ʻâqôb — H6121
H6121 · Hebrew — עקב
Pronunciation: aw-kobe'
Definition
adjective
(transitive) fraudulent or (intransitive) tracked
- deceitful, sly, insidious
- deceitful, sly, insidious, slippery
- foot-tracked
- steep, hilly
Usually translated as
crooked, deceitful, polluted
Origin
from H6117; in the original sense, a knoll (as swelling up); in the denominative sense
Greek equivalents
Occurrences
ʻâqôb occurs 3 times in the King James.
Distribution of the word across the Bible: Isaiah (1), Jeremiah (1), Hosea (1)
- Isaiah 40:4 — Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked (הֶֽעָקֹב֙) shall be made straight, and the rough places plain:
- Jeremiah 17:9 — The heart is deceitful (עָקֹ֥ב) above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
- Hosea 6:8 — Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, and is polluted (עֲקֻבָּ֖ה) with blood.