ruk · empty, draw out

What it means

ruk (רוּק) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “empty, draw out”.

Empty, pour out; draw out (a sword, or men for battle).

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 leave a sack, jar or net without its contents, pouring them out.
2. To draw the sword from its sheath, ready to strike.
3. To bring out trained men to go to battle.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• empty ×5
• I will unsheathe ×3
• draw out ×2
• they will draw ×2
• I flung them out ×1
• I will draw ×1
• been emptied ×1
• he called out ×1
• pour out ×1
• poured out ×1
• others ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×2
• Exodus×1
• Leviticus×1
• Psalms×2
• Ecclesiastes×1
• Song of Songs×1
• Isaiah×1
• Jeremiah×2
• Ezekiel×5
• Habakkuk×1
• Zechariah×1
• Malachi×1

• Genesis 14:14

  When Abram heard that his brother had been taken captive, he called out his trained men, born in his house, three hundred eighteen, and pursued as far as Dan.

• Genesis 42:35

  As they were emptying their sacks, look, each man’s bundle of silver was in his sack. When they and their father saw their bundles of silver, they were afraid.

• Exodus 15:9

  The enemy said, ‘I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the plunder; my soul will have its fill of them. I will draw my sword; my hand will destroy them.’

• Leviticus 26:33

  And you I will scatter among the nations, and I will draw out the sword after you; and your land will be a desolation, and your cities will be a ruin.

• Psalms 18:42

  I ground them like dust before the wind; like the mud of the streets I flung them out.

• Psalms 35:3

  And draw out the spear and close the way to meet those who pursue me; say to my soul, “Your salvation am I.”

• Ecclesiastes 11:3

  If the clouds are full of rain, on the earth they empty it; and if a tree falls to the south or to the north, in the place where the tree falls, there it will be.

• Song of Songs 1:3

  For fragrance your perfumes are good; perfume poured out is your name; therefore the young women love you.

• Isaiah 32:6

  For the fool speaks folly, and his heart does wickedness, to practice godlessness and to speak error against YHWH, to leave empty the soul of the hungry, and the drink of the thirsty he makes fail.

• Jeremiah 48:11

  Moab has been at ease from his youth, and he has rested quietly on his lees, and he has not been emptied from vessel to vessel, and into exile he has not gone; therefore his taste has remained in him, and his scent has not changed.

• Jeremiah 48:12

  Therefore, look, days are coming, declares YHWH, when I will send to him pourers, and they will pour him off, and his vessels they will empty, and their jars they will smash.

• Ezekiel 5:2

  A third you will burn with fire in the midst of the city, when the days of the siege are completed; and you will take a third and strike it with the sword all around it; and a third you will scatter to the wind, and a sword I will unsheathe after them.

• Ezekiel 5:12

  A third of you will die by pestilence and be consumed by famine in your midst; and a third will fall by the sword all around you; and a third to every wind I will scatter, and a sword I will unsheathe after them.

• Ezekiel 12:14

  And all who are around him as his help and all his troops I will scatter to every wind, and a sword I will unsheathe after them.

• Ezekiel 28:7

  therefore, look, I am bringing against you strangers, the terrible ones of the nations; and they will draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom, and profane your splendor.

• Ezekiel 30:11

  He and his people with him, the fearsome ones of the nations, are brought to destroy the land; and they will draw their swords against Egypt and fill the land with slain.

• Habakkuk 1:17

  Will he therefore empty his net, and continually slay nations without sparing?

• Zechariah 4:12

  And I answered a second time and said to him, “What are the two branches of the olive trees that are beside the two golden tubes that empty out of themselves the gold?”

• Malachi 3:10

  Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house; and test me, please, in this, says YHWH Tsevaot, if I will not open for you the floodgates of the heavens and pour out on you blessing until there is no more need.