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title: עָתַק — move · The Tanakh dictionary
description: עָתַק (6275), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 9 times: move. BDB 1906: vb. move, proceed, advance. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# עָתַק

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«עָתַק» in the Tanakh dictionary: **move** — 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:** 9 times · **Key:** 6275 · **BDB:** עָתֵק

### Glosses

he.moved.on (2); do.they.grow.old? (1); it.has.grown.weak (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

move [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6275/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. move, proceed, advance [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6275/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. move, proceed, advance (NH Hiph.; Assyrian etêḳu as H., also trans. bring, move; Arabic عَتَقَ, عَتُقَ precede, pass forth, become free, grow old; Aramaic ܥܬܶܩ, עֲתַק grow old, Palm. adj. עתק old);— Pf. 3 fs. עָֽתְקָה ψ 6:8, 3 pl. עָֽתְקוּ Jb 21:7; Impf. 3 ms. יֶעְתַּק Jb 14:18; 18:4;— move וְצוּר יֶע׳ מִמְּקֹמוֹ Jb 14:18, so 18:4. advance (in years; Aramaic sense) 21:7 (‖ יִחְיוּ); hence = grow old and weak ψ 6:8 (of eye, ‖ עָֽשְׁשָׁה). Pf. 3 pl. הֶעְתִּיקוּ Jb 32:16 (Gi; van d. H. Baer v 15), Pr 25:1; Impf. 3 ms. וַיַּעְתֵּק Gn 12:8; 26:22; Pt. מַעְתִּיק Jb 9:5;— move forward (sc. tent) = proceed Gn 12:8 (מִשָּׁם, ה loc.), 26:22 (מִשָּׁם); so fig. Jb 32:15 (v. supr.) words have moved away from them (מֵהֶם), but v. prob. gloss (Bu al.). Jb 9:5 he who removeth mountains. very late Pr 25:1 transcribe (remove from one book or roll to another; 𝔊 ἐξεγράψαντο, 𝔙 transtulerunt; so in mediaeval Heb.: ZunzZMG xxv (1871), 447 f. = Ges Schr. iii. 66 f.).

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Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 9 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (5 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «עָתַק» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6275/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Job 21:7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.21.7/)

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מַדּ֣וּעַ רְשָׁעִ֣ים יִחְי֑וּ עָ֝תְק֗וּ גַּם־גָּ֥בְרוּ חָֽיִל׃

*Word for word:* why? wicked.\[people\] do.they.live do.they.grow.old? also do.they.become.strong? strength

*JPS 1917:* Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, wax mighty in power?

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[Job 32:15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.32.15/)

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חַ֭תּוּ לֹא־עָ֣נוּ ע֑וֹד הֶעְתִּ֖יקוּ מֵהֶ֣ם מִלִּֽים׃

*Word for word:* they.are.dismayed not they.have.answered again they.have.moved from them words

*JPS 1917:* They are amazed, they answer no more; words are departed from them.

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