אָבַק
avak · wrestle
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H79 · appears 2 times in the Bible
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avak (אָבַק) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “wrestle”.
Grapple hand to hand. It occurs only in Genesis 32.
How to say it
a·vak
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- To grapple hand to hand, gripping the other.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
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Where it appears
- Genesis 32:24
And Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him until the dawn came up.
- Genesis 32:25
When he saw that he could not prevail against him, he touched the socket of his hip, and the socket of Jacob’s hip was dislocated as he wrestled with him.