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title: נָעַר — shake · The Tanakh dictionary
description: נָעַר (5287), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 11 times: shake. BDB 1906: vb. shake, shake off. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# נָעַר

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«נָעַר» in the Tanakh dictionary: **shake** — 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:** 11 times · **Key:** 5287 · **BDB:** נָעַר²

### Glosses

he.shook.off (2); I.have.been.shaken.off (1); I.shook.out (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

shake [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5287/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. shake, shake off [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5287/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. shake, shake out or off (NH נָעַר shake, stir up, especially Pi. Niph.; 𝔗 נְעֹרֶת tow (v. infr.); Arabic نَغِرَ, نَغَرَ boil, be in violent commotion, be very angry);— Pf. 1 s. נָעַ֫רְתִּי Ne 5:13; Pt. act. נֹעֵר Is 33:9, 15; pass. Ne 5:13;—shake out, to shew emptiness, חָצְנִי נ׳ Ne 5:13 (symbol.), נ׳ כַּפָּיו מִתְּמֹךְ בַּשֹּׁחַד Is 33:15; pt. shaken out, emptied נ׳ וָרֵק Ne 5:13 (i.e. stripped of possessions); shake off (leaves) Is 33:9 (cf. ‖ cl.). Pf. 1 s. נִנְעַ֫רְתִּי כָאַרְבֶּה ψ 109:23 I am shaken out like a locust (from fold of a garment; sim. of perishing helplessly); cf. Impf. 3 mpl. וְיִנָּֽעֲרוּ רְשָׁעִים מִמֶּ֑נָּה Jb 38:13 to seize the corners of the earth that wicked men may be shaken out of it; 1 s. אִנָּעֵר Ju 16:20 I will shake myself (free? cf. Hithp. and GFM). Impf. 3 ms. juss. יִנַעֵר Ne 5:13 so may God shake utterly out every man from (מִן) his house, etc.; וַיְנַעֵר Ex 14:27 and י׳ shook off the Egyptian into (ב) the sea, = Pf. נִעֵר ψ 136:15 (also c. acc. + ב). Imv. fs. הִתְנַעֲרִי מֵעָפָר Is 52:2 shake thyself (free), etc. (of personif. Zion).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 9 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (7 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (6 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «נָעַר» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5287/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Psalms 109:23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.109.23/)

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כְּצֵל־כִּנְטוֹת֥וֹ נֶהֱלָ֑כְתִּי נִ֝נְעַ֗רְתִּי כָּֽאַרְבֶּֽה׃

*Word for word:* like a.shadow just as it.stretches.out I.have.vanished I.have.been.shaken.off like (the) locust

*JPS 1917:* I am gone like the shadow when it lengtheneth; I am shaken off as the locust.

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[Job 38:13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.38.13/)

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לֶ֭אֱחֹז בְּכַנְפ֣וֹת הָאָ֑רֶץ וְיִנָּעֲר֖וּ רְשָׁעִ֣יםמִמֶּֽנָּה׃

*Word for word:* to take.hold on the.corners of the.earth and they.are.shaken wicked.\[people\] from it

*JPS 1917:* That it might take hold of the ends of the earth, and the wicked be shaken out of it?

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