- Original: נקב
- Transliteration: Naqab
- Phonetic: naw-kab'
- Definition:
1. to pierce, perforate, bore, appoint
a. (Qal)
1. to pierce, bore
2. to prick off, designate
b. (Niphal) to be pricked off, be designated, be specified
2. (Qal) to curse, blaspheme
- Origin: a primitive root
- TWOT entry: 1409
- Part(s) of speech: Verb
- Strong's: A primitive root; to puncture literally (to perforate with more or less violence) or figuratively (to specify designate libel): - appoint blaspheme bore curse express with holes name pierce strike through.
Total KJV Occurrences: 22
• Appoint, 1
Genesis 30:28
• blasphemed, 1
Leviticus 24:11
• blasphemeth, 2
Leviticus 24:16(2)
• bore, 1
Job 41:2
• bored, 1
2 Kings 12:9
• curse, 2
Job 3:8;
Proverbs 24:24
• cursed, 1
Job 5:3
• expressed, 6
Numbers 1:17;
1 Chronicles 12:31;
1 Chronicles 16:41;
2 Chronicles 28:15;
2 Chronicles 31:19;
Ezra 8:20
• holes, 1
Haggai 1:6
• name, 1
Isaiah 62:2
• named, 1
Amos 6:1
• pierce, 2
2 Kings 18:21;
Isaiah 36:6
• pierceth, 1
Job 40:24
• through, 1
Habakkuk 3:14