To suckle
יָנַקStrong’s H3243yanaq (ya-naq)
Appears in 30 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Yanaq is the Hebrew word usually translated “suckling-child”, “suckling-nurse his” and “suck”. It appears in 30 verses of the Old Testament.
“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.”
Meaning
- To suckle, nurse, suck(Qal) · (Hiphil)
How it's translated
- a suckling-child 4
- suckling-nurse his 2
- and you will suck 2
- and suckling-child 2
- she has suckled 1
- suckling-nurse her 1
- suckling 1
- suckling-nurse of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 5
- Genesis 4
- Deuteronomy 3
- 1 Samuel 3
- Lamentations 3
- Exodus 2
15 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 24:59And they sent away Rebekah their sister, and her nurse, and Abraham’s servant, and his men.
- Genesis 32:15Thirty milch camels with their colts, forty kine, and ten bulls, twenty she asses, and ten foals.
- Genesis 35:8But Deborah Rebekah’s nurse died, and she was buried beneath Bethel under an oak: and the name of it was called Allonbachuth.
- Exodus 2:7Then 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 2:9And 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 11:12Have 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?
Hebrew dictionary
יָנַק yanaq · to suckle
1) to suckle, nurse, suck 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to suck 1a2) suckling, babe (subst) 1b) (Hiphil) 1b1) to give suck to, nurse 1b2) nursing, nursing woman, nurse (participle)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “suckle” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SUCK'LE, noun
A teat. [Not in use.]
All definitions and other forms of “suckle”
SUCK'LE, verb transitive
To give suck to; to nurse at the breast. Romulus and Remus are fabled to have been suckled by a wolf.
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.