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נָקִיק

nakik · cleft (in the rock)

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H5357 · appears 3 times in the Bible

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What it means

nakik (נָקִיק) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “cleft (in the rock)”.

A cleft in the rock.

How to say it

na·kik

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. A narrow opening in the rocks.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

  • clefts ×2
  • cleft ×1

Where it appears

  • Isaiah 7:19

    And they will come and settle, all of them, in the steep ravines and in the clefts of the crags, and on all the thornbushes and on all the watering places.

  • Jeremiah 13:4

    “Take the belt that you bought, which is on your loins, and get up, go to the Euphrates, and hide it there in the cleft of the rock.”

  • Jeremiah 16:16

    Look, I am sending for many fishermen, declares YHWH, and they will fish them out; and afterward I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them from upon every mountain and from upon every hill, and from the clefts of the rocks.