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נקם

Strong’s: H5358

Associated OET lemmas: נָקַם

Notes: Passage: OET JOL 3:21
LXX ἐκδικήσω RSV NRSV ESV "I will avenge" REB "I shall avenge" CEV "I will punish" | MT NIV "I will pardon" NJPS "treat as innocent" = נקה

Authors: Steve Berneking

Form 1

Part of speech: vb

Related lemmas: נָקָם · נְקָמָה

Sense 1: to avenge, to take vengeance

Semantic domains: Chastise (002003002006); Relief (002001002023)

Core domains: Recompense (140)

Definition: = action in which humans or deities harm (other) humans in return for an injury or wrong, and so find relief from their anger

Forms: vbqal-; vbhit-; vbpiel; vbnif- (passive); vbhof- (passive)

Synonyms: נחם · נטר · פקד · ריב

Show passage in OET: GEN 4:15

OET-RV GEN 4:15

15 “Very well,”, replied Yahweh and declared, “If anyone kills Kayin, then that person will receive a seven times greater sentence.” Then Yahweh marked Kayin so that no one who found him would kill him,

OET-LV GEN 4:15

15 And_he/it _said to_him/it YHWH therefore any _of one _who_kills _of Qayin/(Cain) sevenfold he _will _be _avenged and_ YHWH _he/it _assigned to/for_Qayin/(Cain) a _sign to_not any _of finding_him/it to _strike DOM_him/it.

Show passage in OET: GEN 4:24

OET-RV GEN 4:24

24 If killers of Kayin (Cain) would be sentenced seven times as much,
⇔ then anyone who kills me should be sentenced seventy-seven times as much.”

OET-LV GEN 4:24

24 If/because sevenfold Qayin/(Cain) he _will _be _avenged and_Lemek seventy and_seven.

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All 32 recorded passages for this sense

GEN: OET GEN 4:15 · OET GEN 4:24

EXO: OET EXO 21:20–21

LEV: OET LEV 19:18 · OET LEV 26:25

NUM: OET NUM 31:2

DEU: OET DEU 32:43

JOS: OET JOS 10:13

JDG: OET JDG 15:7 · OET JDG 16:28

SA1: OET SA1 14:24 · OET SA1 18:25 · OET SA1 24:12

KI2: OET KI2 9:7

EST: OET EST 8:13

PSA: OET PSA 8:2 · OET PSA 44:16 · OET PSA 99:8

ISA: OET ISA 1:24

JER: OET JER 5:9 · OET JER 5:29 · OET JER 9:9 · OET JER 15:15 · OET JER 46:10 · OET JER 50:15 · OET JER 51:36

EZE: OET EZE 24:8 · OET EZE 25:12 · OET EZE 25:15

JOL: OET JOL 3:21

NAH: OET NAH 1:2

Sense 2: NO DATA YET

Definition: NO DATA YET

Show passage in OET: JOL 4:21

OET-RV JOL 3:21

21 and I will declare their blood to be innocent (which I hadn’t done previously),
⇔ because Yahweh resides in Tsiyon (Zion).”

OET-LV JOL 4:21

21  And_I _will _leave _unpunished blood _of_their which_not I _left _unpunished and_YHWH is_dwelling in_Tsiyyōn/(Zion).

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