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Hebrew lexical help H79
Reviewed modern lexical help is not available for this entry yet. The historical Strong’s wording remains available below as a source witness, not as a complete modern definition.
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Historical Strong’s entry (1890)
This historical wording is preserved for source transparency. It is not promoted into a modern root, pronunciation, or contextual definition.
- Strong’s number
- H79
- Strong’s source transliteration
- 'abaq
- Strong’s pronunciation guide
- aw-bak'
- English renderings listed in this source
- wrestle.
- Etymology or derivation in this source
- a primitive root, probably to float away (as vapor), but used only as denominative from 80;
- Definition wording in this source
- to bedust, i.e. grapple
- Related source reference
- see H80
Source and edition
James Strong, Strong’s Hebrew Bible Dictionary (1890); Bible Foundation text source; Michael Grier’s 1996 ASCII e-text; CrossWire module 1.2.