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נקר
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Hebrew
Etymology
Cognate with Arabic نَقَرَ (naqara, “to dig, bore”) and Aramaic נְקַר. The noun "woodpecker" follows from the verb, and just as in English refers to the bird's characteristic behavior of pecking holes into tree bark to find insects.
Pronunciation
- (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA(key): /naˈkaʁ/
Verb
נָקַר • (nakár) (pa'al construction, future יקור / יִקֹּר)
- to bore, pierce through; gouge out (eyes)
- Tanach, 1 Samuel 11:2, with translation of the Jewish Publication Society:
- שוַיֹּאמֶר אֲלֵיהֶם נָחָשׁ הָעַמּוֹנִי בְּזֹאת אֶכְרֹת לָכֶם בִּנְקוֹר לָכֶם כׇּל־עֵין יָמִין וְשַׂמְתִּיהָ חֶרְפָּה עַל־כׇּל־יִשְׂרָאֵל׃
- And Nahash the Ammonite said unto them: ‘On this condition will I make it with you, that all your right eyes be put out; and I will lay it for a reproach upon all Israel.’
- a. 500 C.E., Babylonian Talmud. Shabbat, 130a.16:
- שֶׁפַּעַם אַחַת גָּזְרָה מַלְכוּת הָרְשָׁעָה גְּזֵרָה עַל יִשְׂרָאֵל שֶׁכׇּל הַמַּנִּיחַ תְּפִילִּין עַל רֹאשׁוֹ — יִקְּרוּ אֶת מוֹחוֹ
- Because on one occasion the wicked empire [of Rome] issued a decree against the Jewish people that, [as punishment], they would pierce the brain of anyone who dons phylacteries on his head.
- to peck (chiefly of birds)
- Tanach, Proverbs 30:17, with translation of the Jewish Publication Society:
- עַיִן תִּלְעַג לְאָב וְתָבֻז לִיקְּהַת־אֵם יִקְּרוּהָ עֹרְבֵי־נַחַל וְיֹאכְלוּהָ בְנֵי־נָשֶׁר׃
- The eye that mocketh at his father, And despiseth to obey his mother, The ravens of the valley shall pick it out, And the young vultures shall eat it.
Conjugation
1 Pronounced נָקַרְתֶּם and נָקַרְתֶּן in informal Modern Hebrew.
2 Rare in Modern Hebrew.
Related terms
- ניקר / נִקֵּר (nikér, “to bore, gouge out”)
Noun
נַקָּר • (nakár) m [pattern: קַטָּל]
Verb
נִקֵּר • (nikér) (pi'el construction)
References
- H5365 in Strong, James (1979), Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Klein, Ernest (1987), “נקר”, in A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Hebrew Language for Readers of English, Jerusalem: Carta, →ISBN, page 426c
- Jastrow, Marcus (1903), A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature, London, New York: Luzac & Co., G.P. Putnam's Sons, page 935a
Further reading
נקריים on the Hebrew Wikipedia.Wikipedia he- Nikkur on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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