Bible word study

Yaqa (Strong’s H3363): Meaning in the Bible

Yaqa (יָקַע) is the Hebrew word numbered H3363 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as 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). In the King James Bible it is translated be alienated, depart, hang (up), be out of joint..

• Original wordיָקַע
• Transliterationyâqaʻ
• Pronunciationyaw-kah'
• Part of speechverb (v)
• Strong’s numberH3363
• LanguageHebrew

The full Strong’s definition

Derivation. a primitive root;

How the King James Bible translates it

Where Yaqa appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Yaqa (H3363) stands behind 8 English renderings in 8 verses across 5 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in 2 Samuel (3), Ezekiel (2), Genesis (1).

How the King James Bible renders Yaqa, by count

• alienated2 of 8 (25 percent)
• hanged2 of 8 (25 percent)
• up2 of 8 (25 percent)
• depart1 of 8 (12 percent)
• joint1 of 8 (12 percent)

Three places to read Yaqa

• Genesis 32:25 And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob’s thigh was out of joint, as he wrestled with him.
• 2 Samuel 21:6 Let seven men of his sons be delivered unto us, and we will hang them up unto the LORD in Gibeah of Saul, whom the LORD did choose. And the king said, I will give them.
• Jeremiah 6:8 Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul depart from thee; lest I make thee desolate, a land not inhabited.

Counts are made at build time from the King James text tagged with Strong’s numbers (eBible.org, public domain). Verses are read from the stored King James text, never typed.

Why the word matters

Every word the biblical writers chose carries weight. Studying Yaqa in the original Hebrew lets you read the passages where it appears more carefully, closer to what the first hearers understood, so the meaning is drawn from the text itself rather than from the English alone.

The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.

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