BDB5381

[נָקַשׁ] verb knock, strike only in specific sense of hit, strike or bring down (a bird), and only figurative (Ecclus ינקש Eccl 41:2 c striketh against (ב; margin ונוקש), so נוקש ב 13:2c; Late Hebrew knock, strike e.g. the knees, or a door (so Hiph`il); Aramaic (including Biblical Aramaic) נְקַשׁ id., [untranscribed source text 3449] fixit, impegit, percussit, etc. (Arabic [untranscribed source text 3450] strike in, carve, etc., is loan-word Frä¹⁹⁴ ); — the Hebrew verb apparently means bring down with a [certain kind of] stick, perhaps like a boomerang, see description and illustration in Wilkinson^{gypten 323} WMM^{Asien u. Europa.123f.}); —

I, II. נֵר, נִר, (נִיר) see נור p. 632f

BDB9720

[נְקַשׁ] verb knock (see Biblical Hebrew (rare)); —