To lick
לָקַקStrong’s H3952laqaq (la-qaq)
Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Laqaq is the Hebrew word usually translated “lap up”, “it laps up” and “those lapped”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
“So he brought down the people unto the water: and the LORD said unto Gideon, Every one that lappeth of the water with his tongue, as a dog lappeth, him shalt thou set by himself; likewise every one that boweth down upon his knees to drink.”
Meaning
- To lap, lick, lap up(Qal) to lap, lap up · (Piel) to lap up
How it's translated
- he will lap up 1
- it laps up 1
- those lapped 1
- who lapped 1
- they licked up 1
- they will lick up 1
- and they licked up 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Judges 3
- 1 Kings 2
2 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Judges 7:6And the number of them that lapped, putting their hand to their mouth, were three hundred men: but all the rest of the people bowed down upon their knees to drink water.
- Judges 7:7And the LORD said unto Gideon, By the three hundred men that lapped will I save you, and deliver the Midianites into thine hand: and let all the other people go every man unto his place.
- 1 Kings 21:19And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith the LORD, Hast thou killed, and also taken possession? And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith the LORD, In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick thy blood, even thine.
- 1 Kings 22:38And one washed the chariot in the pool of Samaria; and the dogs licked up his blood; and they washed his armour; according unto the word of the LORD which he spake.
Hebrew dictionary
לָקַק laqaq · to lick
1) to lap, lick, lap up 1a) (Qal) to lap, lap up 1b) (Piel) to lap up
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “lick” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
LICK, verb transitive
[Latin lingo; Gr. See Like and Sleek.]
- To pass or draw the tongue over the surface; as, a dog licks a wound.
- To lap; to take in by the tongue; as, a dog or cat licks milk. 1 Kings 21:19“Now shall this company lick up all that are round about us, as an ox licketh up the grass of the field” Numbers 22:4“His enemies shall lick the dust” Psalms 72:9
All definitions and other forms of “lick”
LICK, noun
In America, a place where beasts of the forest lick for salt, at salt springs.
LICK, noun
- A blow; a stroke. [Not an elegant word.]
- A wash; something rubbed on. [Not in use.]
LICK, verb transitive
To strike repeatedly for punishment; to flog; to chastise with blows. [Not an elegant word; but probably flog, Latin fligo, is from the root of this word.]
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.