Hebrew verb · H3952
לָקַק
laqaqlaw-kak'
to lick
7 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: lâqaq
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H3952is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 39Old Testament books
- 7spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H3952
to lick or lap
The King James renders it: lap, lick.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
laqaq is rendered "to lick". It stands 7 times in the Hebrew text, across two books.
- Four of the uses stand in Judges, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Judges 7:5So Gideon brought the people down to the water, and the LORD said to him, “Separate those who lap the water with their tongues like a dog from those who kneel to drink.”
- The Greek text spells it seven different ways.
The first use
So Gideon brought the people down to the water, and the LORD said to him, “Separate those who lap the water with their tongues like a dog from those who kneel to drink.”
Judges 7:5יָלֹק֩
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- and they licked up1
- he will lap up1
- it laps up1
- they licked up1
- they will lick up1
- those lapped1
- who lapped1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 7, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
7 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- הַֽמֲלַקְקִ֤ים1
- הַֽמֲלַקְקִים֙1
- וַיָּלֹ֤קּוּ1
- יָלֹק֩1
- יָלֹ֣ק1
- יָלֹ֧קּוּ1
- לָקְק֤וּ1
The grammar of each form
- the definite article (“the”) + verb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine plural2HTd/Vprmpa
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular2HVqi3ms
- Hc/Vqw3mp1Hc/Vqw3mp
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural1HVqi3mp
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural1HVqp3cp
Judges
four uses
So Gideon brought the people down to the water, and the LORD said to him, “Separate those who lap the water with their tongues like a dog from those who kneel to drink.”
- יָלֹק֩yalokverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will lap up
- יָלֹ֣קyalokverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it laps up
And the number of those who lapped the water with their hands to their mouths was three hundred men; all the others knelt to drink.
- הַֽמֲלַקְקִ֤יםhamalakimthe definite article (“the”) + verb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine pluraltagged: those lapped
Then the LORD said to Gideon, “With the three hundred men who lapped the water I will save you and deliver the Midianites into your hand. But all the others are to go home.”
- הַֽמֲלַקְקִים֙hamalakimthe definite article (“the”) + verb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine pluraltagged: who lapped
1 Kings
three uses
Tell him that this is what the LORD says: ‘Have you not murdered a man and seized his land?’ Then tell him that this is also what the LORD says: ‘In the place where the dogs licked up the blood of Naboth, there also the dogs will lick up your blood—yes, yours!’”
- לָקְק֤וּlakekuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they licked up
- יָלֹ֧קּוּyalokuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will lick up
And the chariot was washed at the pool of Samaria where the prostitutes bathed, and the dogs licked up Ahab’s blood, according to the word that the LORD had spoken.
- וַיָּלֹ֤קּוּvaiyalokuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they licked up
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.