akev · heel

What it means

akev (עָקֵב) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “heel”.

Also footprint, track; the rear.

How to say it

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

1. The back part of the foot, under the ankle.
2. The mark the foot leaves when it treads, where someone passed.
3. The part that comes behind in a group or army.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• heel ×4
• heels ×4
• footprints ×2
• hoofs ×1
• rear ×1
• tracks ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×4
• Joshua×1
• Judges×1
• Job×1
• Psalms×4
• Song of Songs×1
• Jeremiah×1

• Genesis 3:15

  And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he will strike you on the head, and you will strike him on the heel.”

• Genesis 25:26

  After that his brother came out, with his hand holding on to the heel of Esau, and he called his name Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when she bore them.

• Genesis 49:17

  Dan will be a serpent by the way, a viper by the path, that bites the horse’s heels, so that its rider falls backward.

• Genesis 49:19

  Gad, raiders will raid him, but he will raid at their heels.

• Joshua 8:13

  So the people positioned all the camp that was to the north of the city and its rear to the west of the city, and Joshua went that night into the middle of the valley.

• Judges 5:22

  Then the hoofs of the horses hammered from the galloping, the galloping of his steeds.

• Job 18:9

  A snare seizes him by the heel; the trap holds fast on him.

• Psalms 41:9

  Even the man of my peace, in whom I trusted, who ate my bread, has made great against me the heel.

• Psalms 56:6

  They gather together, they lurk; they watch my heels, as they wait for my soul.

• Psalms 77:19

  In the sea was your way, and your trail in many waters, and your footprints were not known.

• Psalms 89:51

  with which your enemies have reproached, YHWH, with which they have reproached the footprints of your anointed.

• Song of Songs 1:8

  If you do not know for yourself, beautiful one among women, go out in the tracks of the flock, and pasture your young goats beside the dwellings of the shepherds.

• Jeremiah 13:22

  And if you say in your heart: “Why have these things happened to me?” For the multitude of your iniquity your skirts have been uncovered, your heels have suffered violence.