עָתַק
ʻâthaq · H6275 · Hebrew · 9 occurrences
Meanings
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to move
Causative action by which deities cause rocks to move from one place to another
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Action by which humans pack their belongings and move to another location; associated with nomadic life (to move (from one place to another))
ExamplesGenesis 12:8 Then he proceeded from there to the mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east; and there he built an altar to the LORD and called upon the name of the LORD.
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Literally: words move away from someone; hence: state in which humans are unable to find the words to speak ((words) fail)
ExamplesJob 32:15 They are dismayed, they no longer answer; Words have failed them.
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to become weak, to fail
Process by which parts of the body lose strength and therefore become unable to function well; caused by grief or illness
ExamplesPsalm 6:7 My eye has wasted away with grief; It has grown old because of all my enemies.
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to grow old, to reach old age
Process by which humans become advanced in age; seen as a reward for righteous behavior
ExamplesJob 21:7 Why do the wicked still live, Grow old, and also become very powerful?
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to copy, to transmit
Action by which humans copy words from one document into another
ExamplesProverbs 25:1 These also are proverbs of Solomon which the men of Hezekiah, king of Judah, transcribed.
How it’s used In 4 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
9 occurrences in 6 groups
- Not stated: he, she or it 3
- צוּרrock 2
- אִישׁman, person, each 1
- מִלָּהword, words 1
- Not stated: they 1
- Not stated (participle) 1
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- הַרmountain 1
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
6 occurrences in 4 groups
- מִןfrom+ מָקוֹםplace 2
- מִןfrom+ שָׁםthere 2
- מִןfrom+ הֶםthem 1
- בin/on/with+ צָרַרto distress, to be hostile, to bind up 1
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- הָפַךְto turn, to change, to overturn 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 1 word
- זָקֵן zâqên · H2204 · to be old, to become old
- זָקֵן (zâqên, H2204) is the dedicated, most frequent term for aging/being old (27×, single domain); עָתַק (ʻâthaq, H6275) is polysemous (5 domains) but overlaps in expressing the process of becoming old (9× total).
Semantic domains 5 entries
- Move002002001012
- עָתַק describes moving on or being removed from a place, as when Abram moves on to a mountain east of Bethel in Genesis 12:8, Isaac moves away to dig another well in Genesis 26:22, and God removes mountains and moves the rock from its place in Job 9:5, 14:18, and 18:4.
- Know002004002007
- The word's sense of copying out or transcribing carries an association with recording knowledge, though this facet is not directly illustrated among the sampled citations, which show the word's sense of moving or removing.
- Weak002001001069
- עָתַק's sense of waxing old carries an association with diminished strength, though this facet is not directly illustrated among the sampled citations, which show the word's sense of moving or removing.
- Old002001001041
- The word's sense of becoming old is a facet not directly illustrated among the sampled citations, which show the word's sense of moving or removing rather than of aging.
- Write002001001072
- עָתַק's sense of copying out a text carries an association with writing, though this facet is not directly illustrated among the sampled citations, which show the word's sense of moving or removing.
Word family 6 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H6275. atheq [עָתֵק] verb move, proceed, advance (Late Hebrew Hiph`il; Assyrian etêku as…
[עָתֵק] verb move, proceed, advance (Late Hebrew Hiph`il; Assyrian etêku as H., also transitive bring, move; Arabic , precede, pass forth, become free, grow old; Aramaic , עֲתַק grow old, Palmyrene adjective עתק old); —
Qal Perfect3feminine singular עָֽתְקָה Psa 6:8, Psa 6:3plural עָֽתְקוּ Job 21:7; Imperfect3masculine singular יֶעְתַּק Job 14:18; Job 18:4; —
1 move יֶע ׳וְצוּר מִמְּקֹמוֺ Job 14:18, so Job 18:4.
2 advance (in years; Aramaic sense) Job 21:7 (|| יִחְיוּ); hence = grow old and weak Psa 6:8 (of eye, || עָֽשְׁשָׁה).
Hiph`il Perfect3plural הֶעְתִּיקוּ Job 32:16 (Gi; van d. H. Baer Job 32:15), Pro 25:1; Imperfect3masculine singular וַיַּעְתֵּק Gen 12:8; Gen 26:22; Participle מַעְתִּיק Job 9:5; —
1 move forward (that is, tent) = proceed Gen 12:8 (ה מִשָּׁם, locative), Gen 26:22 (מִשָּׁם); so figurative Job 32:16 (see above) words have moved away from them (מֵהֶם), but see probably gloss (Bu and others).
2 Job 9:5 he who removeth mountains.
3 very late Pro 25:1 transcribe (remove from one book or roll to another; ᵐ5 ἐξεγράψαντο, ᵑ9 transtulerunt; so in mediaeval Hebrew: ZunzZMG xxv (1871), 447 f. = Ges. Schr. iii. 66 f.).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 5 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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