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title: עָקֹב — steep · The Tanakh dictionary
description: עָקֹב (lemma:עָקֹב), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 2 times: steep. BDB 1906: adj. insidious, deceitful foot-tracked. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# עָקֹב

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«עָקֹב» in the Tanakh dictionary: **steep** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 2 times · **Key:** lemma:עָקֹב · **BDB:** עָקֹב

### Glosses

\[is\].deceitful (1); \[place\] (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

steep [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/lemma_3a_5e2_5b8_5e7_5b9_5d1/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

adj. insidious, deceitful foot-tracked [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/lemma_3a_5e2_5b8_5e7_5b9_5d1/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** adj. insidious, deceitful, Je 17:9 עָקֹב הַלֵּב מִכֹּל. foot-tracked (denom. from i. עָקֵב) Ho 6:8 גִּלְעָד קִרְיַת פֹּעֲלֵי אָוֶן עֲקֻבָּה מִדָּם.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (10 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (8 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «עָקֹב» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/lemma_3a_5e2_5b8_5e7_5b9_5d1/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Jeremiah 17:9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.17.9/)

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עָקֹ֥ב הַלֵּ֛ב מִכֹּ֖ל וְאָנֻ֣שׁ ה֑וּא מִ֖י יֵדָעֶֽנּוּ׃

*Word for word:* \[is\].deceitful the heart more than.everything and.\[is\] incurable it who? will he.know.it

*JPS 1917:* The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceeding weak — who can know it?

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[Isaiah 40:4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.40.4/)

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כָּל־גֶּיא֙ יִנָּשֵׂ֔א וְכָל־הַ֥ר וְגִבְעָ֖ה יִשְׁפָּ֑לוּ וְהָיָ֤ה הֶֽעָקֹב֙ לְמִישׁ֔וֹר וְהָרְכָסִ֖ים לְבִקְעָֽה׃

*Word for word:* every valley it.will.be.lifted.up and every mountain and hill they.will.become.low and it.will.become the.steep \[place\] (into).level ground and the.rough places (into).a plain

*JPS 1917:* Every valley shall be lifted up, and every mountain and hill shall be made low; and the rugged shall be made level, and the rough places a plain;

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