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# עִקֵּר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6131

**hamstring** — 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

hamstring [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6131/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עִקֵּר: vb. denom. hamstring [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6131/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. denom. (from עֵקֶר or other like word = (root-sinew), hamstring);—hamstring horses (on Arabic funeral usage, with camel and horse v. WeHeid. 2, 181). Pf. 3 ms. ע׳ Jos 11:9, Impf. 3 ms. וַיְעַקֵּר 2 S 8:4 = 1 Ch 18:4, 2 ms. תְּעַקֵּר Jos 11:6 all c. acc.; Pf. 3 mpl. עִקְּרוּ שׁוֹר Gn 49:6 they hamstrung an ox.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: he hamstrung (3); it will be plucked up (1); pluck up (1).

## In the verses

[Ecclesiastes 3:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.3.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.3.2/#tree)

עֵ֥ת לָלֶ֖דֶת וְעֵ֣ת לָמ֑וּת עֵ֣ת לָטַ֔עַת וְעֵ֖ת לַעֲק֥וֹר נָטֽוּעַ׃

*Word for word:* a.time to bear.a.child and a.time to die a.time to plant and a.time to pluck.up \[that.which.is\].planted

*JPS 1917:* A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;

[Zephaniah 2:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEP.2.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEP.2.4/#tree)

כִּ֤י עַזָּה֙ עֲזוּבָ֣ה תִֽהְיֶ֔ה וְאַשְׁקְל֖וֹן לִשְׁמָמָ֑ה אַשְׁדּ֗וֹד בַּֽצָּהֳרַ֙יִם֙ יְגָ֣רְשׁ֔וּהָ וְעֶקְר֖וֹן תֵּעָקֵֽר׃ס

*Word for word:* (dm) Gaza abandoned it.will.be and Ashkelon \[will become\].(into).a.desolation Ashdod at the noontide(s) people will.drive.it.out and Ekron it.will.be.plucked.up

*JPS 1917:* For Gaza shall be forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation; they shall drive out Ashdod at the noonday, and Ekron shall be rooted up.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6131.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6131/): 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).