Strong's Definition
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)
KJV Usage: be alienated, depart, hang (up), be out of joint
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
יָקַע (ya.qa) — to dislocate/hang. 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
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
verb · נקע
Detach | verb qal
to be dislocated, to be put out of joint = process by which the position of a bone in its joint is disturbed, ► which results in the inability to use that bone properly
Dead | verb hif
to hang, to throw from a rock, to impale, to dismember exact meaning unsure, with several possibilities: = causative action by which humans put other humans to death, though the exact way is unsure; possibly interpretations include (1) hanging the body from a gibbet which results in dislocating some of the bones, (2) throwing the body down from a rock which results in dislocating some of the bones, (3) placing the body in a vertically position on a sharpened upright pole that will pierce it, (4) cutting the body to pieces
Hate | verb qal
to be disgusted = process by which deities develop a strong aversion against (other) humans, often as a result of their behavior
1 NUM 25:4 RSV ESV "hang" NIV "kill and expose" | NJPS "have them impaled" NJB NRSV "impale" | REB "hurl down to death" | GNT "execute" CEV "have killed" 2 2SA 21:6 · 2SA 21:9 RSV GNT ESV CEV "hang" NIV "to be killed and exposed" | NJPS "impale" NRSV "impale" | REB "hurl down to death" | NJB "dismember"
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
יָקַע vb. be dislocated, alienated Qal dislocated (Jacob’s thigh); elsewhere torn away, alienated from any one
Hiph. of some solemn form of execution, but mng. uncertain
Hoph. pass. of Hiph.
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