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Hosea 12:3

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Masoretic Text 1524

H990 in the womb בבטן

H6117 He took his brother by the heel עקב

H853 את

H251 אחיו

H202 and by his strength ובאונו

H8280 he had power שׂרה

H854 with את

H430 God אלהים׃

King James Bible (Oxford 1769)

H430 God

H854 with

H8280 power

had

H202 strength

his

and

H990 womb

the

H6117 heel

the

brother

his

took

Hebrew-English Dictionary

Strongs: H6117

Hebrew: עָקַב

Transliteration: ʻâqab

Pronunciation: aw-kab'

Part of Speech: Verb

Bible Usage: take by the {heel} {stay} {supplant} X-(idiom) utterly.

Definition:

properly to swell out or up; used only as denominative from {H6119 } to seize by the heel; figuratively to circumvent (as if tripping up the heels); also to restrain (as if holding by the heel)

1. to supplant, circumvent, take by the heel, follow at the heel, assail insidiously, overreach

a. (Qal) to supplant, overreach, attack at the heel

b. (Piel) to hold back

The Brown-Driver-Briggs
Hebrew-English Lexicon (BDB) 1906