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# נֹקֶף

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5363

**striking off** — used 2 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

striking off [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5363/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נֹ֫קֶף: striking off [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5363/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] striking off;—only cstr. כְּנֹקֶף זַיִת as (at) the striking of olive-trees Is 17:6; 24:13 (sim. of fewness of people after י׳’s judgment).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 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, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: beating (2).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 24:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.24.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.24.13/#tree)

כִּ֣י כֹ֥ה יִהְיֶ֛ה בְּקֶ֥רֶב הָאָ֖רֶץ בְּת֣וֹךְ הָֽעַמִּ֑ים כְּנֹ֣קֶף זַ֔יִת כְּעוֹלֵלֹ֖ת אִם־כָּלָ֥ה בָצִֽיר׃

*Word for word:* (dm) thus it.will.be in the.midst of the.earth among the peoples like.\[the\] beating of.an.olive.tree like gleanings if it.has.come.to.an.end \[the\].grape.harvest

*JPS 1917:* For thus shall it be in the midst of the earth, among the peoples, as at the beating of an olive-tree, as at the gleanings when the vintage is done.

[Isaiah 17:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.17.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.17.6/#tree)

וְנִשְׁאַר־בּ֤וֹ עֽוֹלֵלֹת֙ כְּנֹ֣קֶף זַ֔יִת שְׁנַ֧יִם שְׁלֹשָׁ֛ה גַּרְגְּרִ֖ים בְּרֹ֣אשׁ אָמִ֑יר אַרְבָּעָ֣ה חֲמִשָּׁ֗ה בִּסְעִפֶ֙יהָ֙ פֹּֽרִיָּ֔ה נְאֻם־יְהוָ֖ה אֱלֹהֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃ס

*Word for word:* and it.will.be.left in it gleanings like.\[the\] beating of.an.olive.tree two three olives at.\[the\] top of.\[the\].top four five on branches its fruit-bearing the.utterance of.Yahweh the.God of.Israel

*JPS 1917:* Yet there shall be left therein gleanings, as at the beating of an olive-tree, two or three berries in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in the branches of the fruitful tree, saith the LORD, the God of Israel.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5363.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5363/): 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).