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# עַקּוּב

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6126

**Akkub** — used 8 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

Akkub [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6126/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עַקּוּב: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6126/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. 𝔊B usually (Ι)ακουν\[μ\], A 𝔊 L Ακ(κ)ουβ:— descendant of David 1 Ch 3:24. heads of post-exilic families: Ezr 2:42 = Ne 7:45. Ezr 2:45 (si vera l.). Levites: 1 Ch 9:17. Ne 8:7. Ne 11:19; 12:25.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 of its verses cited, 0 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, 1 with the glosses (8 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Akkub (5); of Akkub (3).

## In the verses

[Ezra 2:45](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.2.45/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.2.45/#tree)

בְּנֵי־לְבָנָ֥ה בְנֵי־חֲגָבָ֖ה בְּנֵ֥י עַקּֽוּב׃

*Word for word:* the.descendants of.Lebanah the.descendants of.Hagabah the.descendants of.Akkub

*JPS 1917:* the children of Lebanah, the children of Hagabah, the children of Akkub;

[Nehemiah 12:25](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.12.25/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.12.25/#tree)

מַתַּנְיָ֧ה וּבַקְבֻּֽקְיָ֛ה עֹבַדְיָ֥ה מְשֻׁלָּ֖ם טַלְמ֣וֹן עַקּ֑וּב שֹׁמְרִ֤ים שֽׁוֹעֲרִים֙ מִשְׁמָ֔ר בַּאֲסֻפֵּ֖י הַשְּׁעָרִֽים׃

*Word for word:* Mattaniah and Bakbukiah Obadiah Meshullam Talmon Akkub \[who\].kept \[were\].gatekeepers guard at the.storerooms of the.gates

*JPS 1917:* Mattaniah, and Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, Akkub, were porters keeping the ward at the store-houses of the gates.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6126.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6126/): 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).