נָקָה
na.qah
“to clear”
Definition
to be (or make) clean (literally or figuratively); by implication (in an adverse sense) to be bare, i.e. extirpated
a primitive root;
- to be empty, be clear, be pure, be free, be innocent, be desolate, be cut off 1a) (Qal) to be empty, be clean, be pure 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to be cleaned out, be purged out 1b2) to be clean, be free from guilt, be innocent 1b3) to be free, be exempt from punishment 1b4) to be free, be exempt from obligation 1c) (Piel) 1c1) to hold innocent, acquit 1c2) to leave unpunished
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Grammar & Morphology
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Hebrew Verb
Occurrences
נָקָה appears 30 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
Now therefore, do not hold him guiltless, for you are a wise man. You know what you ought to do to him to bring his gray head down to Sheol in blood.”
And if the woman is unwilling to follow you, then you are released from this oath of mine. Only do not take my son back there.”
For I am with you to save you,declares the LORD.Though I will completely destroy all the nations to which I have scattered you,I will not completely destroy you.Yet I will discipline you justly,and will by no means leave you unpunished.”
‘The LORD is slow to anger and abounding in loving devotion, forgiving iniquity and transgression. Yet He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished; He will visit the iniquity of the fathers upon their children to the third and fourth generation.’
He who mocks the poor insults their Maker;whoever gloats over calamity will not go unpunished.
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