To tire
נָקַטStrong’s H5354naqat (na-qat)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Naqat is the Hebrew word usually translated “it loathes”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.”
Meaning
- To loathe, be grieved, feel a loathing(Niphal) to feel loathing against self
How it's translated
- it loathes 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
נָקַט naqat · to tire
1) to loathe, be grieved, feel a loathing 1a) (Niphal) to feel loathing against self
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “tire” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
TIRE, noun
[Heb. tur, a row or series.]
- A tier; a row or rank.
- A head dress; something that encompasses the head. [See Tiara.] Ezekiel 24:17Isaiah 3:18
- Furniture; apparatus; as the tire of war.
- Attire. [See Attire.]
All definitions and other forms of “tire”
- A band or hoop of iron, used to bind the fellies of wheels, to secure them from wearing and breaking; as cart-tire; wagon-tire.
TIRE, verb transitive
To adorn; to attire; to dress; as the head. obsolete [See Attire.]
TIRE, verb transitive
[Latin tero.]
- To weary; to fatigue; to exhaust the strength by toil or labor; as, to tire a horse or an ox.
- To weary; to fatigue; to exhaust the power of attending, or to exhaust patience with dullness or tediousness.
TIRE, verb intransitive
To become weary; to be fatigued; to have the strength fail; to have the patience exhausted. A feeble body soon tires with hard labor.
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.