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# עָקֹד

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6124

**striped** — used 7 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

striped [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6124/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עָקֹד: adj. striped, streaked [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6124/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj. striped, streaked;—of Jacob’s goats and sheep; as subst. ע׳ Gn 30:40 (coll.), pl. עֲקֻדִּים 31:8(×2); pl. as attrib. 30:35, 39, pred. 31:10, 12.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: striped \[ones\] (3); \[are\] striped (1); \[the\] striped (1).

## In the verses

[Genesis 30:39](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.30.39/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.30.39/#tree)

וַיֶּחֱמ֥וּ הַצֹּ֖אן אֶל־הַמַּקְל֑וֹת וַתֵּלַ֣דְןָ הַצֹּ֔אן עֲקֻדִּ֥ים נְקֻדִּ֖ים וּטְלֻאִֽים׃

*Word for word:* and they.were.in.heat the flock to the branches and they.bore the flock striped.\[ones\] speckled.\[ones\] and spotted.\[ones\]

*JPS 1917:* And the flocks conceived at the sight of the rods, and the flocks brought forth streaked, speckled, and spotted.

[Genesis 31:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.31.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.31.8/#tree)

אִם־כֹּ֣ה יֹאמַ֗ר נְקֻדִּים֙ יִהְיֶ֣ה שְׂכָרֶ֔ךָ וְיָלְד֥וּ כָל־הַצֹּ֖אן נְקֻדִּ֑ים וְאִם־כֹּ֣ה יֹאמַ֗ר עֲקֻדִּים֙ יִהְיֶ֣ה שְׂכָרֶ֔ךָ וְיָלְד֥וּ כָל־הַצֹּ֖אן עֲקֻדִּֽים׃

*Word for word:* if thus he.said speckled.\[ones\] it.will.be wage\[s\] your and they.bore all the flock speckled.\[ones\] and if thus he.said striped.\[ones\] it.will.be wage\[s\] your and they.bore all the flock striped.\[ones\]

*JPS 1917:* If he said thus: The speckled shall be thy wages; then all the flock bore speckled; and if he said thus: The streaked shall be thy wages; then bore all the flock streaked.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6124.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6124/): 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).