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Hebrew verb · H7324

רוּק

ruqrook

to empty

19 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: rûwq

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H7324is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 12 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 14
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H7324

to pour out (literally or figuratively), i.e. empty

The King James renders it: [idiom] arm, cast out, draw (out), (make) empty, pour forth (out).

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

ruq is rendered "to empty". It stands 19 times in the Hebrew text, across twelve books.

  • Five of the uses stand in Ezekiel, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 14:14And when Abram heard that his relative had been captured, he mobilized the 318 trained men born in his household, and they set out in pursuit as far as Dan.
  • The Greek text spells it fourteen different ways.

The first use

And when Abram heard that his relative had been captured, he mobilized the 318 trained men born in his household, and they set out in pursuit as far as Dan.

Genesis 14:14וַיָּ֨רֶק

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

Five of the word's nineteen uses are in Ezekiel.

The other 27 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • I will draw4
  • and they will draw2
  • and draw out1
  • and he drew out1
  • and I will draw1
  • and I will pour out1
  • by keeping empty1
  • emptying1
  • I poured out them1
  • it has been poured1
  • it is poured out1
  • they will empty out1

and 3 more, 19 uses in all

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.

The words it stands beside

All 19, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

14 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

  • אָרִ֥יק3
  • וְהֵרִ֤יקוּ2
  • וַהֲרִיקֹתִ֥י2
  • יָרִ֔יקוּ2
  • אָרִ֣יק1
  • אֲרִיקֵֽם׃1
  • הוּרַ֤ק1
  • הַֽמְרִיקִ֥ים1
  • וְהָ֘רֵ֤ק1
  • וַיָּ֨רֶק1
  • יָרִ֣יק1
  • לְהָרִיק֙1

and 2 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • verb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singular4HVhi1cs
  • Hc/Vhq1cs2Hc/Vhq1cs
  • Hc/Vhq3cp2Hc/Vhq3cp
  • verb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural2HVhi3mp
  • conjunction (“and”) + verb · causative (hiphil), command · 2nd person masculine singular1HC/Vhv2ms
  • Hc/Vhw3ms1Hc/Vhw3ms
  • preposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)1HR/Vhcc
  • the definite article (“the”) + verb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine plural1HTd/Vhrmpa
  • verb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural1HVhi1cs/Sp3mp
  • verb · causative passive (hophal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singular1HVHi3fs
  • verb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular1HVhi3ms
  • verb · causative passive (hophal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular1HVHp3ms

Genesis

two uses
  • And when Abram heard that his relative had been captured, he mobilized the 318 trained men born in his household, and they set out in pursuit as far as Dan.

    Genesis 14:14

    • וַיָּ֨רֶקvaiyarekHc/Vhw3mstagged: and he drew out
  • As they began emptying their sacks, there in each man’s sack was his bag of silver! And when they and their father saw the bags of silver, they were dismayed.

    Genesis 42:35

    • מְרִיקִ֣יםmerikimverb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine pluraltagged: emptying

Exodus

one use
  • The enemy declared, ‘I will pursue, I will overtake. I will divide the spoils; I will gorge myself on them. I will draw my sword; my hand will destroy them.’

    Exodus 15:9

    • אָרִ֣יקʾarikverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will draw

Leviticus

one use
  • But I will scatter you among the nations and will draw out a sword after you as your land becomes desolate and your cities are laid waste.

    Leviticus 26:33

    • וַהֲרִיקֹתִ֥יvaharikotiHc/Vhq1cstagged: and I will draw

Psalms

two uses
  • I ground them as dust in the face of the wind; I trampled them like mud in the streets.

    Psalms 18:42

    • אֲרִיקֵֽם׃ʾarikemverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: I poured out them
  • Draw the spear and javelin against my pursuers; say to my soul: “I am your salvation.”

    Psalms 35:3

    • וְהָ֘רֵ֤קveharekconjunction (“and”) + verb · causative (hiphil), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: and draw out

Ecclesiastes

one use
  • If the clouds are full, they will pour out rain upon the earth; whether a tree falls to the south or to the north, in the place where it falls, there it will lie.

    Ecclesiastes 11:3

    • יָרִ֔יקוּyarikuverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will pour out

Song of Solomon

one use
  • The fragrance of your perfume is pleasing; your name is like perfume poured out. No wonder the maidens adore you.

    Song of Solomon 1:3

    • תּוּרַ֣קturakverb · causative passive (hophal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it is poured out

Isaiah

one use
  • For a fool speaks foolishness; his mind plots iniquity. He practices ungodliness and speaks falsely about the LORD; he leaves the hungry empty and deprives the thirsty of drink.

    Isaiah 32:6

    • לְהָרִיק֙leharikpreposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: by keeping empty

Jeremiah

two uses
  • Moab has been at ease from youth, settled like wine on its dregs; he has not been poured from vessel to vessel or gone into exile. So his flavor has remained the same, and his aroma is unchanged.

    Jeremiah 48:11

    • הוּרַ֤קhurakverb · causative passive (hophal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it has been poured
  • Therefore behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will send to him wanderers, who will pour him out. They will empty his vessels and shatter his jars.

    Jeremiah 48:12

    • יָרִ֔יקוּyarikuverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will empty out

Ezekiel

five uses
  • When the days of the siege have ended, you are to burn up a third of the hair inside the city; you are also to take a third and slash it with the sword all around the city; and you are to scatter a third to the wind. For I will unleash a sword behind them.

    Ezekiel 5:2

    • אָרִ֥יקʾarikverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will draw
  • A third of your people will die by plague or be consumed by famine within you, a third will fall by the sword outside your walls, and a third I will scatter to every wind and unleash a sword behind them.

    Ezekiel 5:12

    • אָרִ֥יקʾarikverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will draw
  • And I will scatter to every wind all the attendants around him and all his troops, and I will draw a sword to chase after them.

    Ezekiel 12:14

    • אָרִ֥יקʾarikverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will draw
  • behold, I will bring foreigners against you, the most ruthless of nations. They will draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom and will defile your splendor.

    Ezekiel 28:7

    • וְהֵרִ֤יקוּveherikuHc/Vhq3cptagged: and they will draw
  • He and his people with him, the most ruthless of the nations, will be brought in to destroy the land. They will draw their swords against Egypt and fill the land with the slain.

    Ezekiel 30:11

    • וְהֵרִ֤יקוּveherikuHc/Vhq3cptagged: and they will draw

Habakkuk

one use
  • Will he, therefore, empty his net and continue to slay nations without mercy?

    Habakkuk 1:17

    • יָרִ֣יקyarikverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: will he empty

Zechariah

one use
  • And I questioned him further, “What are the two olive branches beside the two gold pipes from which the golden oil pours?”

    Zechariah 4:12

    • הַֽמְרִיקִ֥יםhamrikimthe definite article (“the”) + verb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine pluraltagged: which are pouring out

Malachi

one use
  • Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, so that there may be food in My house. Test Me in this,” says the LORD of Hosts. “See if I will not open the windows of heaven and pour out for you blessing without measure.

    Malachi 3:10

    • וַהֲרִיקֹתִ֥יvaharikotiHc/Vhq1cstagged: and I will pour out

The letters

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 words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.

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Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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