עָקֹד
striped
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Adjective
- A word that describes or qualifies a noun.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Plural, Absolute 6 times (86%)
- Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute 1 time (14%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 7 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H6124 appears — 6 distinct verses across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Genesis 6 verses
- Genesis 30:35 הָֽ/עֲקֻדִּ֣ים ptcl def.art + Adjective Adjective mp That day, he removed the male goats that were streaked and spotted, and all the female goats that were speckled and spotted, every one that had white in it, and all the black ones among the sheep, and gave them into the hand of his sons.
- Genesis 30:39 עֲקֻדִּ֥ים adj Adjective mp The flocks conceived before the rods, and the flocks brought forth streaked, speckled, and spotted.
- Genesis 30:40 עָקֹ֛ד adj Adjective ms Jacob separated the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the streaked and all the black in the flock of Laban: and he put his own droves apart, and didn't put them into Laban's flock.
- Genesis 31:8 עֲקֻדִּים֙ עֲקֻדִּֽים adj Adjective mp adj Adjective mp If he said this, 'The speckled will be your wages,' then all the flock bore speckled. If he said this, 'The streaked will be your wages,' then all the flock bore streaked.
- Genesis 31:10 עֲקֻדִּ֥ים adj Adjective mp It happened at the time that the flock conceive, that I lifted up my eyes, and saw in a dream, and behold, the male goats which leaped on the flock were streaked, speckled, and grizzled.
- Genesis 31:12 עֲקֻדִּ֥ים adj Adjective mp He said, 'Now lift up your eyes, and behold, all the male goats which leap on the flock are streaked, speckled, and grizzled, for I have seen all that Laban does to you.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
The Hebrew adjective עקד centers on the idea of “striped.” Genesis dominates its distribution — 6 of 6 verses. Spanning 6 verses in 1 book, it ranks among the uncommon words of the Hebrew Bible. Its earliest occurrence is Genesis 30:35. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H6124 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 6
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 6 distinct verses.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,835
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,835 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 6 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Genesis 6 verses 100%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 6 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 6 verses · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Ringstraked 4×, Were ringstraked 2×
- American Standard Version: Ringstreaked 3×, Were ringstreaked 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Streaked 4×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Streaked 4×, Were streaked 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H6124 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H6124 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H6124 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H6124 across 9 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- streaked, striped
Word origin
adj. striped, streaked;—of Jacob’s goats and sheep; as subst. ע׳ Gn 30:40 (coll.), pl. עֲקֻדִּים 31:8(×2); pl. as attrib. 30:35, 39, pred. 31:10, 12.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from עקד (ʻâqad) (H6123) — to bind.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
עָקַד
- (b. h.) [to bend; cmp. כָּפַת,]
- 1. to tie hand to foot, contrad. to כפת (v. infra). Gen. R. s. 56 כל מה שהיה אברהם אבינו עוֹקֵד … הקב"ה כופת וכ׳ as Abraham was tying his son here below, so the Lord bound &c. Lev. R. s. 2; a. fr.—Part. pass. עָקוּד. Sabb. V, 3 לא ע׳ ולא רגול, expl. ib. 54ᵃ ע׳ עקידת יד ורגל כיצחק וכ׳ ʿaḳud refers to tying foreleg to hindleg like the tying of Isaac &c., ragul refers to bending the forefoot upward and tying it to the foreleg; Y. ib. V, 7ᵇ bot. ע׳ בידו אחת; Tosef. ib. IV (V), 3 (v. Var. ed. Zuck.); a. e.
- 2. (denom. of עֲקֵידָה) to sacrifice. R. Hash. 16ᵃ כאילו עֲקַדְתֶּם וכ׳ as if you offered yourselves, v. עֲקֵידָה. Lev. R. s. 30 (play on כפת, Lev. XXIII, 40) זה יצחק שהיה כפות ועָקוּד וכ׳ this typifies Isaac, who was tied and offered up on the altar; a. e. —Gitt. 57ᵇ אתה עָקַדְתָּ אחד ואני עָקַדְתִּי וכ׳ מזבח thou (Abraham) hast put up one altar, but I have put up seven altars (offered seven martyred sons). e.g. Leviticus 23:40
- to be tied; to be put on the altar. Gen. R. l. c. זה לַעֲקוֹד וזה לֵיעָקֵד the one (ready) to sacrifice, the other to be sacrificed. Pirké d’R. El. ch. XXXI; Yalk. Gen. 101 האב מַעֲקִיד בכל לב והבן נ׳ וכ׳ the father offering with a whole heart, and the son offering himself with a whole heart. Ib. רחם … שהוא אדם ובן אדם ונ׳ וכ׳ have pity on Isaac who is a human being, son of a human being, and is being offered before thee like a dumb beast; a. fr.
- 1. to tie (foreleg to hindleg). Tam. IV, 1 (30ᵇ) לא היו כופתין … אלא מַעֲקִידִין אותו (Mish. ed. מְעַקְּדִין Pi.) they did not bind the lamb (all feet together), but tied it, expl. ib. 31ᵇ יד ורגל כעקידת וכ׳, v. supra.
- 2. to put on the altar. Pesik. Aḥãré, p. 170ᵇ והֶעֱקִידוֹ ע"ג המזבח and laid him tied on the altar; a. e.
- same, v. supra.
עֲקַד
- 1. same, to tie; to offer. Targ. O. Gen. XXII, 9. Targ. Y. II, Lev. XXII, 27. Targ. II Esth. V, 1; a. e.—
- *2. to bend, bow. Targ. Y. II, Ex. IV, 31. Ib. XXXIV, 8 (ed. Vien. אֲקַד). Targ. Y. Gen. XXIV, 48 ועקדית Ar. (ed. וגחנית).
- to be tied; to be put on the altar. Targ. Mic. VII, 20. Targ. Y. I Lev. l. c. (Y. II עקד גרמיה). Targ. II Esth. l. c.; a. e.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 5 distinct written forms H6124 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| עֲקֻדִּ֥ים | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Genesis 30:39 | 3 |
| הָֽ/עֲקֻדִּ֣ים | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Genesis 30:35 | 1 |
| עֲקֻדִּֽים | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Genesis 31:8 | 1 |
| עֲקֻדִּים֙ | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Genesis 31:8 | 1 |
| עָקֹ֛ד | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Genesis 30:40 | 1 |
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 6 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 6 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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