Insidious
עָקֹבStrong’s H6121aqov (a-qov)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Aqov is the Hebrew word usually translated “steep”, “deceitful” and “tracked”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain:”
Meaning
- Deceitful, sly, insidiousdeceitful, sly, insidious, slippery · foot-tracked
- Steep, hilly
How it's translated
- the steep 1
- deceitful 1
- tracked 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 1
- Jeremiah 1
- Hosea 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
עָקֹב aqov · insidious
1) deceitful, sly, insidious 1a) deceitful, sly, insidious, slippery 1b) foot-tracked
עָקֹב aqov · steep
steep, hilly
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “insidious” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
INSID'IOUS, adjective
[Latin insidiosus, from insideo, to lie in wait; in and sedeo, to sit.]
- Properly, lying in wait; hence, watching an opportunity to insnare or entrap; deceitful; sly; treacherous; used of persons.
- Intended to entrap; as insidious arts.
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.