נְקָרָה
nekara · cleft
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H5366 · appears 2 times in the Bible
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nekara (נְקָרָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “cleft”.
Crack in a rock.
How to say it
ne·ka·ra
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
- A narrow opening in the rock.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- cleft ×1
- clefts ×1
Related words
Comes from
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Exodus 33:22
And it will be, when my glory passes by, that I will put you in a cleft of the rock and cover you with my hand until I have passed by.
- Isaiah 2:21
to go into the clefts of the rocks and into the crevices of the crags, from before the dread of YHWH and from the majesty of his loftiness, when he rises to terrify the earth.