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# עָקֹב

Biblical Hebrew

**steep** — 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

steep [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/lemma_3a_5e2_5b8_5e7_5b9_5d1/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עָקֹב: adj. insidious, deceitful foot-tracked [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/lemma_3a_5e2_5b8_5e7_5b9_5d1/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj. insidious, deceitful, Je 17:9 עָקֹב הַלֵּב מִכֹּל. foot-tracked (denom. from i. עָקֵב) Ho 6:8 גִּלְעָד קִרְיַת פֹּעֲלֵי אָוֶן עֲקֻבָּה מִדָּם.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (10 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (8 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: \[is\] deceitful (1); \[place\] (1).

## In the verses

[Jeremiah 17:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.17.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.17.9/#tree)

עָקֹ֥ב הַלֵּ֛ב מִכֹּ֖ל וְאָנֻ֣שׁ ה֑וּא מִ֖י יֵדָעֶֽנּוּ׃

*Word for word:* \[is\].deceitful the heart more than.everything and.\[is\] incurable it who? will he.know.it

*JPS 1917:* The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceeding weak — who can know it?

[Isaiah 40:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.40.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.40.4/#tree)

כָּל־גֶּיא֙ יִנָּשֵׂ֔א וְכָל־הַ֥ר וְגִבְעָ֖ה יִשְׁפָּ֑לוּ וְהָיָ֤ה הֶֽעָקֹב֙ לְמִישׁ֔וֹר וְהָרְכָסִ֖ים לְבִקְעָֽה׃

*Word for word:* every valley it.will.be.lifted.up and every mountain and hill they.will.become.low and it.will.become the.steep \[place\] (into).level ground and the.rough places (into).a plain

*JPS 1917:* Every valley shall be lifted up, and every mountain and hill shall be made low; and the rugged shall be made level, and the rough places a plain;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5e2_5b8_5e7_5b9_5d1.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/lemma_3a_5e2_5b8_5e7_5b9_5d1/): 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).