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# עָקֹב

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6121

**steep** — 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

steep [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6121/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עָקֹב: adj. insidious, deceitful foot-tracked [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6121/#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, lists its Strong's number (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: tracked (1).

## In the verses

[Hosea 6:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HOS.6.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HOS.6.8/#tree)

גִּלְעָ֕ד קִרְיַ֖ת פֹּ֣עֲלֵי אָ֑וֶן עֲקֻבָּ֖ה מִדָּֽם׃

*Word for word:* Gilead \[is\].a.town of.\[those.who\].do (of).wickedness tracked from blood

*JPS 1917:* Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, it is covered with footprints of blood.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6121.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6121/): 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).