נֶשֶׁק
nesheq · H5402 · Hebrew · 10 occurrences
A word for 2 things
- WeaponWarfare57 verses
- Armory, arsenalMunicipal structures4 verses
Meanings
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weapons, arms
Class of tools designed to attack and inflict bodily harm on someone else or to defend oneself against similar attacks from other people
Examples1 Kings 10:25 And they were bringing, everyone, a gift: articles of silver and gold, garments, weapons, balsam oil, horses, and mules, so much year by year.
2 Kings 10:2 “And now, when this letter comes to you, since your master’s sons are with you, as well as the chariots and horses, and a fortified city and the weapons,
Isaiah 22:8 And He removed the defense of Judah. On that day you depended on the weapons of the house of the forest,
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armory
Building where weapons are stored
ExamplesNehemiah 3:19 And next to him Ezer the son of Jeshua, the official of Mizpah, repaired another section in front of the ascent of the armory at the Angle.
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day of battle, time of battle
Literally: day of weapons; hence: time when an armed conflict takes place
ExamplesPsalm 140:7 “GOD the Lord, the strength of my salvation, You have covered my head on the day of battle.
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pleasant scents
Substances with a fragrant aroma; regarded as valuable and therefore suitable as a gift
Examples1 Kings 10:25 And they were bringing, everyone, a gift: articles of silver and gold, garments, weapons, balsam oil, horses, and mules, so much year by year.
2 Chronicles 9:24 They were bringing, each of them his gift: articles of silver and gold, garments, weapons, balsam oil, horses, and mules, so much year by year.
How it’s used In 5 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
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- בַּיִתhouse, household 1
- בַּרְזֶלiron 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- קָרָאto meet, to happen 1
What it is said to bePredicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- כֶםyou 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
4 occurrences in 3 groups
- בin/on/with 3
- אֵלto, toward 2
- מִןfrom 2
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- יוֹםday, time 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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In the other Testament 1 word
- ὅπλον hóplon · G3696 · tool, instrument, means
- Greek ὅπλον denotes weapons or implements of war, serving as the standard Septuagint rendering for Hebrew נֶשֶׁק's concrete sense of military weaponry and armaments.
Semantic domains 4 entries
- Weapons001003001001020
- The word names weaponry or arms, as gifts brought to Solomon include weapons alongside garments and precious goods (1 Kings 10:25, 2 Chronicles 9:24), tying the word to military equipment.
- Buildings001003002001
- The word is also used for the armory itself, the building where weapons are stored, as Nehemiah's wall repair runs in front of the ascent of the armory (Nehemiah 3:19), tying the word to this structure.
- Time002002002010
- The word can be used in a construct sense tied to the duration or occasion of battle, a broader temporal sense than the physical-weapon citations sampled here.
- Spices001002005014
- The word appears in a list alongside balsam oil and other tribute goods (1 Kings 10:25), an association with traded aromatic goods broader than its core weaponry sense.
Word family 4 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H5402. nesheq נֵ֫שֶׁק נֶ֫שֶׁק, noun [masculine] equipment, weapons (collective) armoury;…
נֵ֫שֶׁק נֶ֫שֶׁק, noun [masculine] equipment, weapons (collective) armoury; — absolute נֶ֫שֶׁק Eze 39:9 Eze 39:2t., נֵ֫שֶׁק 1Ki 10:25; 2Ch 9:24, נָָֽשֶׁק 2Ki 10:2 2Ki 10:2t., construct ׳נֶ Isa 22:8, ׳נֵ Job 20:24; —
1 equipment, weapons 1Ki 10:25; 2Ki 10:2; Isa 22:8; 2Ch 9:24; Eze 39:9 (general term, followed by specific), Eze 39:10; ׳נ בַרְזֶל Job 20:24 (נְחשֶׁת קֶשֶׁת); נָָֽשֶׁק יוֺם Psa 140:8 i.e. day of battle; so ׳נ alone Job 39:21.
2 apparently armoury Neh 3:19.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 4 entries
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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