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Strong's numbers

עָקֹב (H6121)

ʻâqôb

aw-kobe'

from עָקַב; in the original sense, a knoll (as swelling up); in the denominative sense; (transitive) fraudulent or (intransitive) tracked; crooked, deceitful, polluted.

Brown–Driver–Briggs

עָקֹב adj. steep, hilly;—Is 40:4
עָקֹב adj.
1 insidious, deceitful
2 foot-tracked

From Brown, Driver, and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), in the public domain.


3 occurrences

Shown in the King James Version (KJV), whichever translation you read in — it is the text these numbers are tagged against.

  • Isaiah 40:4
    Every 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 17:9
    The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
  • Hosea 6:8
    Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, and is polluted with blood.