- Original: עקר
- Transliteration: `aqar
- Phonetic: aw-kar'
- Definition: 
1. to pluck up, root up 
a. (Qal) to pluck up, root up 
b. (Niphal) to be plucked up 
2. to cut, hamstring 
a. (Piel) to cut, hamstring 
- Origin: a primitive root
- TWOT entry: 1681,1682
- Part(s) of speech: Verb 
- Strong's: A primitive root; to pluck up (especially by the roots); specifically to hamstring; figuratively to exterminate: - dig down hough pluck up root up. 
Total KJV Occurrences: 7 
 • down, 1
 
Genesis 49:6 
 
 • hamstring, 1
 
Joshua 11:6 
 
 • hamstrung, 3
 
Joshua 11:9; 
2 Samuel 8:4; 
1 Chronicles 18:4 
 
 • up, 2
 
Ecclesiastes 3:2; 
Zephaniah 2:4