Hebrew verb · H6117
עָקַב
aqabaw-kab'
to assail
5 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ʻâqab
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H6117is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 39Old Testament books
- 5spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H6117
to seize by the heel; figuratively, to circumvent (as if tripping up the heels); also to restrain (as if holding by the heel)
The King James renders it: take by the heel, stay, supplant, [idiom] utterly.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
aqab is rendered "to assail". It stands 5 times in the Hebrew text, across four books.
- Two of the uses stand in Jeremiah, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 27:36So Esau declared, “Is he not rightly named Jacob? For he has cheated me twice. He took my birthright, and now he has taken my blessing.” Then he asked, “Haven’t you saved a blessing for me?”
- The Greek text spells it five different ways.
The first use
So Esau declared, “Is he not rightly named Jacob? For he has cheated me twice. He took my birthright, and now he has taken my blessing.” Then he asked, “Haven’t you saved a blessing for me?”
Genesis 27:36וַֽיַּעְקְבֵ֙נִי֙
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- and he has supplanted me1
- certainly to cheat1
- he cheats1
- he holds back them1
- he took by heel1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 5, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
5 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- וַֽיַּעְקְבֵ֙נִי֙1
- יַעְקֹ֔ב1
- יְ֝עַקְּבֵ֗ם1
- עָקַ֣ב1
- עָק֣וֹב1
The grammar of each form
- Hc/Vqw3ms/Sp1bs1Hc/Vqw3ms/Sp1bs
- verb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural1HVpi3ms/Sp3mp
- verb · simple (qal), infinitive absolute1HVqaa
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular1HVqi3ms
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular1HVqp3ms
Genesis
one use
So Esau declared, “Is he not rightly named Jacob? For he has cheated me twice. He took my birthright, and now he has taken my blessing.” Then he asked, “Haven’t you saved a blessing for me?”
- וַֽיַּעְקְבֵ֙נִי֙vaiya'keveniHc/Vqw3ms/Sp1bstagged: and he has supplanted me
Job
one use
Then there comes a roaring sound; He thunders with His majestic voice. He does not restrain the lightning when His voice resounds.
- יְ֝עַקְּבֵ֗םyeakevemverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: he holds back them
Jeremiah
two uses
“Let everyone guard against his neighbor; do not trust any brother, for every brother deals craftily, and every friend spreads slander.
- עָק֣וֹבakovverb · simple (qal), infinitive absolutetagged: certainly to cheat
- יַעְקֹ֔בya'koverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he cheats
Hosea
one use
In the womb he grasped his brother’s heel, and in his vigor he wrestled with God.
- עָקַ֣בʾakavverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he took by heel
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.