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# נָקַשׁ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5367

**knock** — used 5 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

knock [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5367/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נָקַשׁ: vb. knock, strike hit, strike bring down Niph. Niph. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5367/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. knock, strike, only in specif. sense of hit, strike or bring down (a bird), and only fig. (Ecclus ינקש 41:2c striketh against (ב; margin ונוקש), so נוקש ב 13:2c; NH knock, strike e.g. the knees, or a door (so Hiph.); Aramaic (incl. Biblical Aramaic) נְקַשׁ id., ܢܩܰܫ fixit, impegit, percussit, etc. (Arabic نَقَشَ strike in carve, etc., is loan-wd. Frä194);—the Heb. vb. appar. means bring down with a \[certain kind of\] stick, perhaps like a boomerang, v. descript. and illustr. in WilkinsonManners and Customs of Egypt, (new ed. 1878), ii. 103 f. 109 f. ErmanÆgypten 323 WMMAsien u. Europa 123 f.);— Pt. נוֹקֵשׁ ψ 9:17 he (י׳) striketh down the wicked (so Hup-Now De Che); Vrss Ol Ew Bae Kau We BuhlLex read נוֹקַשׁ, Niph. from יקשׁ. Niph. Impf. 2 ms. תִּנָּקֵשׁ אַחֲרֵיהֶם Dt 12:30 lest thou be thrust (impelled) after them. Impf. יְנַקֵּשׁ ψ 109:11 let the creditor strike at, take aim at (ל); 3 mpl. וַיְנַקְּשׁוּ 38:13 (abs.). Pt. מִתְנַקֵּשׁ בְּנַפְשִׁי 1 S 28:9 why art thou striking at my life?

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 2 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: \[he is\] striking down (1); may he strike (1); setting traps (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 9:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.9.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.9.17/#tree)

נ֤וֹדַ֨ע ׀ יְהוָה֮ מִשְׁפָּ֪ט עָ֫שָׂ֥ה בְּפֹ֣עַל כַּ֭פָּיו נוֹקֵ֣שׁ רָשָׁ֑ע הִגָּי֥וֹן סֶֽלָה׃

*Word for word:* he.has.made.himself.known Yahweh justice he.has.done by the.work his.hands his \[he.is\].striking.down \[the\].wicked Higgaion Selah

*JPS 1917:* The LORD hath made Himself known, He hath executed judgment, the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands.

[Psalms 109:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.109.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.109.11/#tree)

יְנַקֵּ֣שׁ נ֭וֹשֶׁה לְכָל־אֲשֶׁר־ל֑וֹ וְיָבֹ֖זּוּ זָרִ֣ים יְגִיעֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* may.he.strike a.creditor to all that \[belongs\].to him and may.they.plunder strangers property his

*JPS 1917:* Let the creditor distrain all that he hath; and let strangers make spoil of his labour.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5367.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5367/): 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).