יָקַע
to be dislocated
‘to be dislocated’ is one of 3 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
See every Qal verb in the Hebrew Bible →
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Stem
- Qal
- The basic, simple active stem — the plain form of the verb (“he wrote”).
- Hiphil
- The causative active stem (“he caused / brought about”).
- Hophal
- The passive counterpart of the Hiphil (“he was caused to…”).
Form
- Sequential Imperfect
- An imperfect with prefixed waw — the standard past-narrative form (waw-consecutive imperfect).
- Sequential Perfect
- A perfect with prefixed waw continuing a preceding imperfect or command (waw-consecutive perfect).
- Imperative
- A direct command (“write!”).
- Participle Passive
- A verbal adjective expressing action received (“written”).
- Imperfect
- An incomplete, ongoing, or future action (“he will / would write”).
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Person
- 3rd Person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
- 1st Person
- The speaker (“I / we”).
- 2nd Person
- The one addressed (“you”).
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
- Common
- Either gender — not distinguished for this form.
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Grammatical forms
- Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Feminine, Singular 3 times (38%)
- Verb, Hiphil, Sequential Perfect, 1st Person, Common, Plural 1 time (13%)
- Verb, Hiphil, Imperative, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular 1 time (13%)
- Verb, Hiphil, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural 1 time (13%)
- Verb, Hophal, Participle Passive, Masculine, Plural, Absolute 1 time (13%)
- Verb, Qal, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Feminine, Singular 1 time (13%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 8 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H3363 appears — 8 distinct verses across 5 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Genesis 1 verse
Numbers 1 verse
2 Samuel 3 verses
- 2 Samuel 21:6 וְ/הוֹקַֽעֲנוּ/ם֙ conj + Hiphil wpf 1cp + sfx pers 3mp let seven men of his sons be delivered to us, and we will hang them up to Yahweh in Gibeah of Saul, the chosen of Yahweh. The king said, I will give them.
- 2 Samuel 21:9 וַ/יֹּקִיעֻ֤/ם conj + Hiphil wimpf 3mp + sfx pers 3mp He delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them in the mountain before Yahweh, and they fell [all] seven together. They were put to death in the days of harvest, in the first days, at the beginning of barley harvest.
- 2 Samuel 21:13 הַ/מּוּקָעִֽים ptcl def.art + Hophal ptcp.pass mp and he brought up from there the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son: and they gathered the bones of those who were hanged.
Jeremiah 1 verse
Ezekiel 2 verses
- Ezekiel 23:17 וַ/תֵּ֥קַע conj + Qal wimpf 3fs The Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their prostitution, and she was polluted with them, and her soul was alienated from them.
- Ezekiel 23:18 וַ/תֵּ֤קַע conj + Qal wimpf 3fs So she uncovered her prostitution, and uncovered her nakedness: then my soul was alienated from her, like as my soul was alienated from her sister.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
“to be dislocated” is the headline sense of the Hebrew verb יקע (yâqaʻ). First canonically at Genesis 32:25, it enters the text early. It turns up in 8 verses across 5 books, an uncommon footprint. It concentrates in 2 Samuel, which alone accounts for 38% of its uses. The verb spans 3 stems, from Qal to Hiphil. See the sense tree, 8-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H3363 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 8
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 8 distinct verses.
- 5 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 5 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,625
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,625 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 8 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 8 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 6 verses · 75%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 2 verses · 25%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Was alienated 2×
- American Standard Version: Be alienated 1×, Hang them up 1×, Soul was alienated from them 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Disgust 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Hang 1×, Hanged ones 1×, I turned away from 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H3363 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 6 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H3363 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H3363 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 6 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H3363 across 10 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in the full BDB
Hebrew verbs can shift meaning by stem (binyan): Qal is the basic action, Niphal is often passive or reflexive, Piel often intensifies or makes it factitive, and Hiphil is typically causative. The senses below are grouped under the stem BDB assigns to each. This entry also uses Hophal (the passive of Hiphil).
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 3 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
Qal
- Impf. 3 fs. תֵּקַע Je 6:8; וַתֵּקַע Gn 32:26 + 2 times; dislocated Gn 32:26 (Jacob’s thigh); elsewhere fig. of נפשׁ; torn away, alienated from any one, sq. מִן Je 6:8 Ez 23:17; sq. מֵעַל v 18. e.g. Jeremiah 6:8
Hiphil
- Pf. וְהוֹקַעֲנוּם consec. 2 S 21:6; Impf. וַיֹּקִיעֻם v 9; Imv. הוֹקַע Nu 25:4; of some solemn form of execution, but meaning uncertain: Aq Gesimpale; 𝔊 𝔖 expose (ἐξηλιάζειν, παραδειγματίζειν); 𝔗 𝔙 crucify; RSRel; Sem 398 (419) throw down (Arabic أَوْقَعَ) a rock (cf. 2 Ch 25:12): + ליהוה 2 S 21:6 (לפני י׳ v 9), Nu 25:4. e.g. 2 Samuel 21:6
Hophal
- Pt. הַמּוּקָעִים 2 S 21:13; pass. of Hiph. e.g. 2 Samuel 21:13
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
vb. be dislocated, alienated (Arabic وَقَعَ is fall, fall down, fall upon, befal, happen)—
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Origin: a primitive root
Forms in the corpus
The 8 distinct written forms H3363 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that stem’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| הַ/מּוּקָעִֽים | Verb, Hophal, Participle Passive, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | 2 Samuel 21:13 | 1 |
| וְ/הוֹקַ֥ע | Verb, Hiphil, Imperative, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular | Numbers 25:4 | 1 |
| וְ/הוֹקַֽעֲנוּ/ם֙ | Verb, Hiphil, Sequential Perfect, 1st Person, Common, Plural | 2 Samuel 21:6 | 1 |
| וַ/יֹּקִיעֻ֤/ם | Verb, Hiphil, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural | 2 Samuel 21:9 | 1 |
| וַ/תֵּ֤קַע | Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Feminine, Singular | Ezekiel 23:18 | 1 |
| וַ/תֵּ֥קַע | Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Feminine, Singular | Ezekiel 23:17 | 1 |
| וַ/תֵּ֨קַע֙ | Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Feminine, Singular | Genesis 32:25 | 1 |
| תֵּקַ֥ע | Verb, Qal, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Feminine, Singular | Jeremiah 6:8 | 1 |
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 8 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 8 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
