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title: נָהַק — bray · The Tanakh dictionary
description: נָהַק (5101), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 2 times: bray. BDB 1906: vb. bray, cry. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# נָהַק

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«נָהַק» in the Tanakh dictionary: **bray** — 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:** 2 times · **Key:** 5101 · **BDB:** נָהַק

### Glosses

it.bray? (1); they.bray (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

bray [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5101/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. bray, cry [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5101/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. bray, cry (NH id.; Arabic نَهَقَ bray (of ass); Aramaic נְהַק cry out (of men), נְהִיקָא braying);— Impf. יִנְהַק Jb 6:5 of wild ass; יִנְהָ֑קוּ 30:7 of cries of destitute outcasts.

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

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «נָהַק» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5101/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Job 30:7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.30.7/)

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בֵּין־שִׂיחִ֥ים יִנְהָ֑קוּ תַּ֖חַת חָר֣וּל יְסֻפָּֽחוּ׃

*Word for word:* between bushes they.bray under weed\[s\] they.are.joined.together

*JPS 1917:* Among the bushes they bray; under the nettles they are gathered together.

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[Job 6:5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.6.5/)

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הֲיִֽנְהַק־פֶּ֥רֶא עֲלֵי־דֶ֑שֶׁא אִ֥ם יִגְעֶה־שּׁ֝֗וֹר עַל־בְּלִילֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* does it.bray? a.wild.donkey on fresh.grass or? does.it.low an.ox on fodder its

*JPS 1917:* Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder?

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