Hebrew Study
Strong’s Concordance H6117
A readable Hebrew dictionary entry from Strong’s Concordance. Definitions help with word study; the meaning in a verse still depends on context.
Word study
- Source
- Strong’s Concordance
- Transliteration
- `aqab
- Pronunciation
- aw-kab'
- Occurrences
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- Strong’s number
- H6117
- Brief meaning
- Properly, to swell out or up, used only as denominative from H6119, to seize by the heel, figuratively
- Source renderings
- take by the heel, stay, supplant, utterly
- Root word
- a primitive root
- Full definition from the source
- Properly, to swell out or up; used only as denominative from H6119, to seize by the heel; figuratively, to circumvent (as if tripping up the heels); also to restrain (as if holding by the heel). Root word: a primitive root.
- Digital-source-added cross-reference note
- H6119
Source info
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.
View the 1890 print witnessView preserved source wording
06117\ 6117 `aqab aw-kab' a primitive root; properly, to swell out or up; used only as denominative from 6119, to seize by the heel; figuratively, to circumvent (as if tripping up the heels); also to restrain (as if holding by the heel):--take by the heel, stay, supplant, X utterly. see HEBREW for 06119