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Strong's #5365 - נָקַר
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- to bore, pick, dig, pick out
- (Qal) to bore, pick, dig
- (Piel) to bore out
- (Pual) to be dug out
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2436) rqn (נקר NQR) AC: Pierce CO: Fissure AB: ?: [from: rk- as a digging]
V) rqn (נקר NQR) - Pierce: KJV (6): (vf: Paal, Pual, Piel) put out, thrust, pick pierce, dig - Strongs: H5365 (נָקַר)
Nf1) erqn (נקרה NQRH) - Fissure: As a piercing in a rock. KJV (2): cleft, clift - Strongs: H5366 (נְקָרָה)
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
Qal Imperfect 3 masculine plural suffix יִקְּרוּהָ Proverbs 30:17; Infinitive נְקוֺר 1 Samuel 11:3, both of boring, or picking out eye (accusative).
Pi`el Imperfect. 2 masculine singular תְּנַקֵּר Numbers 16:14 (JE), 3 masculine plural וַיְנַקְּרוּ Judges 16:21 both of boring out eyes (accusative); Perfect 3 masculine singular נִקַּר Job 30:17 he (or it, i.e. the night) boreth my bones מֵעָלָ֑י (of effects of elephantiasis; Bu reads נֻקַּר).
Pu`al Perfect 2 masculine plural נֻקַּרְתֶּם Isaiah 51:1 the quarry (from which) ye were digged.
נָקַר fut. יִקֹּר to bore, to pierce, especially used of boring out any one’s eye, 1 Samuel 11:2; Proverbs 30:17, “the ravens of the valley shall pick it (the eye) out;” Numbers 16:14; Judges 16:21 [Both Piel].
(Arab. id.; Eth. ነቋረ፡ to be blind of one eye, ነቀለ፡ to pull out.)
Piel id. Job 30:17, לַיְלָה עֲצָמִי נִקַּר “the night pierces my bones,” i.e. by night my bones are, as it were, pierced with pain; compare Job 3:3.
Pual, to be dug out, Isaiah 51:1, “the quarry (whence) נֻקַּרְתֶּם ye were digged;” metaph. used of the ancestors of a nation. Hence