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H5134 נוּק (nûwq) nook
Hebrew
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Strong's Definition

a primitive root; to suckle

KJV Usage: nurse

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

נוּק (nuq) — to suckle. (Hiphil) to suckle, nurse

UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew

verb · יֹונֵק · יֹונֶקֶת · יְנִיקָה

Ingest | verb qal | ≈ מצץ

to suck = action by which newborn children drink milk from their mother's breasts

JOB 3:12 · SNG 8:1 · ISA 60:16 · ISA 60:16 · ISA 66:11 · ISA 66:12

Ingest | verb hif

to nurse = causative action by which a human or animal mother feeds her newborn child from her breasts

GEN 21:7 · GEN 32:16 · EXO 2:7 · EXO 2:9 · EXO 2:9 · 1SA 1:23 · 1KI 3:21 · LAM 4:3

Ingest | verb qal

to suck literally: to suck; = action by which humans ingest food

JOB 20:16

People | verb qal | ≈ גמל · עֹולֵל

baby, infant = a child that is still drinking milk from its mother's breasts

NUM 11:12 · DEU 32:25 · 1SA 15:3 · 1SA 22:19 · PSA 8:3 · ISA 11:8 · JER 44:7 · LAM 2:11 · LAM 4:4 · JOL 2:16

Possess | verb qal

Collocation: מֵינֶקֶת

to acquire literally: to suck; hence: = action by which humans acquire possessions

DEU 33:19

Possess | verb hif

to provide literally: to nurse; hence: = causative action by which deities provide humans with goods

DEU 32:13

Professions

nurse = a woman whose responsibility it is to breastfeed someone else's baby

GEN 24:59 · GEN 35:8 · EXO 2:7 · 2KI 11:2 · 2CH 22:11 · ISA 49:23

Enio R. Mueller

UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew © United Bible Societies, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

[נוּק] vb. whence might come, Hiph. suckle, nurse;—Ex 2:9 ref

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