yaka · be dislocated

What it means

yaka (יָקַע) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “be dislocated”.

Be put out of joint, be dislocated; also be estranged. In another form, expose a body.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. For a bone to come out of joint.
2. To turn from someone in disgust.
3. To expose someone as punishment, suspended.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• felt aversion ×2
• hang ×2
• they hanged them ×1
• those who had been hanged ×1
• was dislocated ×1
• will be torn away ×1

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Numbers×1
• 2 Samuel×3
• Jeremiah×1
• Ezekiel×2

• Genesis 32:25

  When he saw that he could not prevail against him, he touched the socket of his hip, and the socket of Jacob’s hip was dislocated as he wrestled with him.

• Numbers 25:4

  YHWH said to Moses, “Take all the heads of the people and hang them for YHWH in front of the sun, and the burning anger of YHWH will turn away from Israel.”

• 2 Samuel 21:6

  let seven men of his sons be given to us, and we will hang them for YHWH at Gibeah of Saul, the chosen of YHWH.” The king said, “I will give them.”

• 2 Samuel 21:9

  and he gave them into the hand of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them on the mountain before YHWH. The seven of them fell together; they were put to death in the days of harvest, in the first days, at the beginning of the barley harvest.

• 2 Samuel 21:13

  He brought up from there the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son, and they gathered the bones of those who had been hanged.

• Jeremiah 6:8

  Be corrected, Jerusalem, or my soul will be torn away from you, or I will make you a desolation, a land not inhabited.”

• Ezekiel 23:17

  And the sons of Babylon came to her, to the bed of love, and they defiled her with their prostitution, and she was defiled by them, and her soul felt aversion toward them.

• Ezekiel 23:18

  And she uncovered her prostitutions, and she uncovered her nakedness, and my soul felt aversion toward her, as my soul had felt aversion toward her sister.