Strong's #6131: `aqar (pronounced aw-kar')

a primitive root; to pluck up (especially by the roots); specifically, to hamstring; figuratively, to exterminate:--dig down, hough, pluck up, root up.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

‛âqar

1) to pluck up, root up

1a) (Qal) to pluck up, root up

1b) (Niphal) to be plucked up

2) to cut, hamstring

2a) (Piel) to cut, hamstring

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Same Word by TWOT Number: 1681, 1682

Usage:

This word is used 7 times:

 

Genesis 49:6: "they slew a man, and in their self-will they digged down a wall."
Joshua 11:6: "all slain before Israel: thou shalt hamstring their horses, and burn"
Joshua 11:9: "unto them as the LORD bade him: he hamstrung their horses, and burnt their chariots"
2 Samuel 8:4: "thousand footmen: and David hamstrung all the chariot"
1 Chronicles 18:4: "thousand footmen: David also hamstrung all the chariot"
Ecclesiastes 3:2: "a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;"
Zephaniah 2:4: "Ashdod at the noon day, and Ekron shall be rooted up."