נָקַף
nâqaph · naw-kaf'
to strike with more or less violence (beat, fell, corrode); by implication (of attack) to knock together, i.e. surround or circulate
Lexicon
Derivation: 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
- to strike with more or less violence (beat, fell, corrode)
- by implication, (of attack) to knock together, i.e. surround or circulate
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: compass (about, -ing), cut down, destroy, go round (about), inclose, round.
Letters
- נNun50
Picture: a sprouting seed, or a fish in water
- Concrete
- seed · sprout · fish · offspring
- Extended
- life · continuation · heir · to perpetuate
- קQof100
Picture: the back of the head, or the sun on the horizon
- Concrete
- back of the head · rising sun · circle
- Extended
- what is behind · the last · a cycle · to come around again
- פPe80
Picture: an open mouth
- Concrete
- mouth · lips · teeth
- Extended
- to speak · a word · an edge or opening · to scatter speech
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
the seed, life continuing › what comes behind, the returning cycle › to speak, the word
The seed, life continuing of what comes behind, the returning cycle that works to speak, the word.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of נָקַף 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
19 occurrences · 19 OT · 0 NT · 19 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- and go round about2 · 10%
- compassing2 · 10%
- ye shall not round1 · 5%
- going about1 · 5%
- and compassed1 · 5%
- about1 · 5%
- and ye shall compass1 · 5%
- shall compass1 · 5%
- were gone about1 · 5%
- me, and hath compassed1 · 5%
- worms destroy1 · 5%
- who compass me about1 · 5%
- have inclosed1 · 5%
- they compassed1 · 5%
- and he shall cut down1 · 5%
- is gone round about1 · 5%
- let them kill1 · 5%
- me, and compassed1 · 5%
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.