Heel
עָקֵבStrong’s H6119aqev (a-qev)
Appears in 14 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Aqev is the Hebrew word usually translated “heels of”, “heel” and “heels my”. It appears in 14 verses of the Old Testament.
“And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.”
Meaning
- Heel, rear, footprint, hinder part, hoof, rear of a troop, footstepheel · mark of heel, footprint · hinder part, rear
How it's translated
- heels of 2
- a heel 2
- heels my 2
- heel 1
- on heel of 1
- rearguard its 1
- on a heel 1
- and footprints your 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 5
- Genesis 4
- Joshua 1
- Judges 1
- Job 1
- Song of Solomon 1
7 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 25:26And after that came his brother out, and his hand took hold on Esau’s heel; and his name was called Jacob: and Isaac was threescore years old when she bare them.
- Genesis 49:17Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward.
- Genesis 49:19Gad, a troop shall overcome him: but he shall overcome at the last.
- Joshua 8:13And when they had set the people, even all the host that was on the north of the city, and their liers in wait on the west of the city, Joshua went that night into the midst of the valley.
- Judges 5:22Then were the horsehoofs broken by the means of the pransings, the pransings of their mighty ones.
- Job 18:9The gin shall take him by the heel, and the robber shall prevail against him.
Hebrew dictionary
עָקֵב aqev · heel
1) heel, rear, footprint, hinder part, hoof, rear of a troop, footstep 1a) heel 1b) mark of heel, footprint 1c) hinder part, rear
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “heel” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
HEEL, noun
[Latin calx; Gr. a tumor.]
- The hind part of the foot, particularly of man; but it is applied also to the corresponding part of the feet of quadrupeds.
- The whole foot.
- The hind part of a shoe, either for man or beast.
- The part of a stocking intended for the heel
All definitions and other forms of “heel”
- Something shaped like the human heel; a protuberance or knob.
- The latter part; as, a bill was introduced into the legislature at the heel of the session.
- A spur.
- The after end of a ship's keel; the lower end of the stern-post to which it is connected; also, the lower end of a mast.
HEEL, verb intransitive
To dance.
HEEL, verb transitive
To arm a cock.
- To add a heel to; as, to heel a shoe.
HEEL verb intransitive
To incline; to lean; as a ship; as, the ship heels a-port, or a star-board.
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.