נָקַר

na.qarto digHow to read Hebrew
hebrewOld TestamentVerb6 occurrences6 books6 verses

Definition

a primitive root; to bore (penetrate, quarry)
Traditional renderings: dig, pick out, pierce, put (thrust) out.

Usage patterns

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Occurrences

6 total
  1. Numbers 16:14תְּנַקֵּ֖ר · Will you gouge out
    Moreover, you have not brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey or given us an inheritance of fields and vineyards. Will you gouge out the eyes of these men? No, we will not come!”
  2. Judges 16:21וַֽיְנַקְּר֖וּ · gouged out
    Then the Philistines seized him, gouged out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, where he was bound with bronze shackles and forced to grind grain in the prison.
  3. 1 Samuel 11:2בִּנְק֥וֹר · that I may put out
    But Nahash the Ammonite replied, “I will make a treaty with you on one condition, that I may put out everyone’s right eye and bring reproach upon all Israel.”
  4. Job 30:17נִקַּ֣ר · pierces
    Night pierces my bones, and my gnawing pains never rest.
  5. Proverbs 30:17יִקְּר֥וּהָ · pluck it out
    As for the eye that mocks a father and scorns obedience to a mother, may the ravens of the valley pluck it out and young vultures devour it.
  6. Isaiah 51:1נֻקַּרְתֶּֽם׃ · from which you were hewn
    “Listen to Me, you who pursue righteousness, you who seek the LORD: Look to the rock from which you were cut, and to the quarry from which you were hewn.