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title: נְזַק — suffer injury · The Biblical Aramaic dictionary
description: נְזַק (lemma:נְזַק), a word of Biblical Aramaic, used 4 times: suffer injury. BDB 1906: vb. suffer injury. With 2 verses in Aramaic, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# נְזַק

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«נְזַק» in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary: **suffer injury** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 4 times · **Key:** lemma:נְזַק · **BDB:** נְזַק

### Glosses

injuring (1); injury (1); it.will.injure (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

suffer injury [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1504/lemma_3a_5e0_5b0_5d6_5b7_5e7/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. suffer injury [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1504/lemma_3a_5e0_5b0_5d6_5b7_5e7/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. suffer injury (𝔗 id.; Assyrian nazâḳu, injure; on combin. with Arabic نقص impair, v. BaES 51 FräBAS iii. 81);— Pt. נָזִ֑ק Dn 6:3. injure: Impf. 3 fs. תְּהַנְזִ֑ק (K§ 33, 2) Ezr 4:13 (acc. pers.). Pt. act. f. cstr. מְהַנְזְקַת מַלְכִין v 15; Inf. cstr. לְהַנְזָקַת מ׳ v 22 (Kib. d); M § 48 c -קֻת).

### Jastrow 1903

נְזַק: Ittaf Ithpe. to be hurt, to meet with an accident [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1504/lemma_3a_5e0_5b0_5d6_5b7_5e7/#m3)

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**The whole Jastrow entry:** Targ. Ps. XCI, 7 יקרבון למִנְזָק (h. text יגש); a. e. same. Targ. Jer. XII, 14 (h. text נגע); a. e. (הַנְזֵק), אַזֵּיק same. Targ. O. Gen. XXVI, 11. Targ. Ex. XI, 7 לא יַנְזֵק … בלישניה ed. Berl. (ed. Vien. לישניה, corr. acc.; Y. יְהַנְ׳); a. e.—B. Kam. 27ᵇ הוא דא׳ אנפשיה it is he who hurt himself (through his own action); ib. 28ᵃ א׳ נפשיה. Ib. 13ᵇ אַזְּקֵיה תורא דמשאיל וכ׳ the ox of the lender injured that of the borrower. Ib. אזקי ed. (read with Ms. M. אזקיה). B. Mets. 117ᵃ אזלי ומַזְּקֵי וכ׳ the water came down and damaged the property of those living below; a. fr.—Gitt. 53ᵃ לאוזוקי קא מכוין (read: לאַזּוּקֵיה or לאַנְזוּקֵיה, Rashi לצעריה) he has the intention to harm him. , Ittaf. אִיתַּזַּק; Ithpe. אִיתְנְזִיק, אִינְּזִיק to be hurt, to meet with an accident. Targ. II Chr. XXXII, 31. Targ. Job V, 24.—B. Kam. 13ᵇ אילו איתזק מעלמא if he had been hurt through any other cause. Ber. 9ᵇ ואִיתַּזְּקִי and I met with evil; במאי אִיתַּזְּקַת what was the evil thou didst meet with?—Lev. R. s. 24 ולית אתון מִתְנַזְּקִין and you have never been injured. Kidd. 29ᵇ הוו מִיתַּזְּקֵי they used to be hurt (by a demon, v. מַזִּיק); a. fr.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates); Jastrow: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (6 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «נְזַק» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1504/lemma_3a_5e0_5b0_5d6_5b7_5e7/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Ezra 4:22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.4.22/)

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וּזְהִירִ֥ין הֱו֛וֹ שָׁל֖וּ לְמֶעְבַּ֣ד עַל־דְּנָ֑ה לְמָה֙ יִשְׂגֵּ֣א חֲבָלָ֔א לְהַנְזָקַ֖ת מַלְכִֽין׃ס

*Word for word:* and cautious be negligence to do concerning this why? will.it.grow.great the damage to injury kings

*JPS 1917:* And take heed that ye be not slack herein; why should damage grow to the hurt of the kings?'

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[Ezra 4:13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.4.13/)

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כְּעַ֗ן יְדִ֙יעַ֙ לֶהֱוֵ֣א לְמַלְכָּ֔א דִּ֠י הֵ֣ן קִרְיְתָ֥א דָךְ֙ תִּתְבְּנֵ֔א וְשׁוּרַיָּ֖ה יִֽשְׁתַּכְלְל֑וּן מִנְדָּֽה־בְל֤וֹ וַהֲלָךְ֙ לָ֣א יִנְתְּנ֔וּן וְאַפְּתֹ֥ם מַלְכִ֖ים תְּהַנְזִֽק׃

*Word for word:* now known let.it.be to the king (diy).that if the city this it.will.be.built and the walls they.will.be.finished tribute tax and toll not they.will.give and eventually kings it.will.injure

*JPS 1917:* Be it known now unto the king, that, if this city be builded, and the walls finished, they will not pay tribute, impost, or toll, and so thou wilt endamage the revenue of the kings.

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