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title: נָקַף — strike off · The Tanakh dictionary
description: נָקַף (5362), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 3 times: strike off. BDB 1906: vb. strike off Niph. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# נָקַף

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«נָקַף» in the Tanakh dictionary: **strike off** — 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:** 5362 · **BDB:** נָקַף

### Glosses

he.will.cut.down (1); people.have.struck.off (1); you.will.round.off (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

strike off [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5362/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. strike off Niph. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5362/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. strike off (NH strike, wound, Aramaic נְקַף id.; Arabic نَقَفَ fregit caput, ut cerebrum appareret; Vulg. Ar. snap with the finger (Dozyii, 716); Assyrian naḳpu prob. = mutilated; Ethiopic ነቀፈ peel, flay Di649);— Pf. 3 ms. וְנִקַּף סִבְכֵי הַיַּ֫עַר consec. Is 10:34 and the thickets of the forest shall be struck away (on sg. vb. cf. Ges§ 145 o DaSynt. § 113 b; or read נִקְּפוּ;—form poss. Pi., but cf. Di Du CheHpt). Pf. 3 pl. וְאַחַר עוֹרִי נִקְּפוּ־זֹאת Jb 19:26 after my skin, which they (Ges§ 144 g) have struck off (alluding to ravages of his disease)—this! but text dub.; Bu נִקַּף כָּזֹאת (Niph.) which has been thus struck off.

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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 (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «נָקַף» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5362/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Leviticus 19:27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.19.27/)

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לֹ֣א תַקִּ֔פוּ פְּאַ֖ת רֹאשְׁכֶ֑ם וְלֹ֣א תַשְׁחִ֔ית אֵ֖ת פְּאַ֥ת זְקָנֶֽךָ׃

*Word for word:* not you.will.round.off the.side your.head your and not you.will.trim (et) the.side your.beard your

*JPS 1917:* Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard.

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[Job 19:26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.19.26/)

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וְאַחַ֣ר ע֭וֹרִֽי נִקְּפוּ־זֹ֑את וּ֝מִבְּשָׂרִ֗י אֶֽחֱזֶ֥ה אֱלֽוֹהַּ׃

*Word for word:* and after skin my people.have.struck.off this and from flesh my I.will.see God

*JPS 1917:* And when after my skin this is destroyed, then without my flesh shall I see God;

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