To uproot
עָקַרStrong’s H6131aqar (a-qar)
Appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Aqar is the Hebrew word usually translated “hamstrung”, “hamstring” and “pluck up”. It appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament.
“O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, mine honour, be not thou united: for in their anger they slew a man, and in their selfwill they digged down a wall.”
Meaning
- To pluck up, root up(Qal) to pluck up, root up · (Niphal) to be plucked up
- To cut, hamstring(Piel) to cut, hamstring
How it's translated
- and he hamstrung 2
- they hamstrung 1
- you will hamstring 1
- he hamstrung 1
- to pluck up 1
- it will be plucked up 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Joshua 2
- Genesis 1
- 2 Samuel 1
- 1 Chronicles 1
- Ecclesiastes 1
- Zephaniah 1
6 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Joshua 11:6And the LORD said unto Joshua, Be not afraid because of them: for to morrow about this time will I deliver them up all slain before Israel: thou shalt hough their horses, and burn their chariots with fire.
- Joshua 11:9And Joshua did unto them as the LORD bade him: he houghed their horses, and burnt their chariots with fire.
- 2 Samuel 8:4And David took from him a thousand chariots, and seven hundred horsemen, and twenty thousand footmen: and David houghed all the chariot horses, but reserved of them for an hundred chariots.
- 1 Chronicles 18:4And David took from him a thousand chariots, and seven thousand horsemen, and twenty thousand footmen: David also houghed all the chariot horses, but reserved of them an hundred chariots.
- Ecclesiastes 3:2A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;
- Zephaniah 2:4For Gaza shall be forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation: they shall drive out Ashdod at the noon day, and Ekron shall be rooted up.
Hebrew dictionary
עָקַר aqar · to uproot
1) to pluck up, root up 1a) (Qal) to pluck up, root up 1b) (Niphal) to be plucked up Aramaic equivalent: a.qar (עֲקַר "be uprooted" H6132)
עִקֵּר iqqer · to hamstring
1) to cut, hamstring 1a) (Piel) to cut, hamstring
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “hamstring” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
HAM'STRING, noun
The tendons of the ham.
All definitions and other forms of “hamstring”
HAM'STRING, verb transitive
preterit tense and participle passive hamstrung or hamstringed.
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.