זָנַק
zânaq · H2187 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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to leap forth
Action by which an animal moves forward suddenly and with force
ExamplesDeuteronomy 33:22 Of Dan he said, “Dan is a lion’s cub; He leaps out from Bashan.”
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Who or what does itSubject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- Not stated: he, she or it 1
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- מִןfrom+ בָּשָׁןBashan 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 3 words
- רָקַד râqad · H7540 · to dance, to skip, to bound
- Both share the sense "leap"; רָקַד (râqad, H7540) has a broader range (dance, jump, leap, skip), but its core overlap with זָנַק (zânaq, H2187) in the leaping sense is genuine.
- פָּזַז pâzaz · H6339 · to refine, to be made agile
- Both denote the same physical action of leaping; פָּזַז (pâzaz, H6339) also carries the additional sense "to be made strong," but its core meaning overlaps directly with זָנַק (zânaq, H2187).
- נָתַר nâthar · H5425 · to give one's hand free play
- Both words can denote leaping or springing; נָתַר (nâthar, H5425) has a broader range, including loosening, detaching and driving asunder, but "leap" is a sense they share.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Leap002002001011
- זָנַק denotes leaping, as Dan is likened to a lion's cub that leaps out from Bashan.
Word family 4 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H2187. zanaq [זָנַק] verb only Pi`el leap (Late Hebrew זִנֵּק cause to spring, spurt;…
[זָנַק] verb only
Pi`el leap (Late Hebrew זִנֵּק cause to spring, spurt; Aramaic throw, shoot, also bind) — Imperfect3masculine singular מִןהַֿבָּשָׁן יְזַנֵּק Deu 33:22 he leapeth forth from Bashan (of Dan under figure of lion's whelp).
זֵעָה see יָזַע.
זְעָוָה see זְוָעָה below זוּעַ.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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