עָקֹב
ʻâqôb · H6121 · Hebrew · 3 occurrences
Meanings
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tracked
Literally: with heel(s); hence: state in which the ground is full of the impressions left by human or animal feet
ExamplesHosea 6:8 Gilead is a city of wrongdoers, Tracked with bloody footprints.
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uneven, rugged
State in which a surface is not level or smooth
ExamplesIsaiah 40:4 “Let every valley be lifted up, And every mountain and hill be made low; And let the uneven ground become a plain, And the rugged terrain a broad valley;
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deceitful
Meaning unsure; literally, possibly: grasping the heel; hence, probably: state in which humans are inclined to take advantage of other humans, often by bending the truth
ExamplesJeremiah 17:9 “The heart is more deceitful than all else And is desperately sick; Who can understand it?
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- הָיָהto be, to become 1
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- לֵבheart, mind 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 1 word
- שָׁוְא shâvᵉʼ · H7723 · falsehood, deceit, deceitfulness
- The target lexeme (‘deceitful’) and שָׁוְא (‘false, lie’) both denote moral or ethical wrongness and untrustworthiness, and could function as near-synonyms in contexts describing dishonesty or unreliability.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Shape002001001052
- עָקֹב describes something crooked, a bent or twisted physical shape.
- Unfaithful002001002027
- The word also carries the figurative sense of deceitful or polluted, describing a heart that cannot be trusted.
Word family 6 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H6121. aqob I. עָקֹב adjective 1 insidious, deceitful, Jer 17:9 מִכֹּל הַלֵּב עָקֹב. 2…
I. עָקֹב adjective
1 insidious, deceitful, Jer 17:9 מִכֹּל הַלֵּב עָקֹב.
2 foot-tracked (denominative from I. עָקֵב) Hos 6:8 מִדָּם עֲֹקֻבָּה אָוֶן מֹּעֲלֵי קִרְיַת גִּלְעָד.
II. עָקֹב adjective steep, hilly (see √; compare difficult mountain path, Qor 90:11 hill); — Isa 40:4 לְמִישׁוֺר הֶעָקֹב והיה let the steep ground (Chronicles) become a plain (|| הָֽרְכָסִים). compare Ecclus 6:20.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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