Cleft
נָקִיקStrong’s H5357naqiq (na-qiq)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Naqiq is the Hebrew word usually translated “clefts of”, “cleft of” and “from clefts of”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“And they shall come, and shall rest all of them in the desolate valleys, and in the holes of the rocks, and upon all thorns, and upon all bushes.”
Meaning
- Cleft (of a rock)
How it's translated
- and in clefts of 1
- in cleft of 1
- and from clefts of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Jeremiah 2
- Isaiah 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Jeremiah 13:4Take the girdle that thou hast got, which is upon thy loins, and arise, go to Euphrates, and hide it there in a hole of the rock.
- Jeremiah 16:16Behold, I will send for many fishers, saith the LORD, and they shall fish them; and after will I send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks.
Hebrew dictionary
נָקִיק naqiq · cleft
cleft (of a rock)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “cleft” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
CLEFT, participle passive
of cleave. Divided; split; parted asunder.
All definitions and other forms of “cleft”
CLEFT, noun
- A space or opening made by splitting; a crack; a crevice; as the cleft of a rock. Isaiah 2:21
- A disease in horses; a crack on the bought of the pastern.
- A piece made by splitting; as a cleft of wood.
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.