עָקַרʻâqar/aw-kar'/
HebrewH61317 occurrences (KJV)
to pluck up (especially by the roots); specifically, to hamstring; figuratively, to exterminate
KJV renders it: dig down, hough, pluck up, root up.
Where it appears
- Gen 49:6My soul, don’t come into their council. My glory, don’t be united to their assembly; for in their anger they killed men. In their self-will they hamstrung cattle.
- Josh 11:6Yahweh said to Joshua, “Don’t be afraid because of them; for tomorrow at this time, I will deliver them up all slain before Israel. You shall hamstring their horses and burn their chariots with fire.”
- Josh 11:9Joshua did to them as Yahweh told him. He hamstrung their horses and burned their chariots with fire.
- 2 Sam 8:4David took from him one thousand seven hundred horsemen and twenty thousand footmen. David hamstrung all the chariot horses, but reserved of them for one hundred chariots.
- 1 Chr 18:4David took from him one thousand chariots, seven thousand horsemen, and twenty thousand footmen; and David hamstrung all the chariot horses, but reserved of them enough for one hundred chariots.
- Eccl 3:2a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;
- Zeph 2:4For Gaza will be forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation. They will drive out Ashdod at noonday, and Ekron will be rooted up.
Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.