יָנַק

yânaq · Hebrew · Strong's H3243 · 32 occurrences

The KJV renders 39 different Hebrew and Greek words as “give”

What it means

to suck; causatively, to give milk

a primitive root;

How the KJV renders it

milch, nurse, give, make to sucking child, ling

Where that flattens a distinction

The same English word is also used for these other originals, so the distinction between them disappears in translation.

“give”

also renders chorēgéō (G5524), pareisphérō (G3923), poiéō (G4160), martyréō (G3140), metadídōmi (G3330), dōréomai (G1433), títhēmi (G5087), dídōmi (G1325), symbouleúō (G4823), apodídōmi (G591), aponémō (G632), diatássō (G1299), anapaúō (G373), kataphérō (G2702), epidídōmi (G1929), paréchō (G3930), charízomai (G5483), diadídōmi (G1239), apodekatóō (G586), bîyn (H995), gâdal (H1431), dâbar (H1696), hâlal (H1984), hâphak (H2015), châlaq (H2505), chânan (H2603), yâhab (H3051), yᵉhab (H3052), yâṭab (H3190), yâʻats (H3289), mâʻaṭ (H4591), nûwach (H5117), ʻâbar (H5674), râbâh (H7235), râgaʻ (H7280), rûwm (H7311), sûwm (H7761), shâqaṭ (H8252)

“nurse”

also renders trophós (G5162), ʼâman (H539)

“ling”

also renders thélō (G2309), nâbêl (H5034)

“milch”

also renders ʻûwl (H5763)

Where it appears

32 occurrences in the Hebrew text, first 30 verses shown.

1 Kings 3:21 · HR/Vhc

When I rose in the morning to nurse my child, behold, he was dead; but when I had looked at him in the morning, behold, it was not my son whom I bore.”

1 Samuel 1:23 · HC/Vhw3fs

Elkanah her husband said to her, “Do what seems good to you. Wait until you have weaned him; only may Yahweh establish his word.” So the woman waited and nursed her son until she weaned him.

1 Samuel 15:3 · HVqrmsa

Now go and strike Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and don’t spare them; but kill both man and woman, infant and nursing baby, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.’”

1 Samuel 22:19 · HVqrmsa

He struck Nob, the city of the priests, with the edge of the sword—both men and women, children and nursing babies, and cattle, donkeys, and sheep, with the edge of the sword.

2 Chronicles 22:11 · HNcfsc/Sp3ms

But Jehoshabeath, the king’s daughter, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stealthily rescued him from among the king’s sons who were slain, and put him and his nurse in the bedroom. So Jehoshabeath, the daughter of King Jehoram, the wife of Jehoiada the priest (for she was the sister of Ahaziah), hid him from Athaliah, so that she didn’t kill him.

2 Kings 11:2 · HNcfsc/Sp3ms

But Jehosheba, the daughter of King Joram, sister of Ahaziah, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him away from among the king’s sons who were slain, even him and his nurse, and put them in the bedroom; and they hid him from Athaliah, so that he was not slain.

Deuteronomy 32:13 HC/Vhw3ms/Sp3msDeuteronomy 32:25 HVqrmsaDeuteronomy 33:19 HVqi3mpExodus 2:7 HC/Vhi3fsExodus 2:9 HC/Vhv2fs/Sp3msGenesis 21:7 HVhp3fsGenesis 24:59 HVhrfsc/Sp3fsGenesis 32:15 HVhrfpaGenesis 35:8 HNcfscIsaiah 11:8 HVqrmsaIsaiah 49:23 HVhrfpc/Sp2fsIsaiah 60:16 HC/Vqq2fsIsaiah 66:11 HVqi2mpIsaiah 66:12 HC/Vqq2mpJeremiah 44:7 HC/VqrmsaJob 3:12 HVqi1csJob 20:16 HVqi3msJoel 2:16 HC/VqrmpcLamentations 2:11 HC/VqrmsaLamentations 4:3 HVhp3cpLamentations 4:4 HVqrmsaNumbers 11:12 HTd/VqrmsaPsalm 8:2 HC/VqrmpaSong of Solomon 8:1 HVqrmsa

Occurrences and morphology are taken from the primary Hebrew text, never from an English translation. Strong's Hebrew lexicon and Westminster Leningrad Codex morphology used under CC BY-SA 4.0 / CC BY 4.0 (OpenScriptures). Strong's Greek lexicon is public domain.