הוקע
Hebrew
Etymology
Passive of הוֹקִיעַ (hokía, “to hang”).
Pronunciation
- (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA(key): /(h)uˈka/
Verb
הוּקַע • (huká) (huf'al construction, active counterpart הוֹקִיעַ)
- (Biblical Hebrew) to be hanged
- Tanach, 2 Samuel 21:13b, with translation of the Jewish Publication Society:
- וַיַּאַסְפוּ אֶת־עַצְמוֹת הַמּוּקָעִים׃
- And they gathered the bones of them that were hanged.
Verb
הוֹקַע • (hoká)
- (Biblical Hebrew) Masculine singular imperative of הוֹקִיעַ (hokía).
References
- H3363 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Klein, Ernest (1987) “יקע”, in A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Hebrew Language for Readers of English[1], Jerusalem: Carta, →ISBN, page 263c