yanak · nurse

What it means

yanak (יָנַק) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “nurse”.

Suck; in the causative form, nurse, give milk to a child.

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. For a baby to take milk from his mother's breast.
2. To give a baby the breast, the mother or the woman who nurses him.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• nurse ×10
• nursing ×5
• nursing child ×4
• nursing infant ×4
• you will suck ×3
• nursed ×2
• he made him suck ×1
• he will suck ×1
• they will suck ×1
• you may suck ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×4
• Exodus×3
• Numbers×1
• Deuteronomy×3
• 1 Samuel×3
• 1 Kings×1
• 2 Kings×1
• 2 Chronicles×1
• Job×2
• Psalms×1
• Song of Songs×1
• Isaiah×6
• Jeremiah×1
• Lamentations×3
• Joel×1

• Genesis 21:7

  And she said, “Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne him a son in his old age.”

• Genesis 24:59

  So they sent away Rebekah their sister and her nurse, and Abraham’s servant and his men.

• Genesis 32:15

  thirty nursing camels with their young, forty cows and ten bulls, twenty female donkeys and ten foals.

• Genesis 35:8

  Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died and was buried below Bethel under the oak; so he called its name Allon-bacuth.

• Exodus 2:7

  His sister said to the daughter of Pharaoh, “Shall I go and call for you a nursing woman from the Hebrew women to nurse the child for you?”

• Exodus 2:9

  The daughter of Pharaoh said to her, “Take this child and nurse him for me, and I will give you your wages.” So the woman took the child and nursed him.

• Numbers 11:12

  Did I conceive all this people? Did I give birth to them, that you should say to me, ‘Carry them in your bosom, as the nurse carries the nursing child, to the ground that you swore to their fathers’?

• Deuteronomy 32:13

  He made him ride on the high places of the earth, and he ate the produce of the field; he made him suck honey from the crag and oil from the flint of the rock,

• Deuteronomy 32:25

  Outside the sword will bereave, and in the inner rooms terror, both young man and virgin, the nursing child with the man of gray hair.

• Deuteronomy 33:19

  Peoples to the mountain they will call; there they will sacrifice sacrifices of righteousness, for they will suck the abundance of the seas and the hidden treasures of the sand.”

• 1 Samuel 1:23

  And Elkanah her husband said to her, “Do what is good in your eyes; stay until you have weaned him; only may YHWH establish his word.” So the woman stayed and nursed her son until she weaned him.

• 1 Samuel 15:3

  Now go and strike Amalek, and devote to destruction all that he has; do not spare him, but put to death from man to woman, from child to nursing infant, from ox to lamb, from camel to donkey.’”

• 1 Samuel 22:19

  And Nob, the city of the priests, he struck with the edge of the sword, from man to woman, from child to nursing infant, and ox, donkey, and sheep, with the edge of the sword.

• 1 Kings 3:21

  And I rose in the morning to nurse my son, and I saw that he was dead. But I looked closely at him in the morning, and I saw that it was not my son whom I had borne.”

• 2 Kings 11:2

  But Jehosheba, the daughter of King Joram, sister of Ahaziah, took Joash son of Ahaziah and stole him from among the king’s sons who were being put to death, him and his nurse, and put them in the room of the beds; and they hid him from Athaliah, and he was not put to death.

• 2 Chronicles 22:11

  But Jehoshabeath, the daughter of the king, took Joash son of Ahaziah and stole him from among the king’s sons who were being put to death, and she put him and his nurse in the room of the beds. So Jehoshabeath, the daughter of King Joram, the wife of Jehoiada the priest —for she was the sister of Ahaziah— hid him from Athaliah, and she did not put him to death.

• Job 3:12

  Why did knees receive me, and why breasts, that I should nurse?

• Job 20:16

  The poison of vipers he will suck; the tongue of the adder will kill him.

• Psalms 8:2

  From the mouth of children and of nursing infants you have founded strength because of your adversaries, to put an end to the enemy and the one who takes vengeance.

• Song of Songs 8:1

  If only you were like a brother to me, who nursed at the breasts of my mother! I would find you outside, I would kiss you, and yet no one would despise me.

• Isaiah 11:8

  And the nursing child will play over the hole of the viper, and over the den of the cobra the weaned child will stretch out his hand.

• Isaiah 49:23

  And kings will be your foster fathers, and their princesses your nursing mothers; with their faces to the ground they will bow down to you, and the dust of your feet they will lick; and you will know that I am YHWH, that those who wait for me will not be ashamed.”

• Isaiah 60:16

  And you will suck the milk of nations, and the breast of kings you will suck; and you will know that I, YHWH, am your Savior and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.

• Isaiah 66:11

  so that you may suck and be satisfied from the breast of her consolations; so that you may drink deeply and delight from the abundance of her glory.

• Isaiah 66:12

  For thus says YHWH: “Look, I will extend to her peace like a river, and the glory of the nations like an overflowing torrent; and you will suck; at the side you will be carried, and on her knees you will be dandled.

• Jeremiah 44:7

  And now, thus says YHWH Elohim Tsevaot, the Elohim of Israel: Why are you doing great evil against your souls, to cut off from you man and woman, child and nursing child, from the midst of Judah, so as not to leave you a remnant,

• Lamentations 2:11

  My eyes are spent with tears; my insides are in turmoil; my liver is poured out on the ground because of the shattering of the daughter of my people, when child and nursing infant faint in the squares of the city.

• Lamentations 4:3

  Even jackals offer the breast; they nurse their cubs; the daughter of my people has turned cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.

• Lamentations 4:4

  The tongue of the nursing infant clings to its palate from thirst; little children ask for bread; there is no one to break it for them.

• Joel 2:16

  Gather the people, consecrate the assembly, bring together the elders, gather the children and those nursing at the breasts; let the bridegroom go out from his room, and the bride from her canopy.

And 2 more times.