נָקַרnâqar

bore, pick, dig

Pronunciation: naw-kar' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H5365

Meanings

Qal: both of boring, or picking out eye (Proverbs 30:17; 1 Samuel 11:3)

Pi`el: boring out, boreth (Numbers 16:14; Judges 16:21; Job 30:17)

Pu`al: were digged (Isaiah 51:1)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 6 times in the Bible.

  • Numbers 16:14 What’s more, you haven’t brought us into another land flowing with milk and honey. You haven’t given us a new homeland with fields and vineyards. Are you trying to fool these men? We will not come.”
  • Judges 16:21 So the Philistines captured him and gouged out his eyes. They took him to Gaza, where he was bound with bronze chains and forced to grind grain in the prison.
  • 1 Samuel 11:2 “All right,” Nahash said, “but only on one condition. I will gouge out the right eye of every one of you as a disgrace to all Israel!”
  • Job 30:17 At night my bones are filled with pain, which gnaws at me relentlessly.
  • Proverbs 30:17 The eye that mocks a father and despises a mother’s instructions will be plucked out by ravens of the valley and eaten by vultures.
  • Isaiah 51:1 “Listen to me, all who hope for deliverance— all who seek the Lord! Consider the rock from which you were cut, the quarry from which you were mined.

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).