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Habakkuk 3:14
“Thou didst strike through with his staves the head of his villages: they came out as a whirlwind to scatter me: their rejoicing was as to devour the poor secretly.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
H5344 · Hebrew
- Definition
- to puncture, literally (to perforate, with more or less violence) or figuratively (to specify, designate, libel)
- Derivation
- a primitive root;
- KJV renderings
- appoint, blaspheme, bore, curse, express, with holes, name, pierce, strike through.
- Grammar
- נָקַ֤בְתָּ — verb Qal, perfect, 2nd person, masculine, singular
- Usage
- Occurs 24 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 30:28Leviticus 24:11Leviticus 24:16Leviticus 24:16Numbers 1:17
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read נָקַב here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.