word:* and she.uncovered prostitution(s) her and she.uncovered (et) nakedness her and it.was.alienated self my from with her just as it.had.been.alienated self my from with sister her

*JPS 1917:* So she uncovered her harlotries, and uncovered her nakedness; then My soul was alienated from her, like as My soul was alienated from her sister.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5361.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5361/): 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).