Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
to empty
Usage: 1) to make empty, empty out 1a) (Hiphil) 1a1) to empty, keep empty or hungry 1a2) to pour out or down 1a3) to empty out 1b) (Hophal) to be emptied out
Ruq means “cast out” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Strong's H7324 רוּק (ruwq) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. ruwq (rook) v. 1. to pour out (literally or figuratively), i.e. empty [a primitive root] It has 19 linked Bible usages across 12 books. Visible English usage signals include out, empty, draw, were, and poured. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
ruwq (rook) v. 1. to pour out (literally or figuratively), i.e. empty [a primitive root] KJV: X arm, cast out, draw (out), (make) empty, pour forth (out).
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to empty
Usage: 1) to make empty, empty out 1a) (Hiphil) 1a1) to empty, keep empty or hungry 1a2) to pour out or down 1a3) to empty out 1b) (Hophal) to be emptied out
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render ruwq, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
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19 indexed usages in Old Testament.
And when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, he armed his trained servants, born in his own house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued them unto Dan.
And it came to pass as they emptied their sacks, that, behold, every man's bundle of money was in his sack: and when both they and their father saw the bundles of money, they were afraid.
The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; my lust shall be satisfied upon them; I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.
First 19 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H7324.
And when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, he armed his trained servants, born in his own house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued them unto Dan.
And it came to pass as they emptied their sacks, that, behold, every man's bundle of money was in his sack: and when both they and their father saw the bundles of money, they were afraid.
The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; my lust shall be satisfied upon them; I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.
And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste.
Then did I beat them small as the dust before the wind: I did cast them out as the dirt in the streets.
Draw out also the spear, and stop the way against them that persecute me: say unto my soul, I am thy salvation.
If the clouds be full of rain, they empty themselves upon the earth: and if the tree fall toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree falleth, there it shall be.
Because of the savour of thy good ointments thy name is as ointment poured forth, therefore do the virgins love thee.
For the vile person will speak villany, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and to utter error against the LORD, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.
Moab hath been at ease from his youth, and he hath settled on his lees, and hath not been emptied from vessel to vessel, neither hath he gone into captivity: therefore his taste remained in him, and his scent is not changed.
Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will send unto him wanderers, that shall cause him to wander, and shall empty his vessels, and break their bottles.
Thou shalt burn with fire a third part in the midst of the city, when the days of the siege are fulfilled: and thou shalt take a third part, and smite about it with a knife: and a third part thou shalt scatter in the wind; and I will draw out a sword after them.
A third part of thee shall die with the pestilence, and with famine shall they be consumed in the midst of thee: and a third part shall fall by the sword round about thee; and I will scatter a third part into all the winds, and I will draw out a sword after them.
And I will scatter toward every wind all that are about him to help him, and all his bands; and I will draw out the sword after them.
Behold, therefore I will bring strangers upon thee, the terrible of the nations: and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of thy wisdom, and they shall defile thy brightness.
He and his people with him, the terrible of the nations, shall be brought to destroy the land: and they shall draw their swords against Egypt, and fill the land with the slain.
Shall they therefore empty their net, and not spare continually to slay the nations?
And I answered again, and said unto him, What be these two olive branches which through the two golden pipes empty the golden oil out of themselves?
Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H7324, grouped by book.
Ruq (Strong's H7324) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "cast out". ruwq (rook) v. 1. to pour out (literally or figuratively), i.e. empty [a primitive root]
This page currently indexes 19 linked usages for Strong's H7324 across 12 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H7324 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as out, empty, draw, were, poured, and pour. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.