- Original: עקר
- Transliteration: `aqar
- Phonetic: aw-kar'
- Definition:
1. to pluck up, root up
a. (Qal) to pluck up, root up
b. (Niphal) to be plucked up
2. to cut, hamstring
a. (Piel) to cut, hamstring
- Origin: a primitive root
- TWOT entry: 1681,1682
- Part(s) of speech: Verb
- Strong's: A primitive root; to pluck up (especially by the roots); specifically to hamstring; figuratively to exterminate: - dig down hough pluck up root up.
Total KJV Occurrences: 7
• down, 1
Genesis 49:6
• hamstring, 1
Joshua 11:6
• hamstrung, 3
Joshua 11:9;
2 Samuel 8:4;
1 Chronicles 18:4
• up, 2
Ecclesiastes 3:2;
Zephaniah 2:4