רוּקrûwq
Hiph`il: make empty, empty out (Leviticus 26:33; Malachi 3:10; Ezekiel 28:7)
Pronunciation: rook · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H7324
Meanings
1. empty (Genesis 42:35; Jeremiah 48:12; Isaiah 32:6)
2. pour out or down (Malachi 3:10; Ecclesiastes 11:3; Zechariah 4:12)
3. empty out, (i.e. draw) sword (Exodus 15:9; Leviticus 26:33; Ezekiel 5:2)
Hoph`al: be emptied out (Jeremiah 48:11; Song of Solomon 1:3; Amos 6:6)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 19 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 14:14 When Abram heard that his nephew Lot had been captured, he mobilized the 318 trained men who had been born into his household. Then he pursued Kedorlaomer’s army until he caught up with them at Dan.
- Genesis 42:35 As they emptied out their sacks, there in each man’s sack was the bag of money he had paid for the grain! The brothers and their father were terrified when they saw the bags of money.
- Exodus 15:9 “The enemy boasted, ‘I will chase them and catch up with them. I will plunder them and consume them. I will flash my sword; my powerful hand will destroy them.’
- Leviticus 26:33 I will scatter you among the nations and bring out my sword against you. Your land will become desolate, and your cities will lie in ruins.
- Psalms 18:42 I ground them as fine as dust in the wind. I swept them into the gutter like dirt.
- Psalms 35:3 Lift up your spear and javelin against those who pursue me. Let me hear you say, “I will give you victory!”
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).