נוּק
to nurse
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Stem
- Hiphil
- The causative active stem (“he caused / brought about”). Here: ‘suckle’
Form
- Sequential Imperfect
- An imperfect with prefixed waw — the standard past-narrative form (waw-consecutive imperfect).
Person
- 3rd Person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H5134 appears — 1 distinct verse across 1 book. 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.
Exodus 1 verse
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.
נוק — transliterated nûwq — is a Hebrew verb carrying the sense “to nurse.” A scarce word — 1 verse in all of the Hebrew Bible. More than three-quarters of its appearances fall in Exodus. Found nowhere else but Exodus 2:9. As a verb its force shifts by stem, across 2 stems (Qal, Hiphil, and more). See the sense tree, 1-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H5134 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 →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #6,101
- by frequency
- Rank #6,101 (rank 6,101 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Exodus 1 verse 100%
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 1 distinct verse.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 1 verse · 100%
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).
BDB lists this Strong’s number as 2 distinct words (homographs). Each count above pools all of them and is not split by sense — see the Senses section below. A low-frequency rendering may belong to a different one of those words, not the primary meaning.
- King James Version†: Nursed 1×
- American Standard Version†: Nursed it 1×
- Berean Standard Bible†: Nursed him 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text†: Caused him to nurse 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H5134 across 1† tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H5134 across 1† tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H5134 across 1† tagged occurrence — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H5134 across 1† tagged occurrence — 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.
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.
נוק I suck (NH id.
Qal
- Pf. וְיָנַקְתְּ consec. Is 60:16; וִינַקְתֶּם 66:12; Impf. יִינָ֑ק Jb 20:16; אִינָ֑ק 3:12; תִּינָ֑קִי Is 60:16; יִינָ֑קוּ Dt 33:19; תִּינְקוּ Is 66:11; Pt. יוֹנֵק Dt 32:25 + 7 times, יֹנֵק Nu 11:12; יוֹנְקִים ψ 8:3; יוֹנְקֵי Jo 2:16;—suck, of infant at mother’s breast, abs. Jb 3:12; metaph. of abundance and honour of Jerusalem in future, Is 66:11 abs.; sq. acc. of breast 60:16, acc. of milk v 16; 66:12; sq. acc. רֹאשׁ פְּתָנִים Jb 20:16 of punishment of wicked; pt. sq. acc. יוֹנֵק שְׁדֵי אִמִּי Ct 8:1; cstr. יוֹנְקֵי־שָׁדַיִם Jo 2:16 elsewhere as subst., suckling, babe Nu 11:12; Dt 32:25 (opp. אִישׁ שֵׂיבָה); ‖ עוֹלֵל 1 S 15:3; 22:19; ψ 8:3 Je 44:7 La 2:11; ‖ עוֹלָל 4:4, cf. Jo 2:16; ‖ גָּמוּל Is 11:8;—on Is 53:2 v. יוֹנֵק Infr. e.g. Isaiah 60:16
Hiphil
- Pf. הֵינִ֫יקָה Gn 21:7; הֵנִ֫יקוּ La 4:3; Impf. sf. וַיֵּנִקֵ֫הוּ Dt 32:13; 3 fs. תֵּינִק Ex 2:7; וַתֵּ֫נֶק 1 S 1:23; וַתְּנִיקֵ֫הוּ Ex 2:9; Imv. fs. sf. הֵינִקִ֫הוּ v 9; Inf. לְהֵינִיק 1 K 3:21; Pt. מֵינֶ֫קֶת Ex 2:7; cstr. id. Gn 35:8; מֵנִקְתּוֹ 2 K 11:2; מֵינִקְתּוֹ 2 Ch 22:11; מֵנִקְתָּהּ Gn 24:59; מֵינִיקוֹת 32:16; מֵינִיקֹתַיִךְ Is 49:23;—give suck to, nurse, sq. acc. Gn 21:7 1 K 3:21 Ex 2:7, 9; 1 S 1:23; cause to suck honey, fig. Dt 32:13 (2 acc.); of animals La 4:3 sq. acc.; pt. fem. = nursing, אִשָּׁה מֵינֶקֶת Ex 2:7 lit. a nursing woman, a nurse; מ׳ alone as subst. = nurse Gn 24:59 (J), 35:8 (E דְּבֹרָה), 2 K 11:2; 2 Ch 22:11; metaph. Is 49:23; of camels גְּמַלִּים מֵינִיקוֹת Gn 32:16. e.g. Genesis 21:7
נוק II whence (si vera l.) might come,
Hiphil
- suckle, nurse;—Impf. 3 fs. sf. וַתְּנִיקֵ֫הוּ Ex 2:9, but v. ינק and Ges§ 70 e; read prob. וַתֵּינ׳ (Sam. ותיניקהו). e.g. Exodus 2:9
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
I. vb. suck (NH id.; Aramaic יְנַק, ܝܺܢܰܩ, and deriv.; Assyrian enîḳu, suck SASm Asrb. i, Gloss. mušêniḳtu, nurse, Jen ZA, 1886, 402)—
I. vb. whence (si vera l.) might come,
— 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
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 1 verse that also exists in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 1 Hebrew verse it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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