nuq denotes nursing a child, as a woman is told to care for a youth for wages.

The attested use concerns a woman nursing a youth after being instructed to take him and care for him for wages in Exodus 2:9.

1. Nursing a youth in paid care · dominant

   In Exodus 2:9, the Hiphil sequential imperfect feminine singular form occurs in the instruction to take a youth and nurse him for wages; the APB renders the clause, "Take this youth and nurse him for me, and I will give you wages."

   Exodus 2:9

In the Anselm Project Bible: In Exodus 2:9, the APB presents the action as "nurse him" within an instruction concerning the youth.