UBS Hebrew Dictionary Article

Form 1

Part of speech: nsm

Related lemmas: נקף

Sense 1: beating (a tree to harvest its fruits)

Semantic domains: Impact (002001001023)

Core domains: Agriculture (007)

Definition: = action by which humans insert a stick between the branches of an olive tree and thrash it back and forth, shaking the branches until most or all the olives drop off

Show passage in OET: ISA 17:6

OET-RV ISA 17:6

6 ≈ There’ll be a few stalks left over,
⇔ like beating an olive tree to ge the two or three olives at the top,
⇔ or four or five on the upper branches.
§ That’s what Yisrael’s (Israel) god Yahweh says.

OET-LV ISA 17:6

6 And_it _will _be _left in/on/over_him/it gleanings like_the_beating _of an _olive _tree two three olives at_the_top _of the_top four five on_branches _of_its fruit-bearing the _utterance _of YHWH the _god _of Yisrā^ʼēl/(Israel).

Show passage in OET: ISA 24:13

OET-RV ISA 24:13

13 It’ll be like that all over the world—among the nations
⇔ like when an olive tree is beaten to shake the fruit off
⇔ or like the few left-over grapes when the grape harvest is finished.

OET-LV ISA 24:13

13 If/because thus it _will _be in_the _midst _of the_earth/land in _the_middle the_peoples like_the_beating _of an _olive _tree like_gleanings if the_grape _harvest it _has _come _to _an _end.

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UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew

נֹקֶף

Form 1

Sense 1: beating (a tree to harvest its fruits)