# H5344 נָקַב

נָקַב (nâqab), Strong’s H5344: to puncture, literally (to perforate, with more or less violence) or figuratively (to specify, designate, libel) KJV: appoint, blaspheme, bore, curse, express, with…

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*nâqab* — to puncture, literally (to perforate, with more or less violence) or figuratively (to specify, designate, libel)

KJV: appoint, blaspheme, bore, curse, express, with holes, name, pierce, strike through.

Occurs 25 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- [נָקַב] vb. pierce
- Qal
- 1 pierce, bore
- 2 prick off, designate, wages
- Niph. who were pricked off, designated, by name
- נָקַב vb
- [נָקַב] vb. curse

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 30:28](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/30?v=28) — He said, “Appoint me your wages, and I will give it.”
- [Leviticus 24:11](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/leviticus/24?v=11) — The son of the Israelite woman blasphemed the Name, and cursed; and they brought him to Moses. His mother’s name was…
- [Leviticus 24:16](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/leviticus/24?v=16) — He who blasphemes the LORD’s name, he shall surely be put to death. All the congregation shall certainly stone him. The…
- [Numbers 1:17](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/1?v=17) — Moses and Aaron took these men who are mentioned by name.
- [Numbers 23:8](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/23?v=8) — How shall I curse whom God has not cursed? How shall I defy whom the LORD has not defied?
- [Numbers 23:25](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/23?v=25) — Balak said to Balaam, “Neither curse them at all, nor bless them at all.”
- [2 Kings 12:10](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-kings/12?v=10) — But Jehoiada the priest took a chest and bored a hole in its lid, and set it beside the altar, on the right side as one…
- [2 Kings 18:21](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-kings/18?v=21) — Now, behold, you trust in the staff of this bruised reed, even in Egypt. If a man leans on it, it will go into his hand…
- [Isaiah 36:6](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/36?v=6) — Behold, you trust in the staff of this bruised reed, even in Egypt, which if a man leans on it, it will go into his…
- [Isaiah 62:2](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/62?v=2) — The nations will see your righteousness, and all kings your glory. You will be called by a new name, which the LORD’s…