עָקָר
ʻâqâr · aw-kawr'
sterile (as if extirpated in the generative organs)
Lexicon
Derivation: from H6131 (עָקַר);
sterile (as if extirpated in the generative organs)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: ([idiom] male or female) barren (woman).
Letters
- עAyin70
Picture: an eye
- Concrete
- eye · spring of water
- Extended
- to see · to know · experience · to watch
- קQof100
Picture: the back of the head, or the sun on the horizon
- Concrete
- back of the head · rising sun · circle
- Extended
- what is behind · the last · a cycle · to come around again
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to see and know › what comes behind, the returning cycle › the head, the highest
To see and know of what comes behind, the returning cycle of the head, the highest.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of עָקָר above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
12 occurrences · 12 OT · 0 NT · 9 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- was barren3 · 25%
- because she was barren1 · 8%
- nor be barren1 · 8%
- there shall not be male1 · 8%
- or female barren1 · 8%
- unto her, behold now, thou art barren1 · 8%
- so that the barren1 · 8%
- the barren1 · 8%
- he maketh the barren woman1 · 8%
- o barren1 · 8%
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.