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title: נֶזֶק — injury · The Tanakh dictionary
description: נֶזֶק (5143), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: injury. BDB 1906: injury, damage. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# נֶזֶק

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«נֶזֶק» in the Tanakh dictionary: **injury** — 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:** 5143 · **BDB:** נֶ֫זֶק

### Glosses

the.injury (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

injury [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5143/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

injury, damage [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5143/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] injury, damage (Aramaic loan-word v. Biblical Aramaic);—only cstr. בְּנֶזֶק הַמֶּלֶךְ Est 7:4 at the price of injury to the king.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 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 «נֶזֶק» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5143/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Esther 7:4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.7.4/)

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כִּ֤י נִמְכַּ֙רְנוּ֙ אֲנִ֣י וְעַמִּ֔י לְהַשְׁמִ֖יד לַהֲר֣וֹג וּלְאַבֵּ֑ד וְ֠אִלּוּ לַעֲבָדִ֨ים וְלִשְׁפָח֤וֹת נִמְכַּ֙רְנוּ֙ הֶחֱרַ֔שְׁתִּי כִּ֣י אֵ֥ין הַצָּ֛ר שֹׁוֶ֖ה בְּנֵ֥זֶק הַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃ס

*Word for word:* (dm) we.have.been.sold I and people my to annihilate to kill and to destroy and if to male.slaves and to female.slaves we.had.been.sold I.kept.quiet (dm) not the distress \[is\].equal for the.injury of the.king

*JPS 1917:* for we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for bondmen and bondwomen, I had held my peace, for the adversary is not worthy that the king be endamaged.'

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