ya.qa denotes withdrawal or dislocation in relational clauses, and an ordered public hanging in Numbers 25:4.

The Qal forms occur where a soul or life is dislocated or withdrawn from someone, while the Hiphil imperative in Numbers 25:4 commands that the people's heads be hung up in public.

1. Withdrawal or dislocation from another · dominant

   In Ezekiel 23:17, the feminine singular Qal form occurs after she is defiled by the sons of Babylon; the APB renders the following clause, “she dislocated her soul from them.” In Ezekiel 23:18, the same morphology occurs when her uncovered conduct results in “my soul” being dislocated from her; Jeremiah 6:8 similarly places the imperfect in a warning that life be “withdrawn from you.”

   Ezekiel 23:17Ezekiel 23:18Jeremiah 6:8
2. Public hanging under command · occasional

   In Numbers 25:4, the Hiphil imperative addresses Moses after the command to take the heads of the people; the APB renders the action as “hang them up for the LORD in the sight of the sun.”

   Numbers 25:4

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB renders the Qal clauses in Ezekiel as “dislocated” and the Jeremiah warning as “withdrawn,” while Numbers 25:4 uses “hang them up.” The verse is read as a whole, so these renderings confirm the clauses' overall presentation rather than assigning a precise English equivalent in every occurrence.