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
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
Possess | verb hif
to provide literally: to nurse; hence: = causative action by which deities provide humans with goods
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
[נוּק] vb. whence might come, Hiph. suckle, nurse;—Ex 2:9 ref
