נְפַק
ne.phaq (H5312)
to go out
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# H5312 (נְפַק) - "To Go Out" The Hebrew verb *nephaq* carries the fundamental meaning of "to go out" or "to exit," describing movement away from a location or enclosed space. With eleven occurrences in the biblical text, this term represents a relatively uncommon word for expressing the basic human action of departing or emerging from one place to another. The verb belongs to a semantic field shared with other Hebrew motion words, though its specific frequency and distribution suggest it functioned as one option among several available terms for describing outward movement. The limited number of occurrences—just eleven instances across the entire biblical corpus—indicates that *nephaq* was not the primary or most frequent choice for expressing this concept in Hebrew. This scarcity implies that biblical writers had preferred alternatives available to them, though the specific contexts where *nephaq* was selected over other verbs remain unclear from the lexical data alone. The word's persistence in the biblical text despite its rarity suggests it maintained functional value, whether for stylistic variation, poetic expression, or particular narrative contexts. Without access to the specific passages where it appears, the full range of its usage and any specialized meanings cannot be determined from this lexical entry alone.
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The gold and silver vessels of God’s house, which Nebuchadnezzar took out of the temple that was in Jerusalem, and brought into the temple of Babylon, those Cyrus the king also took out of the temple of Babylon, and they were delivered to one whose name was Sheshbazzar, whom he had made governor.
Also let the gold and silver vessels of God’s house, which Nebuchadnezzar took out of the temple which is at Jerusalem, and brought to Babylon, be restored and brought again to the temple which is at Jerusalem, everything to its place. You shall put them in God’s house.
So the decree went out, and the wise men were to be slain. They sought Daniel and his companions to be slain.
Then Daniel returned answer with counsel and prudence to Arioch the captain of the king’s guard, who had gone out to kill the wise men of Babylon.
Then Nebuchadnezzar came near to the mouth of the burning fiery furnace. He spoke and said, “Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, you servants of the Most High God, come out, and come here!” Then Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego came out of the middle of the fire.
Belshazzar, while he tasted the wine, commanded that the golden and silver vessels which Nebuchadnezzar his father had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem be brought to him; that the king and his lords, his wives and his concubines, might drink from them.
Then they brought the golden vessels that were taken out of the temple of God’s house which was at Jerusalem; and the king and his lords, his wives and his concubines, drank from them.
In the same hour, the fingers of a man’s hand came out and wrote near the lamp stand on the plaster of the wall of the king’s palace. The king saw the part of the hand that wrote.
A fiery stream issued and came out from before him. Thousands of thousands ministered to him. Ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him. The judgment was set. The books were opened.