To whip
נָכָאStrong’s H5217nakah (na-kah)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Nakah is the Hebrew word usually translated “have been scourged”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.”
Meaning
- (Niph) to strike, scourge, smite
How it's translated
- they have been scourged 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
נָכָא nakah · to whip
(Niph) to strike, scourge, smite
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “whip” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
WHIP, verb transitive
[Latin, a sweeping throw or thrust.]
- To strike with a lash or sweeping cord; as, to whip a horse.
- To sew slightly.
- To drive with lashes; as, to whip a top.
- To punish with the whip; as, to whip a vagrant; to whip one thirty nine lashes; to whip a perverse boy.
All definitions and other forms of “whip”
- To lash with sarcasm.
- To strike; to thrash; to beat out, as grain, by striking; as, to whip wheat. [Not in use int he United States.]
WHIP, verb intransitive
To move nimbly; to start suddenly and run; or to turn and run; as, the boy whipped away in an instant; he whipped round the corner; he whipped into the house, and was out of wight in a moment.
WHIP, noun
- An instrument for driving horses or other teams, or for correction, consisting of a lash tied to a handle or rod.
- In ships, a small tackle, used to hoist light bodies.
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.