לקק

Onomatopoeic in origin, compare English lap, German schlabbern or Ancient Greek λάπτω (láptō). Cognate with Arabic لَقَّ (laqqa, “to lap”).

• (Biblical Hebrew) IPA^(key): /laːˈqaq/
• (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA^(key): /laˈkak/

לָקַק • (lakák) (pa'al construction, future יָלֹק)

1. to lap, lick (of animals)
   • Tanach, Judges 7:5, with translation of the Jewish Publication Society:

     וַיּוֹרֶד אֶת־הָעָם אֶל־הַמָּיִם וַיֹּאמֶר יְהֹוָה אֶל־גִּדְעוֹן כֹּל אֲשֶׁר־יָלֹק בִּלְשׁוֹנוֹ מִן־הַמַּיִם כַּאֲשֶׁר יָלֹק הַכֶּלֶב תַּצִּיג אוֹתוֹ לְבָד וְכֹל אֲשֶׁר־יִכְרַע עַל־בִּרְכָּיו לִשְׁתּוֹת׃

     So he brought down the people unto the water; and the LORD said unto Gideon: ‘Everyone that lappeth of the water with his tongue, as a dog lappeth, him shalt thou set by himself; likewise every one that boweth down upon his knees to drink.’

   • Tanach, 1 Kings 22:38, with translation of the Jewish Publication Society:

     וַיִּשְׁטֹף אֶת־הָרֶכֶב עַל בְּרֵכַת שֹׁמְרוֹן וַיָּלֹקּוּ הַכְּלָבִים אֶת־דָּמוֹ וְהַזֹּנוֹת רָחָצוּ כִּדְבַר יְהֹוָה אֲשֶׁר דִּבֵּר׃

     And they washed the chariot by the pool of Samaria; and the dogs licked up his blood; the harlots also washed themselves there; according unto the word of the LORD which He spoke.

• לִקֽלֵק (liklék)
• הִתְלַקְלֵק (hitlaklék)

לִקֵּק • (likék) (pi'el construction)

1. defective spelling of ליקק.

לֻקַּק • (lukák) (pu'al construction)

1. defective spelling of לוקק.

• H3952 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Klein, Ernest (1987) “לקק”, in A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Hebrew Language for Readers of English‎^[1], Jerusalem: Carta, →ISBN, page 306a
• Jastrow, Marcus (1903) A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature‎^[2], London, New York: Luzac & Co., G.P. Putnam's Sons, page 719b
• “לקק” in the Hebrew Terms Database of the Academy of Hebrew Language

• קק״ל