Becker Bible Teacher Resources

a prim. root; to guard, in a good sense (to protect, maintain, obey, etc.) or a bad one (to conceal, etc.):—besieged, hidden thing, keep (-er, -ing), monument, observe, preserve (-r), subtil, watcher (-man).

from 5341 in the sense of greenness as a striking color; a shoot; fig., a descendant:—branch.

from a root corresp. to 5352; clean:—pure.

a prim. root; to puncture, lit. (to perforate, with more or less violence) or fig. (to specify, designate, libel):—appoint, blaspheme, bore, curse, express, with holes, name, pierce, strike through.

a bezel (for a gem):—pipe.

the same as 5345; dell; Nekeb, a place in Pal.:—Nekeb.

from 5344; female (from the sexual form):—female.

from an unused root mean. to mark (by puncturing or branding); spotted:—speckled.

act. part. from the same as 5348; a spotter (of sheep or cattle), i.e. the owner or tender (who thus marks them):—herdman, sheepmaster.

from the same as 5348; a crumb (as broken to spots); also a biscuit (as pricked):—cracknel, mouldy.