STRONGS NUMBER H5365


Word Summary
naqar: to bore, pick, dig
Original Word: נָקַר
Transliteration: naqar
Phonetic Spelling: (naw-kar')
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to bore, pick, dig
Meaning: to bore, pick, dig
Strong's Concordance
dig, pick out, pierce, put thrust out

A primitive root; to bore (penetrate, quarry) -- dig, pick out, pierce, put (thrust) out.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H5365. naqar

[נָקַר‎] verb bore, pick, dig (Late Hebrew id., Aramaic נְקַרid.; Arabic perforate, bore out, hollow out Lane2838; Ethiopic be one-eyed Di645); —

Qal Imperfect3masculine plural suffix יִקְּרוּהָProverbs 30:17; Infinitive נְקוֺר1 Samuel 11:3, both of boring, or picking out eye (accusative).

Pi`el Imperfect. 2 masculine singular תְּנַקֵּרNumbers 16:14 (JE), 3 masculine plural וַיְנַקְּרוּJudges 16:21 both of boring out eyes (accusative); Perfect3masculine singular נִקַּרJob 30:17 he (or it, i.e. the night) boreth my bones מֵעָלָ֑י‎ (of effects of elephantiasis; Bu reads נֻקַּר‎).

Pu`al Perfect2masculine plural נֻקַּרְתֶּםIsaiah 51:1 the quarry (from which) ye were digged.