nakav · name, specify; pierce

What it means

nakav (נָקַב) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “name, specify; pierce”.

Name, specify, set exactly. Elsewhere, pierce; also curse.

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 open a hole in something, to pierce it through.
2. To single someone or something out by name, or to fix an amount.
3. To speak ill of the Name of YHWH and curse it.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• had been designated ×3
• were designated ×3
• pierce ×2
• pierces it ×2
• will curse him ×2
• Name ×1
• You pierced ×1
• all ×1
• blasphemed ×1
• bored ×1
• others ×7

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Leviticus×3
• Numbers×3
• 2 Kings×2
• 1 Chronicles×2
• 2 Chronicles×2
• Ezra×1
• Job×3
• Proverbs×2
• Isaiah×2
• Amos×1
• Habakkuk×1
• Haggai×1

• Genesis 30:28

  And he said, “Name your wages to me, and I will give it.”

• Leviticus 24:11

  And the son of the Israelite woman blasphemed the Name and cursed; and they brought him to Moses. Now the name of his mother was Shelomith, daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.

• Leviticus 24:16

  And whoever blasphemes the name of YHWH shall surely be put to death; all the community shall surely stone him; the resident alien as well as the native, when he blasphemes the Name, shall be put to death.

• Numbers 1:17

  So Moses and Aaron took these men who had been designated by names,

• Numbers 23:8

  How shall I curse whom El has not cursed? And how shall I denounce whom YHWH has not denounced?

• Numbers 23:25

  And Balak said to Balaam, “Neither curse them at all nor bless them at all!”

• 2 Kings 12:9

  Jehoiada the priest took a chest and bored a hole in its lid and put it beside the altar, on the right as one enters the house of YHWH; and the priests who guarded the threshold would put there all the silver that was brought into the house of YHWH.

• 2 Kings 18:21

  Now, look, you have trusted in the staff of this broken reed, in Egypt, on which a man leans, and it goes into his palm and pierces it. So is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him.

• 1 Chronicles 12:31

  and of the half-tribe of Manasseh, eighteen thousand, who were designated by name to come to make David king;

• 1 Chronicles 16:41

  And with them Heman and Jeduthun, and the rest of the selected ones who were designated by name to give thanks to YHWH, for his loyal love is forever;

• 2 Chronicles 28:15

  Then the men who had been designated by name rose up and took charge of the captives; and all the naked among them they clothed from the spoil; they clothed them, gave them sandals, gave them food and drink, anointed them, led them on donkeys, all who stumbled, and brought them to Jericho, the city of palm trees, beside their brothers. Then they returned to Samaria.

• 2 Chronicles 31:19

  And for the sons of Aaron, the priests, who were in the fields of the pasturelands of their cities, in every city there were men who had been designated by name to give portions to every male among the priests and to everyone enrolled in the genealogy among the Levites.

• Ezra 8:20

  and of the Nethinim, whom David and the officials had given for the service of the Levites, two hundred twenty Nethinim; all of them were designated by name.

• Job 3:8

  Let those who curse the day curse it, those who are ready to rouse Leviathan.

• Job 40:24

  By its eyes can anyone take it? With snares can anyone pierce its nose?

• Job 41:2

  Can you put a rush in its nose, or with a hook pierce its jaw?

• Proverbs 11:26

  Whoever withholds grain, the people will curse him, but blessing is on the head of the one who sells it.

• Proverbs 24:24

  Whoever says to the wicked, “You are righteous,” peoples will curse him, nations will be indignant with him;

• Isaiah 36:6

  Look, you have trusted in the staff of this broken reed, in Egypt, on which a man leans, and it goes into his palm and pierces it. So is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him.

• Isaiah 62:2

  And nations will see your righteousness, and all kings your glory; and you will be called by a new name that the mouth of YHWH will designate.

• Amos 6:1

  Woe to those at ease in Zion, and those who trust in the mountain of Samaria, the notable men of the first of the nations, to whom the house of Israel comes!

• Habakkuk 3:14

  You pierced with his rods the head of his warriors; they stormed to scatter me; their exultation was as to devour the poor in the hiding place.

• Haggai 1:6

  You have sown much, and bring in little; you eat, and there is no satisfaction; you drink, and there is no drunkenness; you clothe yourselves, and there is no warmth for anyone; and the one who earns wages earns wages for a bag with holes.

And 1 more times.