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עָקַר

akar · hamstring; uproot

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H6131 · appears 7 times in the Bible

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What it means

akar (עָקַר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “hamstring; uproot”.

Hamstring: cut the leg tendons of an animal to cripple it. Elsewhere, uproot.

How to say it

a·kar

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. To cut the leg tendons of an animal.
  2. To pull a plant or a people up by the roots.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

  • hamstrung ×4
  • uproot ×1
  • will be uprooted ×1
  • you shall hamstring ×1

Related words

Words that come from it

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

Where it appears

  • Genesis 49:6

    Into their council let my soul not enter; to their assembly let my honor not be joined; for in their anger they killed men, and at their whim they hamstrung oxen.

  • Joshua 11:6

    YHWH said to Joshua, “Do not fear them, for tomorrow at this time I will give all of them slain before Israel. Their horses you shall hamstring and their chariots you shall burn with fire.”

  • Joshua 11:9

    Joshua did to them as YHWH had told him: their horses he hamstrung, and their chariots he burned with fire.

  • 2 Samuel 8:4

    David captured from him one thousand seven hundred horsemen and twenty thousand foot soldiers; and David hamstrung all the chariot horses, and left of them a hundred chariots.

  • 1 Chronicles 18:4

    David captured from him a thousand chariots, and seven thousand horsemen, and twenty thousand foot soldiers; and David hamstrung all the chariot horses, and left of them a hundred chariots.

  • Ecclesiastes 3:2

    a time to give birth and a time to die; a time to plant and a time to uproot what is planted;

  • Zephaniah 2:4

    For Gaza will be abandoned, and Ashkelon a desolation; Ashdod, at noon they will drive her out, and Ekron will be uprooted.