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# עָתַק

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6275

**move** — used 9 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

move [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6275/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עָתֵק: vb. move, proceed, advance [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6275/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. move, proceed, advance (NH Hiph.; Assyrian etêḳu as H., also trans. bring, move; Arabic عَتَقَ, عَتُقَ precede, pass forth, become free, grow old; Aramaic ܥܬܶܩ, עֲתַק grow old, Palm. adj. עתק old);— Pf. 3 fs. עָֽתְקָה ψ 6:8, 3 pl. עָֽתְקוּ Jb 21:7; Impf. 3 ms. יֶעְתַּק Jb 14:18; 18:4;— move וְצוּר יֶע׳ מִמְּקֹמוֹ Jb 14:18, so 18:4. advance (in years; Aramaic sense) 21:7 (‖ יִחְיוּ); hence = grow old and weak ψ 6:8 (of eye, ‖ עָֽשְׁשָׁה). Pf. 3 pl. הֶעְתִּיקוּ Jb 32:16 (Gi; van d. H. Baer v 15), Pr 25:1; Impf. 3 ms. וַיַּעְתֵּק Gn 12:8; 26:22; Pt. מַעְתִּיק Jb 9:5;— move forward (sc. tent) = proceed Gn 12:8 (מִשָּׁם, ה loc.), 26:22 (מִשָּׁם); so fig. Jb 32:15 (v. supr.) words have moved away from them (מֵהֶם), but v. prob. gloss (Bu al.). Jb 9:5 he who removeth mountains. very late Pr 25:1 transcribe (remove from one book or roll to another; 𝔊 ἐξεγράψαντο, 𝔙 transtulerunt; so in mediaeval Heb.: ZunzZMG xxv (1871), 447 f. = Ges Schr. iii. 66 f.).

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 9 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: he moved on (2); do they grow old? (1); it has grown weak (1).

## In the verses

[Job 21:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.21.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.21.7/#tree)

מַדּ֣וּעַ רְשָׁעִ֣ים יִחְי֑וּ עָ֝תְק֗וּ גַּם־גָּ֥בְרוּ חָֽיִל׃

*Word for word:* why? wicked.\[people\] do.they.live do.they.grow.old? also do.they.become.strong? strength

*JPS 1917:* Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, wax mighty in power?

[Job 32:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.32.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.32.15/#tree)

חַ֭תּוּ לֹא־עָ֣נוּ ע֑וֹד הֶעְתִּ֖יקוּ מֵהֶ֣ם מִלִּֽים׃

*Word for word:* they.are.dismayed not they.have.answered again they.have.moved from them words

*JPS 1917:* They are amazed, they answer no more; words are departed from them.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6275.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6275/): 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).