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title: יָנַק — suck · The Tanakh dictionary
description: יָנַק (3126), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 12 times: suck. BDB 1906: n.m. young plant, sapling. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# יָנַק

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«יָנַק» in the Tanakh dictionary: **suck** — 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:** 12 times · **Key:** 3126 · **BDB:** יוֹנֵק

### Glosses

a.sucking.child (4); sucking.child (2); sucking.children (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

suck [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3126/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. young plant, sapling [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3126/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. young plant, sapling (sucker)—Is 53:2 (‖ שׂרֶשׁ) in sim. of the suffering servant of י׳.

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

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «יָנַק» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3126/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Isaiah 11:8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.11.8/)

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וְשִֽׁעֲשַׁ֥ע יוֹנֵ֖ק עַל־חֻ֣ר פָּ֑תֶן וְעַל֙ מְאוּרַ֣ת צִפְעוֹנִ֔י גָּמ֖וּל יָד֥וֹ הָדָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and he.will.play a.sucking.child over \[the\].hole of.a.cobra and over \[the\].nest of.a.viper a.weaned.\[child\] hand his he.will.put.out

*JPS 1917:* And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the basilisk's den.

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[Psalms 8:3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.8.3/)

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מִפִּ֤י עֽוֹלְלִ֨ים ׀ וְֽיֹנְקִים֮ יִסַּ֪דְתָּ֫ עֹ֥ז לְמַ֥עַן צוֹרְרֶ֑יךָ לְהַשְׁבִּ֥ית א֝וֹיֵ֗ב וּמִתְנַקֵּֽם׃

*Word for word:* from.\[the\] mouth of.children and sucking.children you.have.established strength on.account.of foes your to put.an.end.to an.enemy and an.avenger

*JPS 1917:* Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast Thou founded strength, because of Thine adversaries; that Thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.

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