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Aramaic

To knock

נְקַשׁStrong’s H5368

neqash (ne-qash)

Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament

In short

Neqash is the Aramaic word usually translated “knocking”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.

“Then the king’s countenance was changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another.”
Daniel 5:6 KJV
Meaning
  1. (P'al) to knock (of knees)
How it's translated
  • knocking 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Daniel 1

1 book in all.

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    Aramaic dictionary

    נְקַשׁ neqash · to knock

    (P'al) to knock (of knees) Aramaic of na.qaph (נָקַף "to strike" H5362A)

    From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

    Webster's 1828 Dictionary

    How the English word “knock” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

    KNOCK, verb intransitive

    nok.

    1. To strike or beat with something thick or heavy; as, to knock with a club or with the fist; to knock at the door.
    2. To drive or be driven against; to strike against; to clash; as when one heavy body knocks against another.
    All definitions and other forms of “knock”

      KNOCK, verb transitive

      nok. To strike; to drive against; as, to knock the head against a post.

      1. To strike a door for admittance; to rap.

      KNOCK, noun

      nok. A blow; a stroke with something thick or heavy.

      1. A stroke on a door, intended as a request for admittance; a rap.

      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 Aramaic, not from any one translation.