To wrestle
אָבַקStrong’s H0079avaq (a-vaq)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Avaq is the Hebrew word usually translated “wrestled” and “when wrestled he”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day.”
Meaning
- (Niphal) to wrestle, grapple (get dusty), bedust
How it's translated
- and he wrestled 1
- when wrestled he 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 2
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Hebrew dictionary
אָבַק avaq · to wrestle
(Niphal) to wrestle, grapple (get dusty), bedust
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “wrestle” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
WRESTLE, verb intransitive
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- To strive with arms extended, as two men, who seize each other by the collar and arms, each endeavoring to throw the other by tripping up his heels and twitching him off his center.
- To struggle; to strive; to contend.“We wrestle not against flesh and blood” Ephesians 6:12
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.