נָקִיק
nâqîyq · H5357 · Hebrew · 3 occurrences
Meanings
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cleft, crevice
A narrow opening or long, narrow crack in a rock; regarded as a suitable place for hiding
ExamplesIsaiah 7:19 They will all come and settle on the steep ravines, on the ledges of the cliffs, on all the thorn bushes, and on all the watering places.
Jeremiah 13:4 “Take the undergarment that you bought, which is around your waist, and arise, go to the Euphrates and hide it there in a crevice of the rock.”
Jeremiah 16:16 “Behold, I am going to send for many fishermen,” declares the LORD, “and they will fish for them; and afterward I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them from every mountain and every hill and from the clefts of the rocks.
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
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
3 occurrences in 1 groups
- סֶלַעrock, cliff 3
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
3 occurrences in 2 groups
- בin/on/with 3
- מִןfrom 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 2 words
- חוֹר chôwr · H2356 · hole, den, socket
- Hebrew noun denoting a hole or cavity, functionally interchangeable with נָקִיק for describing openings or holes in rocks and walls
- מְעָרָה mᵉʻârâh · H4631 · cave
- Hebrew noun for a cave or cavity in rock, overlaps semantically with נָקִיק when describing natural hollows or openings in rock formations
In the other Testament 1 word
- ὀπή opḗ · G3692 · hole, opening
- Greek noun denoting a hole or opening, standard translation equivalent for Hebrew נָקִיק in contexts describing cavities or holes in rocks/structures
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Landforms001002003
- The word names a cleft or hole in a rock, used of doves nesting in the clefts of the rocks (Song of Solomon 2:14) and holes where people hide from judgment (Isaiah 2:19-21), tying the word to this rocky terrain feature.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H5357. naqiq [נָקִיק] noun masculine cleft of rock; — only construct: singular הַסָּ֑לַע…
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
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