עׇקְבָה
ʻoqbâh · H6122 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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deceitfulness, cunning
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
Examples2 Kings 10:19 “Now, summon to me all the prophets of Baal, all his worshipers and all his priests; let no one go missing, because I have a great sacrifice for Baal; whoever is missing shall not live.” But Jehu did it in deception, in order to eliminate the worshipers of Baal.
How it’s used In 1 role
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1 occurrences in 1 groups
- בin/on/with 2
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
- שֶׁקֶר sheqer · H8267 · treachery, wrongfully, without cause
- The target lexeme (‘subtilty’) and שֶׁקֶר (‘deceit, falsehood’) genuinely overlap in the semantic space of dishonesty or deception, and are plausible near-synonyms within moral discourse.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Unfaithful002001002027
- עׇקְבָה denotes subtilty or craftiness, a deceitful scheming against another.
Word family 6 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H6122. oqbah עָקְבָה noun feminine insidiousness, 2Ki 10:19 בְע ׳עָשָׂה זְיֵהוּא.
עָקְבָה noun feminine insidiousness, 2Ki 10:19 בְע ׳עָשָׂה זְיֵהוּא.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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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