# יָנַק (yanaq)

Israeli respelling: ya-naq. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H3243. 30 Old Testament occurrences.

to suck; causatively, to give milk

King James renderings: milch, nurse(-ing mother), (give, make to) suck(-ing child, -ling).

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/yanaq-h3243

## Occurrences

- [Genesis 21:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/21/7) — And she said, Who would have said unto Abraham, that Sarah should have given children suck? for I have born him a son in his old age.
- [Genesis 24:59](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/24/59) — And they sent away Rebekah their sister, and her nurse, and Abraham’s servant, and his men.
- [Genesis 32:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/32/15) — Thirty milch camels with their colts, forty kine, and ten bulls, twenty she asses, and ten foals.
- [Genesis 35:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/35/8) — But Deborah Rebekah’s nurse died, and she was buried beneath Bethel under an oak: and the name of it was called Allonbachuth.
- [Exodus 2:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/2/7) — Then said his sister to Pharaoh’s daughter, Shall I go and call to thee a nurse of the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for thee?
- [Exodus 2:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/2/9) — And Pharaoh’s daughter said unto her, Take this child away, and nurse it for me, and I will give thee thy wages. And the woman took the chi…
- [Numbers 11:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/11/12) — Have I conceived all this people? have I begotten them, that thou shouldest say unto me, Carry them in thy bosom, as a nursing father beare…
- [Deuteronomy 32:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/32/13) — He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck honey out of the ro…
- [Deuteronomy 32:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/32/25) — The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of gray hairs.
- [Deuteronomy 33:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/33/19) — They shall call the people unto the mountain; there they shall offer sacrifices of righteousness: for they shall suck of the abundance of t…
- [1 Samuel 1:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/1/23) — And Elkanah her husband said unto her, Do what seemeth thee good; tarry until thou have weaned him; only the LORD establish his word. So th…
- [1 Samuel 15:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/15/3) — Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox a…
- [1 Samuel 22:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/22/19) — And Nob, the city of the priests, smote he with the edge of the sword, both men and women, children and sucklings, and oxen, and asses, and…
- [1 Kings 3:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/3/21) — And when I rose in the morning to give my child suck, behold, it was dead: but when I had considered it in the morning, behold, it was not…
- [2 Kings 11:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/11/2) — But Jehosheba, the daughter of king Joram, sister of Ahaziah, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him from among the king’s sons which…
- [2 Chronicles 22:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/22/11) — But Jehoshabeath, the daughter of the king, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him from among the king’s sons that were slain, and pu…
- [Job 3:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/3/12) — Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?
- [Job 20:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/20/16) — He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper’s tongue shall slay him.
- [Psalms 8:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/8/2) — Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the av…
- [Song of Solomon 8:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/song-of-solomon/8/1) — O that thou wert as my brother, that sucked the breasts of my mother! when I should find thee without, I would kiss thee; yea, I should not…
- [Isaiah 11:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/11/8) — And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice’ den.
- [Isaiah 49:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/49/23) — And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queens thy nursing mothers: they shall bow down to thee with their face toward the earth,…
- [Isaiah 60:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/60/16) — Thou shalt also suck the milk of the Gentiles, and shalt suck the breast of kings: and thou shalt know that I the LORD am thy Saviour and t…
- [Isaiah 66:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/66/11) — That ye may suck, and be satisfied with the breasts of her consolations; that ye may milk out, and be delighted with the abundance of her g…
- [Isaiah 66:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/66/12) — For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, and the glory of the Gentiles like a flowing stream: then shall y…
- [Jeremiah 44:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/44/7) — Therefore now thus saith the LORD, the God of hosts, the God of Israel; Wherefore commit ye this great evil against your souls, to cut off…
- [Lamentations 2:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/lamentations/2/11) — Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people;…
- [Lamentations 4:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/lamentations/4/3) — Even the sea monsters draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones: the daughter of my people is become cruel, like the ostriche…
- [Lamentations 4:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/lamentations/4/4) — The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst: the young children ask bread, and no man breaketh it unto the…
- [Joel 2:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joel/2/16) — Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders, gather the children, and those that suck the breasts: let the bridegroom…