Strong's Definition
a primitive root; to strike with more or less violence (beat, fell, corrode); by implication (of attack) to knock together, i.e. surround or circulate
KJV Usage: compass (about, -ing), cut down, destroy, go round (about), inclose, round
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
נָקַף (na.qaph) — to strike. 1) to strike, strike off 1a) (Piel) to strike off skin Aramaic equivalent: ne.qash (נְקַשׁ "to knock" H5368)
נָקַף (na.qaph) — to surround. 1) to go around, compass, round 1a) (Qal) to go around 1b) (Hiphil) 1b1) to go around, surround, encompass, enclose 1b2) to make the round, complete the circuit 1b3) to make round, round off
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
verb · נֹקֶף
Non-Whole | verb pi, verb hif
to strip off, to cut off, to remove = causative action by which humans use a knife, razor, or axe to remove part of a larger object
Uncover | verb pi
to be peeled of exact meaning unsure; possibly: = causative process by which a layer that covers an object is removed
verb · נִקְפָּה · תְּקוּפָה
Space | verb hif
to surround, to encompass = state in which an object is located in a circle around another object
Space | verb hif
to surround, to encompass = action by which humans take position in a full or partial circle around a person or object, ► either to protect or to attack
2KI 6:14 · 2KI 11:8 · 2CH 23:7 · PSA 17:9 · PSA 22:17 · PSA 88:18
Control | verb hif
to envelop, to enclose literally: to surround; hence: = causative action by which deities cause humans to be surrounded on all sides by an object ► that does not allow them to escape
Unsafe | verb hif
to surround, to envelop literally: to surround (someone with an event); hence: = causative process by which deities cause humans to undergo certain events without having the ability to escape
Move | verb hif
to go around = action by which humans move in a full or partial circle
Happen | verb hif, verb qal
to run (one's) round literally: to go around; hence: = process by which a cycle of activities has been completed and a new cycle begins
Happen | verb hif
to encompass, to go around literally: to go around; hence: = process by which a certain event starts taking place all over a certain area
1 JOB 19:26 MT NJPS HOTTP-C "will have been peeled off" RSV NIV NRSV ESV "has been destroyed" GNT "eaten by disease" | NJB וְאַחַר עֻרִי זקפני אתו "after my awakening, he will set me close to him" | REB וְאָחֻר עדי נזקף אתי = "I shall discern my witness standing at my side"
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
[נָקַף] vb. strike off Niph. and the thickets of the forest shall be struck away
Pi. after my skin, which they have struck off
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[נָקַף] vb. go around (intrans.) Qal let feasts go around
Hiph. go around, surround, encompass
make the round, i.e. complete the circuit
make round, round off (lit.)
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