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נְסַק nᵉçaq — (Aramaic) corresponding to H5266

pronounced nes-ak' · Strong's H5267 · 3 occurrences in the Aramaic Bible · 2 stems: Haph'el, Hoph'al

Translated in the KJV as take up.

(Aramaic) corresponding to H5266.

nᵉçaq in each stem

Haph'el

Causative · active — causing someone or something to do the action; the subject does it

Perfect (qatal) 1Infinitive construct 1

הַסִּ֨קוּ֙ Dan 3:22 Perfect (qatal), 3rd person masculine plural

Therefore because the king’s commandment was urgent, and the furnace exceeding hot, the flame of the fire slew those men that took up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed–nego. (KJV)

לְהַנְסָקָ֣ה Dan 6:24 Infinitive construct

And the king commanded, and they brought those men which had accused Daniel, and they cast them into the den of lions, them, their children, and their wives; and the lions had the mastery of them, and brake all their bones in pieces or ever they came at the bottom of the den. (KJV)

Hoph'al

Causative · passive — causing someone or something to do the action; the subject has it done to them

Perfect (qatal) 1

וְהֻסַּ֨ק Dan 6:24 Perfect (qatal), 3rd person masculine singular

And the king commanded, and they brought those men which had accused Daniel, and they cast them into the den of lions, them, their children, and their wives; and the lions had the mastery of them, and brake all their bones in pieces or ever they came at the bottom of the den. (KJV)

What the stems mean

A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›

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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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