נָכַר
properly, to scrutinize, i.e. look intently at; hence (with recognition implied), to acknowledge, be acquainted with, care for, respect, revere, or (with suspicion implied), to disregard, ignore, be strange toward, reject, resign, dissimulate (as if ignorant or disowning)
Strong’s Definition
properly, to scrutinize, i.e. look intently at; hence (with recognition implied), to acknowledge, be acquainted with, care for, respect, revere, or (with suspicion implied), to disregard, ignore, be strange toward, reject, resign, dissimulate (as if ignorant or disowning)
Etymology & Derivation
a primitive root;
KJV Usage
acknowledge, [idiom] could, deliver, discern, dissemble, estrange, feign self to be another, know, take knowledge (notice), perceive, regard, (have) respect, behave (make) self strange(-ly).
Detailed Definition
From the Brown–Driver–Briggs (BDB) Hebrew lexicon outline.
- 1.to recognize, acknowledge, know, respect, discern, regard
- 2.(niphal) to be recognized
- 3.(niphal) to disguise oneself
- 4.(piel)
- 5.(piel) to regard
- 6.(hiphil)
- 7.to act or treat as foreign or strange, disguise, misconstrue
- 8.(hithpael)
- 9.(hithpael) to make oneself known
Scholarly Notes
Transliteration: nâkar; Pronunciation: naw-kar'