To leap
זָנַקStrong’s H2187zanaq (za-naq)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Zanaq is the Hebrew word usually translated “leaps forth”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“And of Dan he said, Dan is a lion’s whelp: he shall leap from Bashan.”
Meaning
- (Piel) to leap, spring
How it's translated
- he leaps forth 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Deuteronomy 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
זָנַק zanaq · to leap
(Piel) to leap, spring
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “leap” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
LEAP, verb intransitive
[Latin labor, perhaps. Heb.]
- To spring or rise from the ground with both feet, as man, or with all the feet, as other animals; to jump; to vault; as, a man leaps over a fence, or leaps upon a horse.
- To spring or move suddenly; as, to leap from a horse.
- To rush with violence.“And the man in whom the evil spirit was, leaped on them and overcame them -” Acts 19:16
- To spring; to bound; to skip; as, to leap for joy.
All definitions and other forms of “leap”
- To fly; to start. Job 41:19
LEAP, verb transitive
- To pass over by leaping; to spring or bound from one side to the other; as, to leap a wall, a gate or a gulf; to leap a stream. [But the phrase is elliptical, and over is understood.]
- To compress; as the male of certain beasts.
LEAP, noun
- A jump; a spring; a bound; act of leaping.
- Space passed by leaping.
- A sudden transition of passing.
- The space that may be passed at a bound.
- Embrace of animals.
- Hazard, or effect of leaping.
- A basket; a weel for fish. [Not in use.]
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.