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# אָבַק

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H79

**wrestle** — used 2 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

wrestle [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/79/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אָבַק: vb.denom. wrestle [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/79/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb.denom. wrestle (= get dusty, cf. κόνις, κονίω, v. also StrPirke Aboth, I, 4 מִתְאַבֵּק בַּעֲפַר רַגְלֵיהֶם = sit at their feet; others, e.g. Di, comp. חבק). וַיֵּאָבֵק עִם Gn 32:25; Inf. sf. בְּהֵאָֽבְקוֹ עִם v 26.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: he wrestled (1); wrestled (1).

## In the verses

[Genesis 32:25](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.32.25/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.32.25/#tree)

וַיִּוָּתֵ֥ר יַעֲקֹ֖ב לְבַדּ֑וֹ וַיֵּאָבֵ֥ק אִישׁ֙ עִמּ֔וֹ עַ֖ד עֲל֥וֹת הַשָּֽׁחַר׃

*Word for word:* and he.remained Jacob he alone and he.wrestled a.man with him until came.up the dawn

*JPS 1917:* And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day.

[Genesis 32:26](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.32.26/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.32.26/#tree)

וַיַּ֗רְא כִּ֣י לֹ֤א יָכֹל֙ ל֔וֹ וַיִּגַּ֖ע בְּכַף־יְרֵכ֑וֹ וַתֵּ֙קַע֙ כַּף־יֶ֣רֶךְ יַעֲקֹ֔ב בְּהֵֽאָבְק֖וֹ עִמּֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* and he.saw (dm).that not he.prevailed to him and he.touched (in).the socket his.thigh his and it.was.dislocated the.socket of.the.thigh of.Jacob when wrestled he with him

*JPS 1917:* And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was strained, as he wrestled with him.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/79/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).