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Jeremiah 17:9
“The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
עָקֹבʻâqôb · aw-kobe'
H6121 · Hebrew
H6121 · Hebrew
- Definition
- (transitive) fraudulent or (intransitive) tracked
- Derivation
- from H6117 (עָקַב); in the original sense, a knoll (as swelling up); in the denominative sense
- KJV renderings
- crooked, deceitful, polluted.
- Grammar
- עָקֹ֥ב — adjective, masculine, singular, absolute
- Usage
- Occurs 3 times in the Hebrew Bible.Isaiah 40:4Hosea 6:8
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read עָקֹב here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.