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Strong's #6119: `aqeb (pronounced aw-kabe')

or (feminine) hiqqbah {ik-keb-aw'}; from 6117; a heel (as protuberant); hence, a track; figuratively, the rear (of an army):--heel, (horse-)hoof, last, lier in wait (by mistake for 6120), (foot- )step.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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‛âqêb / ‛iqqebâh

1) heel, rear, footprint, hinder part, hoof, rear of a troop, footstep

1a) heel

1b) mark of heel, footprint

1c) hinder part, rear

Part of Speech: noun masculine

Relation: from H6117



Usage:

This word is used 14 times:

Genesis 3:15: "thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel."
Genesis 25:26: "his brother out, and his hand took hold on Esau's heel; and his name was called Jacob:"
Genesis 49:17: "the path, that biteth the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward."
Genesis 49:19: "shall overcome him: but he shall overcome at the last."
Joshua 8:13: "that was on the north of the city, and their liers in wait on the west of the city,"
Judges 5:22: "Then were the horses' hooves broken by the means of the prancings, the prancings of their mighty ones."
Job 18:9: "The gin shall take him by the heel, and the robber shall prevail against"
Psalms 41:9: "I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against"
Psalms 49:5: "in the days of evil, when the iniquity of my heels shall compass me about?"
Psalms 56:6: "they hide themselves, they mark my steps, when they wait for my soul."
Psalms 77:19: "and thy path in the great waters, and thy footsteps are not known."
Psalms 89:51: "O LORD; wherewith they have reproached the footsteps of thine anointed."
Song of Solomon 1:8: "O thou fairest among women, go thy way forth by the footsteps of the flock, and feed thy kids"
Jeremiah 13:22: "of thine iniquity are thy skirts discovered, and thy heels made bare."









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