atak · move on

What it means

atak (עָתַק) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “move on”.

Move from one place to another; also grow old.

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 move from one place to another, or to shift something from its place.
2. To grow old and lose strength with the years.
3. To pass a text from one place to another by copying it.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• he moved on ×2
• removed ×2
• He who removes ×1
• copied ×1
• grow old ×1
• have moved away ×1
• it has grown old ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×2
• Job×5
• Psalms×1
• Proverbs×1

• Genesis 12:8

  From there he moved on to the mountain east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to YHWH and called on the name of YHWH.

• Genesis 26:22

  He moved on from there and dug another well, and they did not quarrel over it; so he called its name Rehoboth, and said, “For now YHWH has made room for us, and we will be fruitful in the land.”

• Job 9:5

  He who removes mountains, and they do not know that he overturns them in his anger;

• Job 14:18

  But a mountain that falls crumbles away, and a rock is removed from its place;

• Job 18:4

  He who tears himself in his anger: for your sake will the earth be forsaken, and the rock be removed from its place?

• Job 21:7

  Why do the wicked live, grow old, and even grow mighty in wealth?

• Job 32:15

  They are dismayed; they do not answer anymore; words have moved away from them.

• Psalms 6:7

  My eye has wasted away from grief; it has grown old because of all my adversaries.

• Proverbs 25:1

  These also are proverbs of Solomon, which the men of Hezekiah, king of Judah, copied.