To tire
נָקַטStrong’s H6962naqat (na-qat)
Appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Naqat is the Hebrew word usually translated “loathe”, “loathed” and “felt disgust”. It appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament.
“Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways:”
Meaning
- To loathe, be grieved, feel a loathing(Niphal) to feel loathing against self
How it's translated
- and you will loathe 2
- i loathed 1
- and i felt disgust 1
- do i loathe 1
- and they will loathe 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 3
- Ezekiel 3
2 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Psalms 119:158I beheld the transgressors, and was grieved; because they kept not thy word.
- Psalms 139:21Do not I hate them, O LORD, that hate thee? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee?
- Ezekiel 6:9And they that escape of you shall remember me among the nations whither they shall be carried captives, because I am broken with their whorish heart, which hath departed from me, and with their eyes, which go a whoring after their idols: and they shall lothe themselves for the evils which they have committed in all their abominations.
- Ezekiel 20:43And there shall ye remember your ways, and all your doings, wherein ye have been defiled; and ye shall lothe yourselves in your own sight for all your evils that ye have committed.
- Ezekiel 36:31Then shall ye remember your own evil ways, and your doings that were not good, and shall lothe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and for your abominations.
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.