Midvash

נָקַעnâqaʻ

be [severed, figurative] alienated, estranged

Pronunciation: naw-kah' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H5361

Meanings

Qal: my soul was estranged from (Ezekiel 23:18; Ezekiel 23:22; Ezekiel 23:28)

Where it appears

Appears 3 times in the Bible.

  • Ezekiel 23:18 “In the same way, I became disgusted with Oholibah and rejected her, just as I had rejected her sister, because she flaunted herself before them and gave herself to satisfy their lusts.
  • Ezekiel 23:22 “Therefore, Oholibah, this is what the Sovereign Lord says: I will send your lovers against you from every direction—those very nations from which you turned away in disgust.
  • Ezekiel 23:28 “For this is what the Sovereign Lord says: I will surely hand you over to your enemies, to those you loathe, those you rejected.

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).