נָכַר
nâkar · naw-kar'
properly, to scrutinize, i.e. look intently at; hence (with recognition implied), to acknowledge, be acquainted with, care for, respect, revere, or (with suspicion implied), to disregard, ignore, be strange toward, reject, resign, dissimulate (as if ignorant or disowning)
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root;
properly, to scrutinize, i.e. look intently at; hence (with recognition implied), to acknowledge, be acquainted with, care for, respect, revere, or (with suspicion implied), to disregard, ignore, be strange toward, reject, resign, dissimulate (as if ignorant or disowning)
- properly, to scrutinize, i.e. look intently at
- hence, (with recognition implied), to acknowledge, be acquainted with, care for, respect, revere, or (with suspicion implied), to disregard, ignore, be strange toward, reject, resign, dissimulate (as if ignorant or disowning)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: acknowledge, [idiom] could, deliver, discern, dissemble, estrange, feign self to be another, know, take knowledge (notice), perceive, regard, (have) respect, behave (make) self strange(-ly).
Letters
- נNun50
Picture: a sprouting seed, or a fish in water
- Concrete
- seed · sprout · fish · offspring
- Extended
- life · continuation · heir · to perpetuate
- כKaf20
Picture: open palm
- Concrete
- palm · open hand · sole of the foot
- Extended
- to open · to allow · to cover · to tame · like / as
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
the seed, life continuing › the open hand that covers › the head, the highest
The seed, life continuing of the open hand that covers of the head, the highest.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of נָכַר above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
49 occurrences · 49 OT · 0 NT · 44 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- discern2 · 7%
- know2 · 7%
- knew2 · 7%
- to have respect2 · 7%
- whom he shall acknowledge2 · 7%
- and he discerned1 · 3%
- and he knew it1 · 3%
- acknowledged1 · 3%
- and he knew1 · 3%
- them, but made himself strange1 · 3%
- but they knew1 · 3%
- ye shall not respect1 · 3%
- thou shalt not respect1 · 3%
- but he shall acknowledge1 · 3%
- should behave themselves strangely1 · 3%
- him; neither did he acknowledge1 · 3%
- they knew1 · 3%
- that thou shouldest take knowledge1 · 3%
- be he that did take knowledge1 · 3%
- could know1 · 3%
- hath delivered1 · 3%
- took notice1 · 3%
- that she shall feign herself to be another1 · 3%
- why feignest thou thyself to be another1 · 3%
- him: and he knew1 · 3%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.