# H6119 עָקֵב

עָקֵב (ʻâqêb), Strong’s H6119: a heel (as protuberant); hence, a track; figuratively, the rear (of an army) KJV: heel, (horse-) hoof, last, lier in wait (by mistake for H6120 (עָקֵב)), (foot-) step…

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*ʻâqêb* — a heel (as protuberant); hence, a track; figuratively, the rear (of an army)

KJV: heel, (horse-) hoof, last, lier in wait (by mistake for H6120 (עָקֵב)), (foot-) step.

Derived from [עָקַב ʻâqab](https://besorah.bible/word/H6117) (to seize by the heel)

Occurs 13 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- עָקֵב n.m. heel, footprint, hinder-part

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 3:15](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/3?v=15) — I will put hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head…
- [Genesis 25:26](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/25?v=26) — After that, his brother came out, and his hand had hold on Esau’s heel. He was named Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old…
- [Genesis 49:17](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/49?v=17) — Dan will be a serpent on the trail, an adder in the path, that bites the horse’s heels, so that his rider falls…
- [Genesis 49:19](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/49?v=19) — “A troop will press on Gad, but he will press on their heel.
- [Joshua 8:13](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/8?v=13) — So they set the people, even all the army who was on the north of the city, and their ambush on the west of the city…
- [Judges 5:22](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/5?v=22) — Then the horse hoofs stamped because of the prancing, the prancing of their strong ones.
- [Jeremiah 13:22](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/13?v=22) — If you say in your heart, “Why have these things come on me?” Your skirts are uncovered because of the greatness of…
- [Psalms 41:10](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/41?v=10) — Yes, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, who ate bread with me, has lifted up his heel against me.
- [Psalms 56:7](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/56?v=7) — They conspire and lurk, watching my steps. They are eager to take my life.
- [Psalms 77:20](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/77?v=20) — Your way was through the sea, your paths through the great waters. Your footsteps were not known.