Strong’s H79 · Hebrew
אָבַק
ʼâbaq · aw-bak'
Origin a primitive root, probably to float away (as vapor), but used only as denominative from אָבָק (H80);
Meaning to bedust, i.e. grapple
In the King James Version wrestle.
In 2 verses of the King James Version
- Genesis 32:24And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day.
- Genesis 32:25And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob’s thigh was out of joint, as he wrestled with him.
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.