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title: יְנִיקָה — sucker · The Tanakh dictionary
description: יְנִיקָה (3242), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: sucker. BDB 1906: n.f. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# יְנִיקָה

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«יְנִיקָה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **sucker** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 3242 · **BDB:** יְנִיקָה

### Glosses

shoots (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

sucker [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3242/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3242/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. id., only pl. sf. יְנִיקוֹתָיו Ez 17:4 of Israel under figure of cedar.

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

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «יְנִיקָה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3242/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Ezekiel 17:4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.17.4/)

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אֵ֛ת רֹ֥אשׁ יְנִֽיקוֹתָ֖יו קָטָ֑ף וַיְבִיאֵ֙הוּ֙ אֶל־אֶ֣רֶץ כְּנַ֔עַן בְּעִ֥יר רֹכְלִ֖ים שָׂמֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* (et) the.top shoots its it.plucked.off and it brought.it to a.land of.merchant\[s\] in a.city of.traders it placed.it

*JPS 1917:* He cropped off the topmost of the young twigs thereof, and carried it into a land of traffic; he set it in a city of merchants.

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