H6117 · עָקַב
ʻâqab · aw-kab' · taken by heel, supplant
H6117 (ʻâqab, pronounced aw-kab') is the Hebrew word עָקַב in Strong’s dictionary: to seize by the heel. It appears 5 times in 4 verses of the BSB (Yahweh).
Strong’s entry
- Original word
- עָקַב (Hebrew)
- Transliteration
- ʻâqab
- Pronunciation
- aw-kab'
- Derivation
- a primitive root; properly, to swell out or up; used only as denominative from H6119 (עָקֵב),
- Definition
- to seize by the heel; figuratively, to circumvent (as if tripping up the heels); also to restrain (as if holding by the heel)
- Rendered in the KJV
- take by the heel, stay, supplant, [idiom] utterly.
In the Berean Standard Bible (Yahweh)
5 occurrences in 4 verses (4 with English words of their own, 1 in the original with no English word of their own).
How the BSB renders it
- “For he has cheated me” ×1
- “deals craftily” ×1
- “heel” ×1
- “restrain the lightning” ×1
By book
Genesis 1 · Job 1 · Jeremiah 1 · Hosea 1
Verses
Related words
Numbers that share a root with H6117.