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יָנַק (H3243)

yânaq

yaw-nak'

a primitive root; to suck; causatively, to give milk; milch, nurse(-ing mother), (give, make to) suck(-ing child, -ling).

Brown–Driver–Briggs

[יָנַק] vb. suck
Qal suck, of infant at mother's breast
Hiph. give suck to, nurse

From Brown, Driver, and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), in the public domain.


30 occurrences

Shown in the King James Version (KJV), whichever translation you read in — it is the text these numbers are tagged against.

  • Genesis 21:7
    And she said, Who would have said unto Abraham, that Sarah should have given children suck? for I have born him a son in his old age.
  • Genesis 24:59
    And they sent away Rebekah their sister, and her nurse, and Abraham's servant, and his men.
  • Genesis 32:15
    Thirty milch camels with their colts, forty kine, and ten bulls, twenty she asses, and ten foals.
  • Genesis 35:8
    But Deborah Rebekah's nurse died, and she was buried beneath Bethel under an oak: and the name of it was called Allonbachuth.
  • Exodus 2:7
    Then said his sister to Pharaoh's daughter, Shall I go and call to thee a nurse of the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for thee?
  • Exodus 2:9
    And Pharaoh's daughter said unto her, Take this child away, and nurse it for me, and I will give thee thy wages. And the woman took the child, and nursed it.
  • Numbers 11:12
    Have I conceived all this people? have I begotten them, that thou shouldest say unto me, Carry them in thy bosom, as a nursing father beareth the sucking child, unto the land which thou swarest unto their fathers?
  • Deuteronomy 32:13
    He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock;
  • Deuteronomy 32:25
    The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of gray hairs.
  • Deuteronomy 33:19
    They shall call the people unto the mountain; there they shall offer sacrifices of righteousness: for they shall suck of the abundance of the seas, and of treasures hid in the sand.