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# עׇקְבָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6122

**insidiousness** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

insidiousness [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6122/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עָקְבָה: n.f. insidiousness [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6122/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. insidiousness, 2 K 10:19 וְיֵהוּא עָשָׂה בְע׳.

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (2 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: guile (1).

## In the verses

[2 Kings 10:19](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.10.19/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.10.19/#tree)

וְעַתָּ֣ה כָל־נְבִיאֵ֣י הַבַּ֡עַל כָּל־עֹבְדָ֣יו וְכָל־כֹּהֲנָיו֩ קִרְא֨וּ אֵלַ֜י אִ֣ישׁ אַל־יִפָּקֵ֗ד כִּי֩ זֶ֨בַח גָּד֥וֹל לִי֙ לַבַּ֔עַל כֹּ֥ל אֲשֶׁר־יִפָּקֵ֖ד לֹ֣א יִֽחְיֶ֑ה וְיֵהוּא֙ עָשָׂ֣ה בְעָקְבָּ֔ה לְמַ֥עַן הַאֲבִ֖יד אֶת־עֹבְדֵ֥י הַבָּֽעַל׃

*Word for word:* and therefore all the.prophets of.(the) Baal all \[those who\].serve.him and all priests his summon to me anyone not let.him.be.missing (dm) a.sacrifice great \[belongs\].to me to (the) Baal any \[one\].who he.will.be.missing not he.will.live and Jehu he.acted with guile so.as to.destroy (et) \[those.who\].serve (of \[the\].Baal

*JPS 1917:* Now therefore call unto me all the prophets of Baal, all his worshippers, and all his priests, let none be wanting; for I have a great sacrifice to do to Baal; whosoever shall be wanting, he shall not live.' But Jehu did it in subtlety, to the intent that he might destroy the worshippers of Baal.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6122.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6122/): 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).