Strong's #3243: yanaq (pronounced yaw-nak')
a primitive root; to suck; causatively, to give milk:--milch, nurse(-ing mother), (give, make to) suck(-ing child, -ling).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
yânaq
1) to suckle, nurse, suck
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to suck
1a2) suckling, babe (substantive)
1b) (Hiphil)
1b1) to give suck to, nurse
1b2) nursing, nursing woman, nurse (participle)
Part of Speech: verb
Relation: a primitive root
Usage:
This word is used 31 times:
Genesis 21:7: "would have said unto Abraham, that Sarah should have given children suck? for I have born him a son"
Genesis 24:59: "Rebekah their sister, and her nurse, servant, and his men."
Genesis 32:15: "Thirty milch camels with their colts, forty and ten bulls,"
Genesis 35:8: "But Deborah Rebekah's nurse died, and she was buried Bethel"
Exodus 2:7: "daughter, and call to thee a nurse to thee a nurse of the Hebrew women, that she may nurse"
Exodus 2:7: "to thee a nurse of the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child"
Exodus 2:9: "daughter said unto her, Take this child away, and nurse"
Numbers 11:12: "a nursing father beareth the sucking child, unto the land which thou sworest"
Deuteronomy 32:13: "that he might eat of the fields; and he made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil"
Deuteronomy 32:25: "shall destroy the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man"
Deuteronomy 33:19: "of righteousness: for they shall suck of the abundance of the seas, and of treasures hid"
1 Samuel 1:23: "his word. So the woman abode, and gave her son suck until she weaned"
1 Samuel 15:3: "both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox"
1 Samuel 22:19: "both men and women, children and sucklings, and oxen, and asses,"
2 Kings 11:2: "the king's sons which were slain; and they hid him, even him and his nurse, in the bedchamber from"
2 Chronicles 22:11: "the king's sons that were slain, and put him and his nurse in a bedchamber. So Jehoshabeath,"
Job 3:12: "me? or why the breasts I should suck?"
Job 20:16: " He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue"
Psalms 8:2: "Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength thine enemies,"
Song of Solomon 8:1: "O that thou wast as my brother, that sucked the breasts of my mother! thee without,"
Isaiah 11:8: " And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, shall put his hand"
Isaiah 49:23: "shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queens thy nursing mothers: to thee with their face toward the earth, and lick up"
Isaiah 60:16: " Thou shalt also suck the milk of the Gentiles, and shalt suck the breast and thou shalt know that"
Isaiah 60:16: "Thou shalt also suck the milk of the Gentiles, and shalt suck the breast and thou shalt know that"
Isaiah 66:11: "That ye may suck, and be satisfied with the breasts of her consolations; ye may milk out,"
Isaiah 66:12: "of the Gentiles like a flowing stream: then shall ye suck, ye shall be borne upon her sides, and be dandled"
Jeremiah 44:7: "from you man and woman, child and suckling, out of Judah, to leave"
Lamentations 2:11: "of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city."
Lamentations 4:3: "the sea monsters draw out the breast, they give suck the daughter of my people is become cruel,"
Lamentations 4:4: "The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth the young children ask"
Joel 2:16: "gather the children, and those that suck the breasts: let the bridegroom go forth of his chamber,"
