Strong's #3363: yaqa` (pronounced yaw-kah')

a primitive root; properly, to sever oneself, i.e. (by implication) to be dislocated; figuratively, to abandon; causatively, to impale (and thus allow to drop to pieces by rotting):--be alienated, depart, hang (up), be out of joint.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

yâqa‛

1) to be dislocated, be alienated

1a) (Qal) to be dislocated, be torn away, be alienated

1b) (Hiphil)

1b1) to execute slowly (by exposure or impalation)

1b2) to hang

1c) (Hophal) to be executed

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Usage:

This word is used 8 times:

 

Genesis 32:25: "and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was out of joint, as he wrestled with"
Numbers 25:4: "all the heads of the people, and hang them up against the sun,"
2 Samuel 21:6: "men of his sons be delivered unto us, and we will hang them up unto the LORD in Gibeah of Saul,"
2 Samuel 21:9: "And he delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them in the hill before the LORD: and they fell"
2 Samuel 21:13: "his son; and they gathered of them that were hanged."
Jeremiah 6:8: "O Jerusalem, lest my soul depart from thee; lest I make thee desolate,"
Ezekiel 23:17: "and they defiled her with their whoredom, and she was polluted with them, and her mind was alienated"
Ezekiel 23:18: "her nakedness: then my mind was alienated from her, like as my mind"