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Word Summary
nakar: to regard, recognize
Original Word: נָכַר
Transliteration: nakar
Phonetic Spelling: (naw-kar')
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to regard, recognize
Meaning: to regard, recognize
Strong's Concordance
acknowledge, could, deliver, discern, dissemble, estrange, feign self to be another

A primitive root; properly, to scrutinize, i.e. Look intently at; hence (with recognition implied), to acknowledge, be acquainted with, care for, respect, revere, or (with suspicion implied), to disregard, ignore, be strange toward, reject, resign, dissimulate (as if ignorant or disowning) -- acknowledge, X could, deliver, discern, dissemble, estrange, feign self to be another, know, take knowledge (notice), perceive, regard, (have) respect, behave (make) self strange(-ly).

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H5234. nakar

I. [נָכַר‎] verb (not

Qal) regard, recognize (Late Hebrew Hiph`il know, be acquainted with; ᵑ7‎ Aph`el id.; Syriac Aph`el id.; compare also Arabic in sense be shrewd, cunning); **Arabic be shrewd, apparently rare, compare cunning Lane2850a. —

Niph`al Perfect3masculine plural נִכְּרוּ לֹא‎ Lamentations 4:8 they are not recognized.

Pi`el Perfect לִפְנֵידָֿ֑ל שׁוֺע נִכַּר לֹא‎ Job 34:19 he regardeth not the opulent above the poor ("" שָׂרִים מְּנֵי לֹאנָֿשָׂא‎); Imperfect תְנַכֵּ֑רוּ לֹא‎ 21:29 do ye not recognize their tokens.

Hiph`il Perfect הִכִּיר‎ Deuteronomy 33:9; Daniel 11:39 Kt; suffix הִכִּירוֺ‎ Genesis 27:23; 3plural הִכִּירוּ‎ Judges 18:3 2t., suffix הִכִּירֻהוּ‎ Job 2:12, הִכִּרֻהוּ‎ Genesis 42:8; Imperfect יַכִּיר‎ Deuteronomy 21:17 3t. + Daniel 11:39 Qr; וַיַּכֵּר‎ Genesis 38:26 +; suffix וַיַּכִּרֵ֫הוּ‎ 1 Kings 18:7, יַכִּירֶ֫נּוּ‎ Job 7:10, וַיַּכִּירָהּ‎ Genesis 37:33, etc.; Imperative ַהכֶּרֿ‎ 31:32 2t.; Infinitive absolute הֵַכּרֿ‎ (Ginsb van d. H. ַהכֶּרֿ‎) Proverbs 24:23; 28:21; construct suffix הַכִּירֵנִי‎ Ruth 2:10; Participle מַכִּיר‎ Psalm 142:5, suffix מַכִּירֵךְ‎ Ruth 2:19, etc.; —

1 regard, observe, especially with a view to recognition, with object clause, Genesis 31:32; 37:32; 38:25; pay attention to, with accusative of person Ruth 2:10, 19; accusative of thing (of God) Job 34:25; accusative of thing omitted 2 Samuel 3:36; ׳י‎ subject לְטוֺבָה ֗֗֗ אַכִּיר כֵּן‎ Jeremiah 24:5 so will I regard the exiles ... for good; Antiochus subject Daniel 11:39; מָּנִים הִכִּיר‎ pay regard to (shew partiality, = פ מְּנֵי ׳נָשָׂא‎) Deuteronomy 1:17; 16:19 ("" מִשְׁמָּט הִטָּה‎), Proverbs 24:23; 28:21.

2 Recognize (as formerly known) with accusative of person or thing, Genesis 27:23; 37:33; 38:26 (all J), 42:7-8, (twice in verse) (E), 1 Kings 18:7; 20:41; Job 2:12; proverb. אֶתרֵֿעֵהוּ אִישׁ יַכִּיר בְּטֶרֶם‎ Ruth 3:14 before a man could recognize his fellow (i.e. before dawn); recognize voice (קוֺל‎), Judges 18:3; 1 Samuel 26:17; = perceive the true situation, וְהִנֵּה וָאַכִּירָה‎ Nehemiah 6:12 and I perceived, and lo! God had not sent him.

3 Be willing to recognize, acknowledge Deuteronomy 21:17; 33:9; Isaiah 63:16 ("" יָדַע‎), Psalm 142:5; acknowledge with honour Isaiah 61:9.

4 Be acquainted with, מְקוֺמוֺ עוֺד יַכִּירֶנּוּ לֹא‎ Job 7:10 his place shall be acquainted with him no more (he shall be gone and forgotten), compare Psalm 103:16; with accusative of thing Job 24:17.

5 Distinguish, understand, לְקוֺל ֗֗֗ קוֺל הִכִּיר‎ Ezra 3:13 could not distinguish, etc.; compare Job 4:16 could not distinguish its appearance; לְדַבֵּר הִכִּיר‎ Nehemiah 13:24 understand how to speak, etc.

Hithpa`el Imperfect יִתְנַכֶּרנָֿ֑עַר‎ Proverbs 20:11 by his deeds a youth maketh himself known, whether his doing be pure, etc.

[נכר‎] verbdenominative act or treat as foreign, or strange; disguise, misconstrue; —

Niph`al Imperfect יִנָּכֵר‎ Proverbs 26:24 with his lips a hater disguiseth himself (dissembles, speaks what is foreign to his thought).

Pi`el Perfect נִכַּר‎ 1 Samuel 23:7, but see below; Imperfect וַיְנַכְּרוּ‎ Jeremiah 19:4 and they have treated this place as foreign (profane); צָרֵהוּ יְנַכְּרוּ‎ Deuteronomy 32:27 lest their adversaries should misconstrue (it). — א אֹתוֺ ׳נִכַּר בְּיָדִי‎ 1 Samuel 23:7 God hath alienated him into my hand, but improbable; מָכַר ᵐ5‎ (compare Judges 4:9) hath sold him, so Th Klo HPS (compare We); < סִכַּר‎ (as Isaiah 19:4) Krochm Dr; Kit either of these; > סִגַּר‎ Bu; Löhr either סִגַּר‎ or סִכַּר‎.

Hithpa`el Imperfect אֲלֵיהֶם וַיִּתְנַכֵּר‎ Genesis 42:7 he acted as a stranger toward them; Participle feminine מִתְנַכֵּרָ֑ה‎ 1 Kings 14:5-6, feign to be a stranger-woman.





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