נָקַר
nakar · gouge out, bore
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H5365 · appears 6 times in the Bible
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nakar (נָקַר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “gouge out, bore”.
Bore through, dig out; said of the eyes, gouge them out.
How to say it
na·kar
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
- Tear out eyes; bore a hole; cut stone from a quarry.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- Will you gouge out ×1
- are pierced ×1
- gouged out ×1
- gouging out ×1
- which you were dug ×1
- will pick it out ×1
Related words
Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Numbers 16:14
Moreover, you have not brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey, or given us an inheritance of field and vineyard. Will you gouge out the eyes of those men? We will not come up!”
- Judges 16:21
And the Philistines seized him and gouged out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza and bound him with bronze fetters; and he was grinding in the house of the prisoners.
- 1 Samuel 11:2
Nahash the Ammonite said to them, “On this condition I will make a covenant with you: by gouging out every right eye of yours, and I will put it as a reproach on all Israel.”
- Job 30:17
By night my bones are pierced in me, and those gnawing me do not lie down.
- Proverbs 30:17
The eye that mocks a father and despises obedience to a mother, the ravens of the valley will pick it out, and the young of the eagle will eat it.
- Isaiah 51:1
“Listen to me, you who pursue righteousness, who seek YHWH: look to the rock from which you were hewn, and to the hollow of the quarry from which you were dug.