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# נָקַף

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5362

**strike off** — 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

strike off [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5362/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נָקַף: vb. strike off Niph. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5362/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. strike off (NH strike, wound, Aramaic נְקַף id.; Arabic نَقَفَ fregit caput, ut cerebrum appareret; Vulg. Ar. snap with the finger (Dozyii, 716); Assyrian naḳpu prob. = mutilated; Ethiopic ነቀፈ peel, flay Di649);— Pf. 3 ms. וְנִקַּף סִבְכֵי הַיַּ֫עַר consec. Is 10:34 and the thickets of the forest shall be struck away (on sg. vb. cf. Ges§ 145 o DaSynt. § 113 b; or read נִקְּפוּ;—form poss. Pi., but cf. Di Du CheHpt). Pf. 3 pl. וְאַחַר עוֹרִי נִקְּפוּ־זֹאת Jb 19:26 after my skin, which they (Ges§ 144 g) have struck off (alluding to ravages of his disease)—this! but text dub.; Bu נִקַּף כָּזֹאת (Niph.) which has been thus struck off.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (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: he will cut down (1); people have struck off (1); you will round off (1).

## In the verses

[Leviticus 19:27](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.19.27/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.19.27/#tree)

לֹ֣א תַקִּ֔פוּ פְּאַ֖ת רֹאשְׁכֶ֑ם וְלֹ֣א תַשְׁחִ֔ית אֵ֖ת פְּאַ֥ת זְקָנֶֽךָ׃

*Word for word:* not you.will.round.off the.side your.head your and not you.will.trim (et) the.side your.beard your

*JPS 1917:* Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard.

[Job 19:26](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.19.26/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.19.26/#tree)

וְאַחַ֣ר ע֭וֹרִֽי נִקְּפוּ־זֹ֑את וּ֝מִבְּשָׂרִ֗י אֶֽחֱזֶ֥ה אֱלֽוֹהַּ׃

*Word for word:* and after skin my people.have.struck.off this and from flesh my I.will.see God

*JPS 1917:* And when after my skin this is destroyed, then without my flesh shall I see God;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5362.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5362/): 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).