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# נשׂק

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5400

**handle** — 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

handle [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5400/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שָׂלַק: vb. kindle, burn [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5400/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. kindle, burn (Ecclus 43:4margin הִסִּיק, v 21, 23 הִשִּׂיק, burn; Aramaic (also Biblical Aramaic) סְלַק ascend, Aph. cause to go up (in flame), offer sacrifice; ܣܠܶܩ, Palm. סלק, ascend);— Pf. 3 fs. אֵשׁ נִשְּׂקָה בְיַעֲקֹב ψ 78:21 a fire was kindled against Jacob. make a fire, burn: Pf. 3 pl. consec. וְהִשִּׂיקוּ, c. ב rei Ez 39:9; Impf. 3 ms. abs. יַשִּׂיק Is 44:15 (both ‖ בִּעֵר).

Why these entries: BDB: another headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: he kindles a fire (1); it was kindled (1); they will kindle a fire (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 78:21](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.78.21/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.78.21/#tree)

לָכֵ֤ן ׀ שָׁמַ֥ע יְהוָ֗ה וַֽיִּתְעַבָּ֥ר וְ֭אֵשׁ נִשְּׂקָ֣ה בְיַעֲקֹ֑ב וְגַם־אַ֝֗ף עָלָ֥ה בְיִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃

*Word for word:* therefore he.heard Yahweh and he.was.furious and fire it.was.kindled in Jacob and also anger it.went.up in Israel

*JPS 1917:* Therefore the LORD heard, and was wroth; and a fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also went up against Israel;

[Isaiah 44:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.44.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.44.15/#tree)

וְהָיָ֤ה לְאָדָם֙ לְבָעֵ֔ר וַיִּקַּ֤ח מֵהֶם֙ וַיָּ֔חָם אַף־יַשִּׂ֖יק וְאָ֣פָה לָ֑חֶם אַף־יִפְעַל־אֵל֙ וַיִּשְׁתָּ֔חוּ עָשָׂ֥הוּ פֶ֖סֶל וַיִּסְגָּד־לָֽמוֹ׃

*Word for word:* and it.belongs to anyone to burn and he.took some of.them and he.became.warm also he.kindles.a.fire and he.bakes bread also he.makes a.god and he.bowed.down he makes.it an.idol and he.prostrated.himself to it

*JPS 1917:* Then a man useth it for fuel; and he taketh thereof, and warmeth himself; yea, he kindleth it, and baketh bread; yea, he maketh a god, and worshippeth it; he maketh it a graven image, and falleth down thereto.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5400.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5400/): 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).