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# נָשַׁק

Biblical Hebrew

**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/lemma_3a_5e0_5b8_5e9_5b7_5c1_5e7/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נָשַׁק²: vb. handle be equipped with [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/lemma_3a_5e0_5b8_5e9_5b7_5c1_5e7/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. exact meaning uncertain; prob. either handle, or be equipped with (cf. perhaps Arabic نَسَقَ, etc., sub I. נשׁק);—only Pt. pl. cstr. נֹשְׁקֵי:—נ׳ קֶשֶׁת 1 Ch 12:2 equipped with the bow, so 2 Ch 17:17 (+ מָגֵן); נ׳ רוֹמֵי קֶשֶׁת ψ 78:9 is difficult, ר׳ appos. of נ׳ according to Hup-Now Bae al. (Ges§ 130 e); del. רוֹמֵי as explan. gloss Hup Hi Che Kau; del. ver. as gloss Hup Kau Bae.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 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: \[men\] equipped (1); \[they were\] equipped (1); \[were\] equipped (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 78:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.78.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.78.9/#tree)

בְּֽנֵי־אֶפְרַ֗יִם נוֹשְׁקֵ֥י רוֹמֵי־קָ֑שֶׁת הָ֝פְכ֗וּ בְּי֣וֹם קְרָֽב׃

*Word for word:* the.people of.Ephraim \[were\].equipped of.shooters of.a.bow they.turned.back on.\[the\] day of.battle

*JPS 1917:* The children of Ephraim were as archers handling the bow, that turned back in the day of battle.

[2 Chronicles 17:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.17.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.17.17/#tree)

וּמִ֨ן־בִּנְיָמִ֔ן גִּבּ֥וֹר חַ֖יִל אֶלְיָדָ֑ע וְעִמּ֛וֹ נֹֽשְׁקֵי־קֶ֥שֶׁת וּמָגֵ֖ן מָאתַ֥יִם אָֽלֶף׃ס

*Word for word:* and from Benjamin a.mighty.\[man\] of.strength Eliada and.\[were\] with him \[men\].equipped of.bow and shield two.hundred thousand

*JPS 1917:* and of Benjamin: Eliada a mighty man of valour, and with him two hundred thousand armed with bow and shield;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5e0_5b8_5e9_5b7_5c1_5e7.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/lemma_3a_5e0_5b8_5e9_5b7_5c1_5e7/): 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).