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Lexicon :: Strong's H3243 - yānaq

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יָנַק
Transliteration
yānaq
Pronunciation
yaw-nak'
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive root
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TWOT Reference: 874

Strong’s Definitions

יָנַק yânaq, yaw-nak'; a primitive root; to suck; causatively, to give milk:—milch, nurse(-ing mother), (give, make to) suck(-ing child, -ling).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 32x

The KJV translates Strong's H3243 in the following manner: suck (14x), nurse (7x), suckling (6x), sucking child (3x), milch (1x), nursing mothers (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 32x
The KJV translates Strong's H3243 in the following manner: suck (14x), nurse (7x), suckling (6x), sucking child (3x), milch (1x), nursing mothers (1x).

  1. to suckle, nurse, suck

    1. (Qal)

      1. to suck

      2. suckling, babe (subst)

    2. (Hiphil)

      1. to give suck to, nurse

      2. nursing, nursing woman, nurse (participle)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
יָנַק yânaq, yaw-nak'; a primitive root; to suck; causatively, to give milk:—milch, nurse(-ing mother), (give, make to) suck(-ing child, -ling).
STRONGS H3243: Abbreviations
† [יָנַק] verb suck (Late Hebrew id.; Aramaic יְנַק, bdb041302, and derivatives; Assyrian êniḳu, suck, SASmAssurbanipal i, Gloss, mušeniḳtu, nurse, JenZA, 1886, 402) —
Qal Perfect וְיָנַקְתְּ consecutive Isaiah 60:16; וִינַקְתֶּם Isaiah 66:12; Imperfect יִינָ֑ק Job 20:16; אִינָ֑ק Job 3:12; תִּינָ֑קִי Isaiah 60:16; יִינָ֑קוּ Deuteronomy 33:19; תִּינְקוּ Isaiah 66:11; Participle יוֺנֵק Deuteronomy 32:25 + 7 times; יֹנֵק Numbers 11:12; יוֺנְקִים Psalm 8:3; יוֺנְקֵי Joel 2:16; — suck, of infant at mother's breast, absolute Job 3:12; metaphor of abundance and honour of Jerusalem in future, Isaiah 66:11 absolute; followed by accusative of breast Isaiah 60:16; accusative of milk Isaiah 60:16; Isaiah 66:12; followed by accusative ראֹשׁ פְּתָנִים Job 20:16 of punishment of wicked; participle followed by accusative יוֺנֵק שְׁדֵי אִמִּי Songs 8:1; construct יוֺנְקֵישָֿׁדַיִם Joel 2:16; elsewhere as subt., suckling, babe Numbers 11:12; Deuteronomy 32:25 (opposed to אִישׁ שֵׂיבָה); || עוֺלֵל 1 Samuel 15:3; 1 Samuel 22:19; Psalm 8:3; Jeremiah 44:7; Lamentations 2:11; || עוֺלָל Lamentations 4:4; compare Joel 2:16; || גָּמוּל Isaiah 11:8; — on Isaiah 53:2 see יוֺנֵק below.
Hiph. Perfect הֵינִ֫יקָה Genesis 21:7; הֵנִ֫יקוּ Lamentations 4:3; Imperfect suffix וַיֵּנִקֵ֫הוּ Deuteronomy 32:13; 3rd person feminine singular תֵּינִק Exodus 2:7; וַתֵּ֫נֶק 1 Samuel 1:23; וַתְּנִיקֵ֫הוּ Exodus 2:9; Imperative feminine singular suffix הֵינִקִ֫הוּ Exodus 2:9; Infinitive לְהֵינִיק 1 Kings 3:21; Participle מֵינֶ֫קֶת Exodus 2:7; construct id. Genesis 35:8; מֵנִקְתּוֺ 2 Kings 11:2; מֵינִקְתּוֺ 2 Chronicles 22:11; מֵנִקְתָּהּ Genesis 24:59; מֵינִיקוֺת Genesis 32:16; מֵינִיקִתַיִךְ Isaiah 49:23; — give suck to, nurse, followed by accusative Genesis 21:7; 1 Kings 3:21; Exodus 2:7, 9; 1 Samuel 1:23; cause to suck honey, figurative Deuteronomy 32:13 (2 accusative); of animals Lamentations 4:3 followed by accusative; participle feminine = nursing, אִשָּׁה מֵינֶקֶת Exodus 2:7 literally a nursing woman, a nurse; מ׳ alone as substantive = nurse Genesis 24:59 (J), Genesis 35:8 (E; דְּבֹרָה), 2 Kings 11:2; 2 Chronicles 22:11; metaphor Isaiah 49:23; of camels גְּמַלִּים מֵינִיקוֺת Genesis 32:16.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

21:7; 21:7; 24:59; 24:59; 32:16; 32:16; 35:8; 35:8

Exodus

2:7; 2:7; 2:7; 2:7; 2:9; 2:9; 2:9

Numbers

11:12; 11:12

Deuteronomy

32:13; 32:13; 32:25; 32:25; 33:19

1 Samuel

1:23; 1:23; 15:3; 22:19

1 Kings

3:21; 3:21

2 Kings

11:2; 11:2

2 Chronicles

22:11; 22:11

Job

3:12; 3:12; 20:16; 20:16

Psalms

8:3; 8:3

Song of Songs

8:1

Isaiah

11:8; 49:23; 49:23; 53:2; 60:16; 60:16; 60:16; 60:16; 66:11; 66:11; 66:12; 66:12

Jeremiah

44:7

Lamentations

2:11; 4:3; 4:3; 4:4

Joel

2:16; 2:16; 2:16

H3243

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Strong's Number H3243 matches the Hebrew יָנַק (yānaq),
which occurs 32 times in 30 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 21:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:7 - And she added, “Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne him a son in his old age.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:59

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:59 - So they sent their sister Rebekah on her way, along with her nurse and Abraham’s servant and his men.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:15 - thirty female camels with their young, forty cows and ten bulls, and twenty female donkeys and ten male donkeys.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:8 - Now Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died and was buried under the oak outside Bethel. So it was named Allon Bakuth.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 2:7

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:7 - Then his sister asked Pharaoh’s daughter, “Shall I go and get one of the Hebrew women to nurse the baby for you?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 2:9

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:9 - Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Take this baby and nurse him for me, and I will pay you.” So the woman took the baby and nursed him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:12 - Did I conceive all these people? Did I give them birth? Why do you tell me to carry them in my arms, as a nurse carries an infant, to the land you promised on oath to their ancestors?

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:13 - He made him ride on the heights of the land and fed him with the fruit of the fields. He nourished him with honey from the rock, and with oil from the flinty crag,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 32:25

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:25 - In the street the sword will make them childless; in their homes terror will reign. The young men and young women will perish, the infants and those with gray hair.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 33:19

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 33:19 - They will summon peoples to the mountain and there offer the sacrifices of the righteous; they will feast on the abundance of the seas, on the treasures hidden in the sand.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:23 - “Do what seems best to you,” her husband Elkanah told her. “Stay here until you have weaned him; only may the LORD make good his[fn] word.” So the woman stayed at home and nursed her son until she had weaned him.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:3 - Now go, attack the Amalekites and totally destroy[fn] all that belongs to them. Do not spare them; put to death men and women, children and infants, cattle and sheep, camels and donkeys.’ ”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 22:19 - He also put to the sword Nob, the town of the priests, with its men and women, its children and infants, and its cattle, donkeys and sheep.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:21 - The next morning, I got up to nurse my son—and he was dead! But when I looked at him closely in the morning light, I saw that it wasn’t the son I had borne.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 11:2 - But Jehosheba, the daughter of King Jehoram[fn] and sister of Ahaziah, took Joash son of Ahaziah and stole him away from among the royal princes, who were about to be murdered. She put him and his nurse in a bedroom to hide him from Athaliah; so he was not killed.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 22:11 - But Jehosheba,[fn] the daughter of King Jehoram, took Joash son of Ahaziah and stole him away from among the royal princes who were about to be murdered and put him and his nurse in a bedroom. Because Jehosheba,[fn] the daughter of King Jehoram and wife of the priest Jehoiada, was Ahaziah’s sister, she hid the child from Athaliah so she could not kill him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:12 - Why were there knees to receive me and breasts that I might be nursed?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:16 - He will suck the poison of serpents; the fangs of an adder will kill him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 8:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 8:2 - Through the praise of children and infants you have established a stronghold against your enemies, to silence the foe and the avenger.

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 8:1

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 8:1 - If only you were to me like a brother, who was nursed at my mother’s breasts! Then, if I found you outside, I would kiss you, and no one would despise me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 11:8 - The infant will play near the cobra’s den, and the young child will put its hand into the viper’s nest.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 49:23

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:23 - Kings will be your foster fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers. They will bow down before you with their faces to the ground; they will lick the dust at your feet. Then you will know that I am the LORD; those who hope in me will not be disappointed.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 60:16

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 60:16 - You will drink the milk of nations and be nursed at royal breasts. Then you will know that I, the LORD, am your Savior, your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 66:11 - For you will nurse and be satisfied at her comforting breasts; you will drink deeply and delight in her overflowing abundance.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 66:12

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 66:12 - For this is what the LORD says: “I will extend peace to her like a river, and the wealth of nations like a flooding stream; you will nurse and be carried on her arm and dandled on her knees.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:7 - “Now this is what the LORD God Almighty, the God of Israel, says: Why bring such great disaster on yourselves by cutting off from Judah the men and women, the children and infants, and so leave yourselves without a remnant?

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 2:11

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:11 - My eyes fail from weeping, I am in torment within; my heart is poured out on the ground because my people are destroyed, because children and infants faint in the streets of the city.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 4:3

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:3 - Even jackals offer their breasts to nurse their young, but my people have become heartless like ostriches in the desert.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 4:4

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:4 - Because of thirst the infant’s tongue sticks to the roof of its mouth; the children beg for bread, but no one gives it to them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Joe 2:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:16 - Gather the people, consecrate the assembly; bring together the elders, gather the children, those nursing at the breast. Let the bridegroom leave his room and the bride her chamber.
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