Definition
a primitive root; to pluck up (especially by the roots); specifically, to hamstring; figuratively, to exterminate
Traditional renderings: dig down, hough, pluck up, root up.
Traditional renderings: dig down, hough, pluck up, root up.
In the Greek Old Testament
How the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament renders עָקַר:
- ἐκριζόωekrizoō“to uproot”always
Usage patterns
Occurrences
7 total
- Genesis 49:6עִקְּרוּ־ · and hamstringMay I never enter their council; may I never join their assembly. For they kill men in their anger, and hamstring oxen on a whim.
- Joshua 11:6תְּעַקֵּ֔ר · You are to hamstringThen the LORD said to Joshua, “Do not be afraid of them, for by this time tomorrow I will deliver all of them slain before Israel. You are to hamstring their horses and burn up their chariots.”
- Joshua 11:9עִקֵּ֔ר · he hamstrungJoshua treated them as the LORD had told him; he hamstrung their horses and burned up their chariots.
- 2 Samuel 8:4וַיְעַקֵּ֤ר · hamstrungDavid captured from him a thousand chariots, seven thousand charioteers, and twenty thousand foot soldiers, and he hamstrung all the horses except a hundred he kept for the chariots.
- 1 Chronicles 18:4וַיְעַקֵּ֤ר · and he hamstrungDavid captured from him a thousand chariots, seven thousand charioteers, and twenty thousand foot soldiers, and he hamstrung all the horses except a hundred he kept for the chariots.
- Ecclesiastes 3:2לַעֲק֥וֹר · to uproot…a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot,
- Zephaniah 2:4תֵּעָקֵֽר׃ס · will be uprootedFor Gaza will be abandoned, and Ashkelon left in ruins. Ashdod will be driven out at noon, and Ekron will be uprooted.