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# נְקָרָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5366

**hole** — 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

hole [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5366/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נְקָרָה: n.f. hole, crevice [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5366/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. hole, crevice;—cstr. נִקְרַת הַצּוּר Ex 33:22; pl. cstr. נִקְרוֹת הַצֻּרִים Is 2:21 (‖ סְעִפֵי הַסְּלָעִים).

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 (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: the cleft (1); the clefts (1).

## In the verses

[Exodus 33:22](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.33.22/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.33.22/#tree)

וְהָיָה֙ בַּעֲבֹ֣ר כְּבֹדִ֔י וְשַׂמְתִּ֖יךָ בְּנִקְרַ֣ת הַצּ֑וּר וְשַׂכֹּתִ֥י כַפִּ֛י עָלֶ֖יךָ עַד־עָבְרִֽי׃

*Word for word:* and it.will.be when passes.by glory my and I will.put.you in the.cleft of the.rock and I.will.hold palm my over you until I have.passed.by

*JPS 1917:* And it shall come to pass, while My glory passeth by, that I will put thee in a cleft of the rock, and will cover thee with My hand until I have passed by.

[Isaiah 2:21](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.2.21/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.2.21/#tree)

לָבוֹא֙ בְּנִקְר֣וֹת הַצֻּרִ֔ים וּבִסְעִפֵ֖י הַסְּלָעִ֑ים מִפְּנֵ֞י פַּ֤חַד יְהוָה֙ וּמֵהֲדַ֣ר גְּאוֹנ֔וֹ בְּקוּמ֖וֹ לַעֲרֹ֥ץ הָאָֽרֶץ׃

*Word for word:* to go in the.clefts of the.rocks and in the.clefts of the.cliffs from before the.dread of.Yahweh and from the.splendor his.majesty his when arises he to terrify the earth

*JPS 1917:* To go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the crevices of the crags, from before the terror of the LORD, and from the glory of His majesty, when he ariseth to shake mightily the earth.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5366.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5366/): 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).