עוּק
to totter
also: cause to totter, crush 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
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Stem
- Hiphil
- The causative active stem (“he caused / brought about”).
Form
- Imperfect
- An incomplete, ongoing, or future action (“he will / would write”).
- Participle Active
- A verbal adjective expressing ongoing or characteristic action (“writing / one who writes”).
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”).
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Verb, Hiphil, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Feminine, Singular 1 time (50%)
- Verb, Hiphil, Participle Active, Masculine, Singular, Absolute 1 time (50%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 2 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H5781 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.
Amos 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.
“to totter” is the headline sense of the Hebrew verb עוק (ʻûwq). It is rare — just 1 verse in the entire Hebrew Bible. More than three-quarters of its appearances fall in Amos. Its lone occurrence is Amos 2:13. Not a single-sense word, it carries 2 senses, among them “cause to totter” and “crush”. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H5781 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.
- #4,807
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 4,807 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Amos 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.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 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).
- King James Version: Behold i am pressed 1×, Is pressed 1×
- American Standard Version: Behold 1×, Cart presseth 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Am about to crush you 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Can crush 1×, Will crush 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H5781 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H5781 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H5781 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H5781 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
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.
- (Hiphil) to totter, cause to totter, crush
- meaning dubious
Word origin
[ עוּק ] vb. dub.;—only Hiph. totter, cause tottering
— 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
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.
עוּק
- 1. to circle, round.—Denom. עֲיָק.
- 2. (cmp. עוּג) to hollow out.—Denom. עוּקָה.
- 3. to press.—Denom. עָקָה.
- (b. h.) to press, make a rut (in the ground).]
עוּק ²
- (= h. צוּק) to be narrow, pressed.—Perf. עָק; part. עָק, עָיֵיק, (עִיִק) עָיק. Targ. Is. XLIX, 20.—Trnsf. to feel pain, disgust; to be sick of. Targ. Jud. XVI, 16 (h. text קצר). Targ. O. Gen. XXVII, 46 (Y. Ithpe.; h. text קצתי); a. fr.—V. עָיְקָא.—ע׳ ל־ = (h. צר ל־) to be in distress, fear, anxiety. Targ. Ps. XXXI, 10, a. e. עִיק Ms. (ed. עַיִק, עֲיַק noun); v. עֲיָק. Targ. II Sam. XXII, 7 עייקא ed. Lag. (ed. Wil. עָקָא); Targ. Ps. XVIII, 7 עָקָא Ms. (ed. עָיְקָא, עָיְי׳). Targ. O. Deut. IV, 30 יֵעוֹק (ed. Berl. a. Y. תיעוק). Targ. O. Num. XXII, 3 (Y. אתיעקו, v. יְעַק); a. fr.—[Gitt. 78ᵃ עייק, עויק Ar., v. עֲדַק.]
- to press, trouble, annoy, distress. Targ. Ex. XXIII, 9 (h. text לחץ). Ib. 22 (h. text צרר). Targ. Jud. XVI, 16; a. fr.—Y. Kil. IX, 32ᵇ; Y. Keth. XII, 35ᵃ bot. חד שינא מעיקא לי one tooth annoys me. Gen. R. s. 14 [read:] לא … עקתיה אלא דאתית לאָעָקָא ליה has this man (I) not enough trouble that thou camest to trouble him?; Midr. Till. to Ps. II אלא אף את אתי לאעקא ליה (read: אתית); Yalk. ib. 621 אלא דאת מעיקא ליה (read: מְעִיקַת). Y. Ber. II, 4ᵈ top למחר … ואינון מְעִיקִין לון to-morrow they will be with us, and they trouble us (by treading upon our graves); a. e.—Part. pass. מְעִיק troubled, feeling dread. Targ. Is. VII, 16 (h. text קץ). Targ. I Sam. XXII, 2 (not מָעִיק).
- to be distressed, sick. Targ. Y. Gen. XXVII, 46 (v. supra).—Targ. Job XXXVI, 16 יִתְּעַק, v. תְּעַק.]
- to be narrowed in. Targ. Job XVIII, 7, v. יְעַק.
עֲוָק
- (עוּק h.)rundle of a ladder.—Pl. עֲוָקִים, עֲוָקִין, עֲוָו׳. Tanḥ. Vayetse 2; Pesik. Baḥod., p. 151ᵃ; Lev. R. s. 29, a. e., v. חַוָּוק. Y. B. Bath. III, end, 14ᵇ עד ג׳ ע׳ ככסא (not בכסא) a ladder of three or less rundles is considered a stool; Y. Sabb. III, end, 6ᶜ עד ג׳ ככסא (corr. acc.).
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 2 distinct written forms H5781 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| מֵעִ֖יק | Verb, Hiphil, Participle Active, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Amos 2:13 | 1 |
| תָּעִיק֙ | Verb, Hiphil, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Feminine, Singular | Amos 2:13 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H5781, 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
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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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