עוּק
uk · press down, crush
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H5781 · appears 2 times in the Bible
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uk (עוּק) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “press down, crush”.
To press down, crush, make creak under a load (sense uncertain).
How to say it
uk
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
- To make something give way and groan under great weight.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- am making the ground creak ×1
- creaks ×1
Related words
Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Amos 2:13
Look, I am making the ground creak under you, as the cart creaks that is full of sheaves.
And 1 more times.