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title: נָקִיק — cleft · The Tanakh dictionary
description: נָקִיק (5357), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 3 times: cleft. BDB 1906: n.m. cleft. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# נָקִיק

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«נָקִיק» in the Tanakh dictionary: **cleft** — 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:** 3 times · **Key:** 5357 · **BDB:** נָקִיק

### Glosses

the.clefts (2); cleft (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

cleft [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5357/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. cleft [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5357/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. cleft of rock;—only cstr.: sg. נְקִיק הַסָּ֑לַע Je 13:4; pl. נְקִיקֵי הַסְּלָעִים Is 7:19 (‖ נַחֲלֵי הַבַּתּוֹת), Je 16:16.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 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 «נָקִיק» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5357/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Jeremiah 13:4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.13.4/)

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קַ֧ח אֶת־הָאֵז֛וֹר אֲשֶׁ֥ר קָנִ֖יתָ אֲשֶׁ֣ר עַל־מָתְנֶ֑יךָ וְקוּם֙ לֵ֣ךְ פְּרָ֔תָה וְטָמְנֵ֥הוּ שָׁ֖ם בִּנְקִ֥יק הַסָּֽלַע׃

*Word for word:* take (et) the loincloth which you.bought which \[is\].on loins your and arise go to Perath and hide it there in.(the) cleft of the.rock

*JPS 1917:* 'Take the girdle that thou hast gotten, which is upon thy loins, and arise, go to Perath, and hide it there in a cleft of the rock.'

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[Isaiah 7:19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.7.19/)

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וּבָ֨אוּ וְנָח֤וּ כֻלָּם֙ בְּנַחֲלֵ֣י הַבַּתּ֔וֹת וּבִנְקִיקֵ֖י הַסְּלָעִ֑ים וּבְכֹל֙ הַנַּ֣עֲצוּצִ֔ים וּבְכֹ֖ל הַנַּהֲלֹלִֽים׃

*Word for word:* and they.will.come and they.will.settle of.them all in the.wadis of the.cliffs and in the.clefts of the.rocks and on all the thornbushes and in all the watering-places

*JPS 1917:* And they shall come, and shall rest all of them in the rugged valleys, and in the holes of the rocks, and upon all thorns, and upon all brambles.

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