Word

עָקֹד

ʻâqôd · H6124 · Hebrew · 7 occurrences

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Meanings

streaked, striped

State in which something has long, thin marks of a different color from its surroundings

Examples
Genesis 30:39 So the flocks mated by the rods, and the flocks delivered striped, speckled, and spotted offspring.
Genesis 30:40 Then Jacob separated the lambs, and made the flocks face toward the striped and all the black in the flock of Laban; and he put his own herds apart, and did not put them with Laban’s flock.
Genesis 31:8 “If he said this: ‘The speckled shall be your wages,’ then all the flock delivered speckled; and if he said this: ‘The striped shall be your wages,’ then all the flock delivered striped.

How it’s used In 4 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 done to itIt is the object

2 occurrences in 1 groups

יָלַדto bear 2

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

2 occurrences in 1 groups

עַתּוּדhe-goat 2

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

1 occurrences in 1 groups

אֵלto, toward 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 2 words

נָקֹד nâqôd · H5348 · speckled: Both words denote specific color or marking patterns of livestock, speckled and ring-straked, in the closely related breeding contexts of Genesis; they are overlapping but distinct pattern terms.
בָּרֹד bârôd · H1261 · mottled, speckled, dappled: Both lexemes denote animal coloration/patterning types (grisled vs. ring-straked) and genuinely overlap in the broader semantic field of describing variegated livestock appearance—plausible near-synonyms in context (Jacob's flock narratives).

Semantic domains 1 entry

Color002001001014: עָקֹד describes an animal marked with rings or streaks of color, the ring-straked pattern of Jacob's selectively bred flocks.

Word family 2 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

עָקַד ʻâqad · H6123 · to bind · 1×עָקֹדʻâqôd · H6124

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H6124. aqod עָקֹד adjective striped, streaked; — of Jacob's goats and sheep; as…

H6124. aqod
עָקֹד adjective striped, streaked; — of Jacob's goats and sheep; as substantive ׳ע Gen 30:40 (collective), plural עֲקֻדִּים Gen 31:8 (twice in verse); plural as attributive Gen 30:35, Gen 30:39, predicate Gen 31:10, Gen 31:12.
[עָקָה]
noun feminine Psa 55:4 see עוק.
עקה (√ of following; cf Arabic hinder).

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Color7 occurrences

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