Genesis 37:25
וַ יֵּשְׁבוּ לֶ אֶכָל לֶחֶם וַ יִּשְׂאוּ עֵינֵיהֶם וַ יִּרְאוּ וְ הִנֵּה אֹרְחַת יִשְׁמְעֵאלִים בָּאָה מִ גִּלְעָד וּ גְמַלֵּיהֶם נֹשְׂאִים נְכֹאת וּ צְרִי וָ לֹט הֹולְכִים לְ הֹורִיד מִצְרָיְמָה
And they are sitting to eat bread, and they are lifting up their eyes, and are seeing, and behold, a traveling-company of El-Hears-ites, she-who-comes from Witness-Heap, and their camels are those-who-lift-up a smitten-one,1173 and a lumped-one,1174 and a wrapped-one,1175 going to take them down to Dual-Siege.
| 1173 | Strong’s #5219, נְכאת nekot, noun fem. something smitten to powder. “a pounding, breaking in pieces, hence aromatic powder, which from being a general name, became applied to some particular kind of aromatic.” – Gesenius. See #5218 and #5217 nake נְכא to smite, scourge, which is also derived from this root. #5218 is interpreted as an adjective smitten. This however seems incorrect as participle verb would likely be used as seen in Psalm 109:16, נִכְאֵ֨ה he-who-is-smitten. Thus, a smiting wind as opposed to a “broken heart”: “A merry heart is creating-good, a cure, and a smiting [nake] wind is drying-up a bone.” Prov. 17:22 literal |