נֶ֫זֶק
injury
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H5143 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.
Esther 1 verse
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“injury” is the headline sense of the Hebrew noun נזק (nêzeq). It occurs a mere 1 verse across Scripture. More than three-quarters of its appearances fall in Esther. Scripture uses it exactly once, at Esther 7:4. It shares a root with נזק. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H5143 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).
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Most concentrated in
- Esther 1 verse 100%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
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- Writings (Ketuvim) 1 verse · 100%
How translations render this word
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- King James Version: Damage 1×
- American Standard Version: 's damage 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Burdening 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Burden of 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H5143 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H5143 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H5143 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H5143 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- injury, damage
Word origin
[ נֶ֫זֶק ] n.[m.] injury, damage;—only cstr. Est 7:4
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Origin: from an unused root meaning to injure
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
נָזַק
- Hif. הִזִּיק (denom. of נֵזֶק) to hurt, injure, damage. Ex. R. s. 20, beg. דלג … ולא הִזִּיקוֹ stepped over the child and did not injure it. B. Kam. I, 1 לילך ולהַזִּיק to do injury in moving (be an active agency of damage); ib. וכשה׳ חב וכ׳ and when one of them caused damage, the offender (מַזִּיק) is responsible. Ib. III, 6 והִזִּיקוּ זה וכ׳ and hurt one another (by collision); a. fr.—V. מַזִּיק.
- to be hurt, injured, damaged. Ib. III, 1, sq. Ib. 31ᵇ שהוּזְּקוּ כלים בכלים vessels (belonging to one person) were damaged by collision with (another person’s) vessels; a. fr.
- same. Ex. R. l. c. end שלא יִנָּזְקוּ that they be not hurt (by the wolves). Deut. R. s. 7 ולא תִנָּזֵק צפורנו של אחד מהם rather than a nail of one of them be injured; a. e.—Usu. part. נִיזּוֹק, נִזּוֹק; pl. נִיזּוֹקִים, נִיזּוֹקִין. Ber. 9ᵇ אינו נ׳ כל וכ׳ has no evil to fear for the entire day. Ib. 40ᵃ ואי אתה נ׳ and thou shalt not get sick; a. fr.—Ḥull. 142ᵃ; Pes. 8ᵇ, a. e. שלוחי מצוה אינן נ׳ those going on a religious mission will not meet with evil; a. e.—V. נִיזָּק.
נְזַק
- Targ. Ps. XCI, 7 יקרבון למִנְזָק (h. text יגש); a. e.
- same. Targ. Jer. XII, 14 (h. text נגע); a. e.
- (הַנְזֵק), אַזֵּיק same. Targ. O. Gen. XXVI, 11. Targ. Ex. XI, 7 לא יַנְזֵק … בלישניה ed. Berl. (ed. Vien. לישניה, corr. acc.; Y. יְהַנְ׳); a. e.—B. Kam. 27ᵇ הוא דא׳ אנפשיה it is he who hurt himself (through his own action); ib. 28ᵃ א׳ נפשיה. Ib. 13ᵇ אַזְּקֵיה תורא דמשאיל וכ׳ the ox of the lender injured that of the borrower. Ib. אזקי ed. (read with Ms. M. אזקיה). B. Mets. 117ᵃ אזלי ומַזְּקֵי וכ׳ the water came down and damaged the property of those living below; a. fr.—Gitt. 53ᵃ לאוזוקי קא מכוין (read: לאַזּוּקֵיה or לאַנְזוּקֵיה, Rashi לצעריה) he has the intention to harm him.
- , Ittaf. אִיתַּזַּק; Ithpe. אִיתְנְזִיק, אִינְּזִיק to be hurt, to meet with an accident. Targ. II Chr. XXXII, 31. Targ. Job V, 24.—B. Kam. 13ᵇ אילו איתזק מעלמא if he had been hurt through any other cause. Ber. 9ᵇ ואִיתַּזְּקִי and I met with evil; במאי אִיתַּזְּקַת what was the evil thou didst meet with?—Lev. R. s. 24 ולית אתון מִתְנַזְּקִין and you have never been injured. Kidd. 29ᵇ הוו מִיתַּזְּקֵי they used to be hurt (by a demon, v. מַזִּיק); a. fr.
נֵזֶק
- [junction, touch; cmp. נגע, רע &c.,] accident, evil, injury, damage; תַּשְׁלוּמֵי נ׳ indemnity. Ab. Zar. I, 7 וכל דבר שיש בו נ׳ לרבים or anything through which the public may be injured. B. Kam. I, 1 חב … לשלם תשלומי נ׳ וכ׳ the offender is bound to pay indemnity with the best of the land (out of his best lands, v. עִידִית). Ib. 2 הכשרתי במקצת נִזְקוֹ I have been partly instrumental in injuring him, v. הֶכְשֵׁר. Ib. II, 5, a. fr. חצי נ׳ indemnity up to half the damage, opp. נ׳ שלם full indemnity. Ib. VIII, 1 בנ׳ בצער וכ׳ (has to pay) damages (for the maimed limb), an indemnity for the pain inflicted &c.; a. fr.—Pl. נְזָקִים, נְזָקִין; constr. נִזְקֵי. Ib. 84ᵃ דנין נ׳ מנ׳ וכ׳ we may draw an analogy between different cases of mayhem, but not between mayhem and homicide. Ib. נ׳ שור בשור damages for an ox injured by an ox; a. fr.—נְזָקִין, נְזִיקִין (fr. נָזִיק) cases of damages, laws concerning injuries; damages. Ib. I, 1, v. אָב II. Mekh. Mishp. s. 14; a. fr., v. נִיזָּקִין.—Esp. N’ziḳin, (Seder N’ziḳin) name of the fourth Order of the Mishnah, Tosefta and Talmud, also of a section of M’khilta Mishpaṭim. Sabb. 31ᵃ. Lev. R. s. 19 נ׳ ל׳ פרקים N. which contains thirty chapters; a. e.—B. Kam. 102ᵃ כולה נ׳ חדא וכ׳ the entire N’ziḳin (Baba Ḳamma, M’tsiʿa and Bathra) is one treatise.
נֶזֶק
- Targ. O. Ex. XXIV, 11. Targ. Y. ib. XXX, 12 ני׳ דמותא (h. text נגף). Ib. XXI, 19; a. e.—B. Kam. 84ᵃ לבר מנזקא Ms. M. (ed. מנזק) except indemnity for loss of limb. Ib. שומו ליה נִיזְקֵיה assess the damages due him for the loss of his hand; a. fr.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
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Septuagint verse parallels
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