lakak · lap, lick

What it means

lakak (לָקַק) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “lap, lick”.

Lap: take up water with the tongue, as a dog does; lick.

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. To take water with the tongue like a dog.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• laps ×2
• licked up ×2
• who lapped ×2
• will lick up ×1

Where it appears

• Judges×4
• 1 Kings×3

• Judges 7:5

  He brought the people down to the water, and YHWH said to Gideon, “Everyone who laps with his tongue from the water, as a dog laps, you shall set apart, and everyone who bends down on his knees to drink.”

• Judges 7:6

  The number of those who lapped with their hand to their mouth was three hundred men; and all the rest of the people bent down on their knees to drink water.

• Judges 7:7

  YHWH said to Gideon, “With the three hundred men who lapped I will save you and give Midian into your hand; and let all the people go, each to his place.”

• 1 Kings 21:19

  And you shall speak to him, saying, ‘Thus says YHWH: Have you murdered and also taken possession?’ And you shall speak to him, saying, ‘Thus says YHWH: In the place where the dogs licked up the blood of Naboth, the dogs will lick up your blood, yours too.’”

• 1 Kings 22:38

  They washed the chariot by the pool of Samaria, and the dogs licked up his blood —and the prostitutes bathed there— according to the word of YHWH that he had spoken.

And 2 more times.