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# נָקַר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5365

**bore** — used 6 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

bore [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5365/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נָקַר: vb. bore, pick, dig [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5365/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. bore, pick, dig (NH id., Aramaic נְקַר, ܢܩܰܪ id.; Arabic نَقَرَ perforate, bore out, hollow out Lane2838; Ethiopic ነቈረ be one-eyed Di645);— Impf. 3 mpl. sf. יִקְּרוּהָ Pr 30:17; Inf. נְקוֹר 1 S 11:2, both of boring, or picking out eye (acc.). Impf. 2 ms. תְּנַקֵּר Nu 16:14 (JE), 3 mpl. וַיְנַקְּרוּ Ju 16:21 both of boring out eyes (acc.); Pf. 3 ms. נִקַּר Jb 30:17 he (or it, i.e. the night) boreth my bones מֵעָלָ֑י (of effects of elephantiasis; Bu reads נֻקַּר). Pf. 2 mpl. נֻקַּרְתֶּם Is 51:1 the quarry (from wh.) ye were digged.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 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: \[which\] you were dug out (1); gouging out (1); it has pierced (1).

## In the verses

[Job 30:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.30.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.30.17/#tree)

לַ֗יְלָה עֲ֭צָמַי נִקַּ֣ר מֵעָלָ֑י וְ֝עֹרְקַ֗י לֹ֣א יִשְׁכָּבֽוּן׃

*Word for word:* night bones my it.has.pierced from on me and my.gnawing \[pains\] not they rest

*JPS 1917:* In the night my bones are pierced, and fall from me, and my sinews take no rest.

[Isaiah 51:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.51.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.51.1/#tree)

שִׁמְע֥וּ אֵלַ֛י רֹ֥דְפֵי צֶ֖דֶק מְבַקְשֵׁ֣י יְהוָ֑ה הַבִּ֙יטוּ֙ אֶל־צ֣וּר חֻצַּבְתֶּ֔ם וְאֶל־מַקֶּ֥בֶת בּ֖וֹר נֻקַּרְתֶּֽם׃

*Word for word:* listen to me O.\[you.who\].pursue (of).righteousness \[you.who\].seek (of).Yahweh look to \[the\].rock \[which\].you.were.dug and to \[the\].excavation of.\[the\].pit \[which\].you.were.dug.out

*JPS 1917:* Hearken to Me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the LORD; look unto the rock whence ye were hewn, and to the hole of the pit whence ye were digged.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5365.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5365/): 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).