Yâqaʻ — H3363

Definition

verb

properly, to sever oneself, i.e. (by implication) to be dislocated; figuratively, to abandon; causatively, to impale (and thus allow to drop to pieces by rotting)

1. to be dislocated, be alienated
1. (Qal) to be dislocated, be torn away, be alienated
2. (Hiphil)
1. to execute slowly (by exposure or impalation)
2. to hang
3. (Hophal) to be executed

Usually translated as

be alienated, hang, depart, be out of joint

Origin

a primitive root

Greek equivalents

• aphístēmi (G868)
• paradeigmatízō (G3856)

Occurrences

Yâqaʻ occurs 8 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Genesis (1), Numbers (1), 2 Samuel (3), Jeremiah (1), Ezekiel (2)

• Genesis 32:25 — And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob’s thigh was out of joint (וַתֵּ֙קַע֙), as he wrestled with him.
• Numbers 25:4 — And the LORD said unto Moses, Take all the heads of the people, and hang them up (וְהוֹקַ֥ע) before the LORD against the sun, that the fierce anger of the LORD may be turned away from Israel.
• 2 Samuel 21:6 — Let seven men of his sons be delivered unto us, and we will hang (וְהוֹקַֽעֲנוּם֙) them up unto the LORD in Gibeah of Saul, whom the LORD did choose. And the king said, I will give them.
• 2 Samuel 21:9 — And he delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged (וַיֹּקִיעֻ֤ם) them in the hill before the LORD: and they fell all seven together, and were put to death in the days of harvest, in the first days, in the beginning of barley harvest.
• 2 Samuel 21:13 — And he brought up from thence the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son; and they gathered the bones of them that were hanged (הַמּוּקָעִֽים).
• Jeremiah 6:8 — Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul depart (תֵּקַ֥ע) from thee; lest I make thee desolate, a land not inhabited.
• Ezekiel 23:17 — And the Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their whoredom, and she was polluted with them, and her mind was alienated (וַתֵּ֥קַע) from them.
• Ezekiel 23:18 — So she discovered her whoredoms, and discovered her nakedness: then my mind was alienated (וַתֵּ֤קַע) from her, like as my mind was alienated from her sister.