To dislocate/hang
יָקַעStrong’s H3363yaqa (ya-qa)
Appears in 8 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Yaqa is the Hebrew word usually translated “it was alienated”, “it was dislocated” and “impale”. It appears in 8 verses of the Old Testament.
“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, as he wrestled with him.”
Meaning
- To be dislocated, be alienated(Qal) to be dislocated, be torn away, be alienated · (Hiphil) · (Hophal) to be executed
How it's translated
- and it was alienated 2
- and it was dislocated 1
- and impale 1
- and we will impale them 1
- and they impaled them 1
- the impaled 1
- it should be alienated 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 2 Samuel 3
- Ezekiel 2
- Genesis 1
- Numbers 1
- Jeremiah 1
5 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Numbers 25:4And the LORD said unto Moses, Take all the heads of the people, and hang them up before the LORD against the sun, that the fierce anger of the LORD may be turned away from Israel.
- 2 Samuel 21:6Let seven men of his sons be delivered unto us, and we will hang them up unto the LORD in Gibeah of Saul, whom the LORD did choose. And the king said, I will give them.
- 2 Samuel 21:9And he delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged 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 21:13And 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.
- Jeremiah 6:8Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul depart from thee; lest I make thee desolate, a land not inhabited.
- Ezekiel 23:17And 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 from them.
Hebrew dictionary
יָקַע yaqa · to dislocate/hang
1) to be dislocated, be alienated 1a) (Qal) to be dislocated, be torn away, be alienated 1b) (Hiphil) 1b1) to execute slowly (by exposure or impalation) 1b2) to hang 1c) (Hophal) to be executed
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.