Limitless Word
עָקֵבʻâqêb/aw-kabe'/
HebrewH611913 occurrences (KJV)

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

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

Where it appears

  • Gen 3:15I will put hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel.”
  • Gen 25:26After that, his brother came out, and his hand had hold on Esau’s heel. He was named Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when she bore them.
  • Gen 49:17Dan will be a serpent on the trail, an adder in the path, That bites the horse’s heels, so that his rider falls backward.
  • Gen 49:19“A troop will press on Gad, but he will press on their heel.
  • Josh 8:13So 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; and Joshua went that night into the middle of the valley.
  • Judg 5:22Then the horse hoofs stamped because of the prancing, the prancing of their strong ones.
  • Job 18:9A snare will take him by the heel. A trap will catch him.
  • Ps 41:9Yes, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, who ate bread with me, has lifted up his heel against me.
  • Ps 56:6They conspire and lurk, watching my steps, they are eager to take my life.
  • Ps 77:19Your way was through the sea; your paths through the great waters. Your footsteps were not known.
  • Ps 89:51With which your enemies have mocked, Yahweh, with which they have mocked the footsteps of your anointed one.
  • Song 1:8If you don’t know, most beautiful among women, follow the tracks of the sheep. Graze your young goats beside the shepherds’ tents.
  • Jer 13:22If you say in your heart, “Why are these things come on me?” For the greatness of your iniquity your skirts are uncovered, and your heels suffer violence.

Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.