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title: עוּק — totter · The Tanakh dictionary
description: עוּק (5781), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 2 times: totter. BDB 1906: vb. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# עוּק

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«עוּק» in the Tanakh dictionary: **totter** — 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:** 2 times · **Key:** 5781 · **BDB:** עוּק

### Glosses

\[am\].about.to.make.totter (1); it.totters (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

totter [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5781/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5781/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. dub. (if correct, Aramaic form (cf. עוּק, ܥܳܩ) for צוּק press, so Thes al.);—only Impf. 3 fs. תָּעִיק Am 2:13, Pt. מֵעִיק v 13; but read prob. תָּפוּק, מֵפִיק totter, cause tottering Hi We Now Dr.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 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 «עוּק» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5781/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Amos 2:13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/AMO.2.13/)

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הִנֵּ֛ה אָנֹכִ֥י מֵעִ֖יק תַּחְתֵּיכֶ֑ם כַּאֲשֶׁ֤ר תָּעִיק֙ הָעֲגָלָ֔ה הַֽמְלֵאָ֥ה לָ֖הּ עָמִֽיר׃

*Word for word:* here! I \[am\].about.to.make.totter under you just as it.totters the cart (the) full (for itself cut.grain

*JPS 1917:* Behold, I will make it creak under you, as a cart creaketh that is full of sheaves.

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