נקע

Cognate with Ge'ez ነቀዐ (näḳäʿä, “to be cleft, ruptured”) and Arabic نَقَعَ (naqaʕa). Properly having the same meaning as the related יָקַע (yaká, “to become dislocated”), however in the Tanach only its metaphorical sense can be encountered in the two verses below.

• (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA^(key): /naˈka/

נָקַע • (naká) (pa'al construction)

1. (Biblical Hebrew) to become estranged, alienated
   • Tanach, Ezekiel 23:22a, with translation of the Jewish Publication Society:

     כֵן אׇהֳלִיבָה כֹּה־אָמַר אֲדֹנָי יֱהֹוִה הִנְנִי מֵעִיר אֶת־מְאַהֲבַיִךְ עָלַיִךְ אֵת אֲשֶׁר־נָקְעָה נַפְשֵׁךְ מֵהֶם

     Therefore, O Oholibah, thus saith the Lord GOD: Behold, I will raise up thy lovers against thee, from whom thy soul is alienated

   • Tanach, Ezekiel 23:28, with translation of the Jewish Publication Society:

     כִּי כֹה אָמַר אֲדֹנָי יֱהֹוִה הִנְנִי נֹתְנָךְ בְּיַד אֲשֶׁר שָׂנֵאת בְּיַד אֲשֶׁר־נָקְעָה נַפְשֵׁךְ מֵהֶם׃

     For thus saith the Lord GOD: Behold, I will deliver thee into the hand of them whom thou hatest, into the hand of them from whom thy soul is alienated;

2. (medicine) to sprain

• נֶקַע (néka, “cleft, ravine”)

• H5361 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Klein, Ernest (1987) “נקע”, in A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Hebrew Language for Readers of English‎^[1], Jerusalem: Carta, →ISBN, page 426b