Word

יָנַק

yânaq · H3243 · Hebrew · 22 occurrences

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Meanings

to suck

Action by which newborn children drink milk from their mother's breasts

Examples
Job 3:12 “Why were the knees there in front of me, And why the breasts, that I would nurse?
Isaiah 60:16 “You will also suck the milk of nations, And suck the breast of kings; Then you will know that I, the LORD, am your Savior And your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.
Isaiah 66:11 So that you may nurse and be satisfied with her comforting breasts, So that you may drink fully and be delighted with her bountiful breasts.”
to nurse

Causative action by which a human or animal mother feeds her newborn child from her breasts

Examples
Genesis 21:7 And she said, “Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have given birth to a son in his old age.”
Genesis 32:15 thirty milking camels and their colts, forty cows and ten bulls, and twenty female donkeys and ten male donkeys.
Exodus 2:7 Then his sister said to Pharaoh’s daughter, “Shall I go and call a woman for you who is nursing from the Hebrew women, so that she may nurse the child for you?”
to suck

Literally: to suck; action by which humans ingest food

Examples
Job 20:16 “He sucks the poison of cobras; The viper’s tongue kills him.
to acquire

Literally: to suck; hence: action by which humans acquire possessions

Examples
Deuteronomy 33:19 “They will call peoples to the mountain; There they will offer righteous sacrifices; For they will draw out the abundance of the seas, And the hidden treasures of the sand.”
to provide

Literally: to nurse; hence: causative action by which deities provide humans with goods

Examples
Deuteronomy 32:13 “He had him ride on the high places of the earth, And he ate the produce of the field; And He had him suck honey from the rock, And oil from the flinty rock,
nurse

A woman whose responsibility it is to breastfeed someone else's baby

Examples
Genesis 24:59 So they sent away their sister Rebekah and her nurse with Abraham’s servant and his men.
Genesis 35:8 Now Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died, and she was buried below Bethel under the oak; and it was named Allon-bacuth.
Exodus 2:7 Then his sister said to Pharaoh’s daughter, “Shall I go and call a woman for you who is nursing from the Hebrew women, so that she may nurse the child for you?”

How it’s used In 8 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

15 occurrences in 7 groups

Not stated: he, she or it 5
Not stated: you (one person) 3
Not stated: you (more than one) 2
Not stated: they 2
שָׂרָהprincess 1
Not stated: I 1

What it acts on, or what is saidObject

12 occurrences in 9 groups

בֵּןson 3
וֹhim 3
Other words · 7 groups that occur once or twice (7) 7

Second objectAs in “call him Lord”

1 occurrences in 1 groups

דְּבַשׁhoney 1

With prepositionsPrepositional phrases

5 occurrences in 5 groups

מִןfrom+ סֶלַעrock, cliff 1
מִןfrom+ שַׁדbreast 1
עַדto, as far as, until+ גָּמַלto repay, to wean 1
לto/for+ נִיme 1
לto/for+ ךְyou 1

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

5 occurrences in 4 groups

הוּhis 2
רִבְקָהRebecca 1
ךְyour 1
הּher 1

Named alongside itApposition

2 occurrences in 2 groups

דְּבּוֹרָהbee 1
אִשָּׁהwoman, wife 1

What is done to itIt is the object

2 occurrences in 2 groups

נָתַןto give, to put, to set 1
שָׁלַחto send, to send away 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

1 occurrences in 1 groups

לto/for 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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Semantic domains 4 entries

Ingest002001001025: יָנַק means to nurse or suckle, as Sarah is said to nurse children in her old age, to everyone's astonishment (Genesis 21:7).
People001001003: יָנַק ties directly to the human infant being nursed and the person who nurses, illustrated at Genesis 21:7 ("she has nursed children") and Genesis 35:8 ("the nurse of Rebekah").
Possess002003002019: This entry carries no independent "Possess" sense of its own; every genuine tagged occurrence of יָנַק (Genesis 21:7, 32:16, 35:8, Exodus 2:7) concerns nursing an infant or milking an animal, not possession as such. The domain is bundle-shared with a related sense.
Professions001001003009: יָנַק names the professional role of a wet nurse, as Deborah, Rebekah's nurse, is identified by this vocation (Genesis 24:59; 35:8).

Word family 4 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

יָנַקyânaq · H3243יוֹנֵק yôwnêq · H3126 · shoot · 12×יוֹנֶקֶת yôwneqeth · H3127 · shoot · 6×יְנִיקָה yᵉnîyqâh · H3242 · shoot, twig · 1×

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H3243. yanaq [יָנַק] verb suck (Late Hebrew id.; Aramaic יְנַק, , and derivatives;…

H3243. yanaq
[יָנַק] verb suck (Late Hebrew id.; Aramaic יְנַק, , and derivatives; Assyrian êni‡u, suck, SASmAssurbanipal i, Gloss, mušeni‡tu, nurse, JenZA, 1886, 402) —
Qal Perfect וְיָנַקְתְּ consecutive Isa 60:16; וִינַקְתֶּם Isa 66:12; Imperfect יִינָ֑ק Job 20:16; אִינָ֑ק Job 3:12; תִּינָ֑קִי Isa 60:16; יִינָ֑קוּ Deu 33:19; תִּינְקוּ Isa 66:11; Participle יוֺנֵק Deu 32:25 Deu 32:7t.; יֹנֵק Num 11:12; יוֺנְקִים Psa 8:3; יוֺנְקֵי Joe 2:16; — suck, of infant at mother's breast, absolute Job 3:12; metaphor of abundance and honour of Jerusalem in future, Isa 66:11 absolute; followed by accusative of breast Isa 60:16; accusative of milk Isa 60:16; Isa 66:12; followed by accusative מְּתָנִים ראֹשׁ Job 20:16 of punishment of wicked; participle followed by accusative אִמִּי שְׁדֵי יוֺנֵק Son 8:1; construct יוֺנְקֵישָֿׁדַיִם Joe 2:16; elsewhere as subt., suckling, babe Num 11:12; Deu 32:25 (opposed to שֵׂיבָה אִישׁ); || עוֺלֵל 1Sa 15:3; 1Sa 22:19; Psa 8:3; Jer 44:7; Lam 2:11; || עוֺלָל Lam 4:4; compare Joe 2:16; || גָּמוּל Isa 11:8; — on Isa 53:2 see יוֺנֵק below
Hiph`il Perfect הֵינִ֫יקָה Gen 21:7; הֵנִ֫יקוּ Lam 4:3; Imperfect suffix וַיֵּנִקֵ֫הוּ Deu 32:13; Deu 32:3feminine singular תֵּינִק Exo 2:7; וַתֵּ֫נֶק 1Sa 1:23; וַתְּנִיקֵ֫הוּ Exo 2:9; Imperative feminine singular suffix הֵינִקִ֫הוּ Exo 2:9; Infinitive לְהֵינִיק 1Ki 3:21; Participle מֵינֶ֫קֶת Exo 2:7; construct id. Gen 35:8; מֵנִקְתּוֺ 2Ki 11:2; מֵינִקְתּוֺ2Ch 22:11; מֵנִקְתָּהּ Gen 24:59; מֵינִיקוֺת Gen 32:16; מֵינִיקִתַיִךְ Isa 49:23; — give suck to, nurse, followed by accusative Gen 21:7; 1Ki 3:21; Exo 2:7, Exo 2:9; 1Sa 1:23; cause to suck honey, figurative Deu 32:13 (2 accusative); of animals Lam 4:3 followed by accusative; participle feminine = nursing, מֵינֶקֶת אִשָּׁה Exo 2:7 literally a nursing woman, a nurse; ׳מ alone as substantive = nurse Gen 24:59 (J), Gen 35:8 (E; דְּבֹרָה), 2Ki 11:2; 2Ki 11:2Che 2Ki 22:11; metaphor Isa 49:23; of camels מֵינִיקוֺת גְּמַלִּים Gen 32:16.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 4 entries

People0 occurrences Professions6 occurrences Ingest14 occurrences Possess2 occurrences

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