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הוּךְ hûwk — to go

pronounced hook · Strong's H1946 · 4 occurrences in the Aramaic Bible · 1 stem: Pe'al

Translated in the KJV as bring again, come, go.

(Aramaic) corresponding to H1981; to go; causatively, to bring.

hûwk in each stem

Pe'al

Simple · active — the plain action; the subject does it

Imperfect (yiqtol) 3Infinitive construct 1

יְהָ֑ךְ Ezra 5:5 Imperfect (yiqtol), 3rd person masculine singular

But the eye of their God was upon the elders of the Jews, that they could not cause them to cease, till the matter came to Darius: and then they returned answer by letter concerning this matter. (KJV)

וִ֠יהָךְ Ezra 6:5 Imperfect (yiqtol), 3rd person masculine singular

And also let the golden and silver vessels of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took forth out of the temple which is at Jerusalem, and brought unto Babylon, be restored, and brought again unto the temple which is at Jerusalem, every one to his place, and place them in the house of God. (KJV)

לִמְהָ֧ךְ Ezra 7:13 Infinitive construct

I make a decree, that all they of the people of Israel, and of his priests and Levites, in my realm, which are minded of their own freewill to go up to Jerusalem, go with thee. (KJV)

What the stems mean

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Morphology from OpenScriptures MorphHB (CC BY 4.0); definitions from Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (public domain); text from the Westminster Leningrad Codex.

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