Quick Definition
to assail
Strong's Definition
to seize by the heel; figuratively, to circumvent (as if tripping up the heels); also to restrain (as if holding by the heel)
Derivation: a primitive root; properly, to swell out or up; used only as denominative from H6119 (עָקֵב),
KJV Usage: take by the heel, stay, supplant, [idiom] utterly.
TWOT Reference: 1676
Outline of Biblical Usage
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
עָקַב (a.qav) — to assail. 1) to supplant, circumvent, take by the heel, follow at the heel, assail insidiously, overreach 1a) (Qal) to supplant, overreach, attack at the heel 1b) (Piel) to hold back
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
verb · עָקֵב
verb
Non-Engage
to hold back = causative action by which deities keep a certain event from happening
1 GEN 27:36 LXX "ἐπτέρνικεν" NETS RSV NRSV NJPS NJB REB "supplant(ed)" NIV "deceived" GNT CEV ESV "cheated" 2 JER 9:3 RSV "supplanter" REB "supplants" NIV "slanderer" NJPS "takes advantage" NJB "cheats" GNT "deceitful as Jacob" CEV "telling lies" ESV "deceiver" 3 HOS 12:4 LXX "ἐπτέρνισεν" NETS "kicked with the heel" RSV ESV "took by the heel" NIV "grasped ... heel" NJPS NRSV "tried to supplant" NJB "overreached" REB "supplanted" GNT "struggled" CEV "cheated"
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
עָקַב vb. follow at the heel, fig. assail insidiously, circumvent, overreach (denom.) Qal he attacked his brother at the heel
Pi. dub.; poss. attack at the heel, hence fig. hold back
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