נָקֹד
speckled
‘speckled’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Adjective
- A word that describes or qualifies a noun.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Plural, Absolute 5 times (56%)
- Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute 3 times (33%)
- Adjective, Adjective, Feminine, Plural, Absolute 1 time (11%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 9 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H5348 appears — 7 distinct verses 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.
Genesis 7 verses
- Genesis 30:32 נָקֹ֣ד וְ/נָקֹ֖ד adj Adjective ms conj + Adjective Adjective ms I will pass through all your flock today, removing from there every speckled and spotted one, and every black one among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats. This will be my hire.
- Genesis 30:33 נָקֹ֨ד adj Adjective ms So my righteousness will answer for me hereafter, when you come concerning my hire that is before you. Everyone that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and black among the sheep, that might be with me, will be counted stolen."
- Genesis 30:35 הַ/נְּקֻדּ֣וֹת ptcl def.art + Adjective Adjective fp That day, he removed the male goats that were streaked and spotted, and all the female goats that were speckled and spotted, every one that had white in it, and all the black ones among the sheep, and gave them into the hand of his sons.
- Genesis 30:39 נְקֻדִּ֖ים adj Adjective mp The flocks conceived before the rods, and the flocks brought forth streaked, speckled, and spotted.
- Genesis 31:8 נְקֻדִּים֙ נְקֻדִּ֑ים adj Adjective mp adj Adjective mp If he said this, 'The speckled will be your wages,' then all the flock bore speckled. If he said this, 'The streaked will be your wages,' then all the flock bore streaked.
- Genesis 31:10 נְקֻדִּ֖ים adj Adjective mp It happened at the time that the flock conceive, that I lifted up my eyes, and saw in a dream, and behold, the male goats which leaped on the flock were streaked, speckled, and grizzled.
- Genesis 31:12 נְקֻדִּ֖ים adj Adjective mp He said, 'Now lift up your eyes, and behold, all the male goats which leap on the flock are streaked, speckled, and grizzled, for I have seen all that Laban does to you.
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.
נקד — transliterated nâqôd — is a Hebrew adjective carrying the sense “speckled.” Its uses cluster heavily in Genesis (100% of all occurrences). Spanning 7 verses in 1 book, it ranks among the uncommon words of the Hebrew Bible. Debuting at Genesis 30:32, it then recurs through the corpus. Its lexical range runs to 2 senses. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H5348 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 →
- 7
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 7 distinct verses.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,481
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,481 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 7 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Genesis 7 verses 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 7 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 7 verses · 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).
- King James Version: Speckled 6×
- American Standard Version: Speckled 5×
- Berean Standard Bible: Speckled 5×, Or speckled 3×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Speckled 8×, Young 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H5348 across 9 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 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 H5348 across 9 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H5348 across 9 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears 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 H5348 across 12 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in BDB
The 2 senses 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.
- speckled, marked with points
- of sheep and goats
Word origin
נָקֹד adj. speckled;—only sheep and goats
— 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 mark (by puncturing or branding)
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.
נָקַד I
- (cmp. קָדַד) to sting, point, puncture, break through. Y. Keth. II, 26ᵇ bot. לבי נוֹקְדֵינִי my conscience stings me (I am afraid that I may have sinned); Y. Yeb. X, 11ᵃ top נוקריני (corr. acc.). Gitt. 56ᵃ (play on נ̇ק̇ד̇ימון) שנָ֗קְ֗דָ֗ה לו חמה בעבורו for his sake did the sun break through again (after being obscured); Yalk. Deut. 809; Taan. 20ᵃ Ms. M. (ed. שנקדרה). Ib. אילו לא נ׳ החמה Ms. M. (ed. נקדרה). [Ib. שלשה נקדה Ms. M. (ed. נקדמה, read, as Ab. Zar. 25ᵃ: עמדה.]—2) (Massorah) to dot, mark with diacritical points. Ab. d’R. N. ch. XXXIV, כבר נָקַדְתִּי עליהן I (Ezra) have marked these words with dots.—Part. pass. נָקיּד. Ib. נ׳ על י׳ שביניך there is a dot over the Yod of benekhah (Gen. XVI, 6). Snh. 43ᵇ למה נ׳ על לנו וכ׳ why are there dots over lanu &c. (Deut. XXIX, 28)? Pes. IX, 2 לפיכך נ׳ על וכ׳ therefore the Hé (of רחקה, Num. IX, 10) is marked &c.; a. fr. e.g. Genesis 16:6
- to be spotted. Maasr. I, 3 החרובים משיִנָּקְדוּ carobs are subject to tithes as soon as they get dark spots; Y. ib. 48ᵈ bot. משיִנָּקֵידוּ.
נָקַד II
- (dialect. interch. with נָקַר) to be clean, v. נָקַר II.
נְקַד
- v. נְקַר
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.
Forms in the corpus
The 7 distinct written forms H5348 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| נְקֻדִּ֖ים | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Genesis 30:39 | 3 |
| הַ/נְּקֻדּ֣וֹת | Adjective, Adjective, Feminine, Plural, Absolute | Genesis 30:35 | 1 |
| וְ/נָקֹ֖ד | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Genesis 30:32 | 1 |
| נְקֻדִּ֑ים | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Genesis 31:8 | 1 |
| נְקֻדִּים֙ | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Genesis 31:8 | 1 |
| נָקֹ֣ד | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Genesis 30:32 | 1 |
| נָקֹ֨ד | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Genesis 30:33 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H5348, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derived from this word
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
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Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 7 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 7 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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