Midvash

נָכַרnâkar

נָכַר: regard, recognize

Pronunciation: naw-kar' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H5234

Meanings

Niph`al: are, recognized (Lamentations 4:8)

Pi`el: regardeth, recognize (Job 34:19; Job 21:29)

Hiph`il: construct (Deuteronomy 33:9; Daniel 11:39; Genesis 27:23)

1. regard, observe, especially with a view to recognition (Genesis 31:32; Genesis 37:32; Genesis 38:25)

2. Recognize, (as formerly known) (Genesis 27:23; Genesis 37:33; Genesis 38:26)

3. Be willing to recognize, acknowledge (Deuteronomy 21:17; Deuteronomy 33:9; Isaiah 63:16)

4. Be acquainted with (Job 7:10; Psalms 103:16; Job 24:17)

5. Distinguish, understand (Ezra 3:13; Job 4:16; Nehemiah 13:24)

Hithpa`el: maketh himself known (Proverbs 20:11)

נכר: act or treat as foreign, or strange; disguise, misconstrue

Niph`al: disguiseth himself, foreign (Proverbs 26:24)

Pi`el: and they have treated, as foreign (1 Samuel 23:7; Jeremiah 19:4; Deuteronomy 32:27)

Hithpa`el: he acted as a stranger toward them; Participle, feign to be a stranger-woman (Genesis 42:7; 1 Kings 14:5; 1 Kings 14:6)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 49 times in the Bible.

  • Genesis 27:23 But he did not recognize Jacob, because Jacob’s hands felt hairy just like Esau’s. So Isaac prepared to bless Jacob.
  • Genesis 31:32 But as for your gods, see if you can find them, and let the person who has taken them die! And if you find anything else that belongs to you, identify it before all these relatives of ours, and I will give it back!” But Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen the household idols.
  • Genesis 37:32 They sent the beautiful robe to their father with this message: “Look at what we found. Doesn’t this robe belong to your son?”
  • Genesis 37:33 Their father recognized it immediately. “Yes,” he said, “it is my son’s robe. A wild animal must have eaten him. Joseph has clearly been torn to pieces!”
  • Genesis 38:25 But as they were taking her out to kill her, she sent this message to her father-in-law: “The man who owns these things made me pregnant. Look closely. Whose seal and cord and walking stick are these?”
  • Genesis 38:26 Judah recognized them immediately and said, “She is more righteous than I am, because I didn’t arrange for her to marry my son Shelah.” And Judah never slept with Tamar again.
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).