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Strong's #4600: ma`ak (pronounced maw-ak')

a primitive root; to press, i.e. to pierce, emasculate, handle:--bruised, stuck, be pressed.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

mâ‛ak

1) to press, squeeze

1a) (Qal) to be crushed

1b) (Pual) to be handled, be pressed

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root



Usage:

This word is used 3 times:

Leviticus 22:24: "Ye shall not offer unto the LORD that which is bruised, or crushed, or broken, or cut; neither"
1 Samuel 26:7: "sleeping within the trench, and his spear stuck in the ground at his bolster: but Abner and the people"
Ezekiel 23:3: "in their youth: there were their breasts pressed, and there they bruised the teats of their virginity."









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