עָרַק

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6207

gnaw — used 2 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

Meaning

OpenScriptures lexical index

gnaw tree →

Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עָרַק: vb. gnaw tree →

The whole BDB entry

vb. gnaw (Arabic عَرَقَ id.; Syriac ܥܪܱܩ, Pa.); = Syriac in Lexx., and Pa.; but Syriac usually flee, as 𝔗.— Pt. pl. הַעֹרְקִים צִיָּה Jb 30:3 they who gnaw the dry (ground; fig. of scanty subsistence); sf. עֹרְקַי v 17 my gnawing (pains) do not sleep.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: my gnawing (1); who] gnaw (1).

In the verses

Job 30:3 · tree →

בְּחֶ֥סֶר וּבְכָפָ֗ן גַּ֫לְמ֥וּד הַֽעֹרְקִ֥ים צִיָּ֑ה אֶ֝֗מֶשׁ שׁוֹאָ֥ה וּמְשֹׁאָֽה׃

Word for word: by poverty and by hunger barren [those who].gnaw a.dry.region yesterday devastation and desolation

JPS 1917: They are gaunt with want and famine; they gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of wasteness and desolation.

Job 30:17 · tree →

לַ֗יְלָה עֲ֭צָמַי נִקַּ֣ר מֵעָלָ֑י וְ֝עֹרְקַ֗י לֹ֣א יִשְׁכָּבֽוּן׃

Word for word: night bones my it.has.pierced from on me and my.gnawing [pains] not they rest

JPS 1917: In the night my bones are pierced, and fall from me, and my sinews take no rest.

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Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).

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