Strong’s H6121 · Hebrew
עָקֹב
ʻâqôb · aw-kobe'
Origin from עָקַב (H6117); in the original sense, a knoll (as swelling up); in the denominative sense
Meaning (transitive) fraudulent or (intransitive) tracked
In the King James Version crooked, deceitful, polluted.
In 3 verses of the King James Version
- Isaiah 40:4Every 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:
- Jeremiah 17:9The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
- Hosea 6:8Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, and is polluted with blood.
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.