Strong's Lexicon

H1970

H1970 — הָכַר

Hebrew / Aramaic entry for Bible study and original-language reference.

Hebrewhakarverb-stemOccurrences: 1TWOT: 495

Definition / Gloss

Strong's Number:H1970
Word:הָכַר
Part of Speech:verb-stem
Etymology:a primitive root
Language:Hebrew
Occurrences:1
Transliteration:hakar
Phonetic Spelling/Pronunciation:haw-kar'
Meaning:1. apparently to injure
KJV Renderings:make self strange.

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Brown-Driver-Briggs Enhanced

BDB2153

[הָכַר] verb only

Qal or Hiph`il (Ges«GKC:53»§ 53 R. 4 i. 251) Imperfect 2 masculine plural תַּהְכְּרוּ in phrase לֹאתֵֿבשׁוּ תַהְכְּרוּלִֿי Job 19:3, sense very dubious; Schult Thes De and others (as Hiph`il) ye came me (לְ = accusative) to wonder (compare Arabic [untranscribed source text 1299]); others (as Qal) ye deal hardy with, wrong me (so context seems rather to require, see Ges in Add84 Rob-Ges Ew Di Da RV ; compare Arabic [untranscribed source text 1300] wrong, detract from; Manuscripts read תחכרו, which is preferable, if this meaning be adopted; ᵐ5 ἑπίκεισθέ μοι, ᵑ9 opprimentes); conjectures are תְּחָֽרְפוּ OlHiob; תַּחַבְרוּ אֵלָ֑י Me; Siegf תִּתְחַבְּרוּ.


Other Resources

Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament
R. Laird Harris, Gleason L. Archer, and Bruce K. Waltke

Englishman's Hebrew Concordance

הכר (hah-char’)

Concordance entry

EHCC: Entry present in source; no clean verse row could be parsed.
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