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title: חָנַךְ — train up · The Tanakh dictionary
description: חָנַךְ (2596), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 5 times: train up. BDB 1906: vb. train up, dedicate. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# חָנַךְ

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«חָנַךְ» in the Tanakh dictionary: **train up** — 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:** 5 times · **Key:** 2596 · **BDB:** חָנַךְ

### Glosses

he (2); they.dedicated (2); train (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

train up [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2596/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. train up, dedicate [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2596/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. train up, dedicate (cf. Arabic حَنَكَ appar. denom. from حَنَكٌ, rub palate of child with chewed dates, Lane659a, of midwife rub palate of new-born child with oil, etc., before it begins to suck, Dozyii, 332; also make experienced, submissive, etc. (as one does a horse by a rope in its mouth) Lane; v. also WeSkizzen iii, 154; NH חִנֵּךְ accustom; Aramaic חֲנַךְ dedicate, חַנֵּיךְ as NH; Ethiopic ii. ሐነከ perceive, understand (Di108, ሕንካ initiatio is loan-word Id.ib.))— Pf. 3 ms. sf. חֲנָכוֹ Dt 20:5; Impf. 3 ms. sf. יַחְנְכֶנּוּ Dt 20:5, 3 mpl. וַיַּחְנְכוּ 1 K 8:63; 2 Ch 7:5; Imv. חֲנֹךְ Pr 22:6;— train, train up a (the) youth (לַנַּעַר) Pr 22:6 (cf. NH חִנּוּךְ). dedicate, of formal opening of a new house Dt 20:5(×2); dedicate, consecrate temple 1 K 8:63 = 2 Ch 7:5 (all sq. acc.)

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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 (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «חָנַךְ» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2596/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Proverbs 22:6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.22.6/)

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חֲנֹ֣ךְ לַ֭נַּעַר עַל־פִּ֣י דַרְכּ֑וֹ גַּ֥ם כִּֽי־יַ֝זְקִ֗ין לֹֽא־יָס֥וּר מִמֶּֽנָּה׃

*Word for word:* train (to the youth on the.mouth his.way his also (dm) he.will.be.old not he.will.turn.aside from it

*JPS 1917:* Train up a child in the way he should go, and even when he is old, he will not depart from it.

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[2 Chronicles 7:5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.7.5/)

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וַיִּזְבַּ֞ח הַמֶּ֣לֶךְ שְׁלֹמֹה֮ אֶת־זֶ֣בַח הַבָּקָ֗ר עֶשְׂרִ֤ים וּשְׁנַ֙יִם֙ אֶ֔לֶף וְצֹ֕אן מֵאָ֥ה וְעֶשְׂרִ֖ים אָ֑לֶף וַֽיַּחְנְכוּ֙ אֶת־בֵּ֣ית הָֽאֱלֹהִ֔ים הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ וְכָל־הָעָֽם׃

*Word for word:* and he.sacrificed the king Solomon (et) the.sacrifice of.(the) cattle twenty and two thousand and sheep one.hundred and twenty thousand and they.dedicated (et) the.house of.(the) God the king and all the people

*JPS 1917:* And king Solomon offered a sacrifice of twenty and two thousand oxen, and a hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the people dedicated the house of God.

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