עַקּוּב
Akkub
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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
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
Every verse where H6126 appears in the Book of 1 Chronicles — 2 distinct verses. 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.
1 Chronicles
- 1 Chronicles 3:24 וְ֠/עַקּוּב conj + n Proper The sons of Elioenai: Hodaviah, and Eliashib, and Pelaiah, and Akkub, and Johanan, and Delaiah, and Anani, seven.
- 1 Chronicles 9:17 וְ/עַקּ֔וּב conj + n Proper The porters: Shallum, and Akkub, and Talmon, and Ahiman, and their brothers (Shallum was the chief),
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.
עקוב (ʻAqqûwb) is a Hebrew name most often rendered “Akkub.” Nehemiah dominates its distribution — 4 of 8 verses. Spanning 8 verses in 3 books, it ranks among the uncommon words of the Hebrew Bible. It first appears in 1 Chronicles 3:24. For the data behind this summary, explore 8-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H6126 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 →
- 8
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 8 distinct verses.
- 3 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 3 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,625
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,625 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 8 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Nehemiah 4 verses 50%
- 1 Chronicles 2 verses 25%
- Ezra 2 verses 25%
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 8 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 8 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: Akkub 8×
- American Standard Version: Akkub 8×
- Berean Standard Bible: Akkub 8×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Akkub 8×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H6126 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H6126 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H6126 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H6126 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
8 senses and sub-senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 8 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
- 1. descendant of David 1 Ch 3:24. e.g. 1 Chronicles 3:24
- 2. heads of post-exilic families:
- a. Ezr 2:42 = Ne 7:45. e.g. Ezra 2:43
- b. Ezr 2:45 (si vera l.). e.g. Ezra 2:45
- 3. Levites:
- a. 1 Ch 9:17. e.g. 1 Chronicles 9:17
- b. Ne 8:7. e.g. Nehemiah 8:7
- c. Ne 11:19; 12:25. e.g. Nehemiah 11:19
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
n.pr.m. 𝔊B usually (Ι)ακουν[μ], A 𝔊 L Ακ(κ)ουβ:—
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from עקב (ʻâqab) (H6117) — to supplant.
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.
עָקוֹב
- (עָקַב) [crooked, tricky,] aḳob, a thing believed to prevent (or absorb) rain. Snh. 108ᵇ יש לנו … ע׳ שמו Ar. (ed. ועקב) we have something, its name is ʿa.; Yalk. Job 906 ועקב; v. עָקוֹשׁ. Cmp. אִלִּיתָא.
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 7 distinct written forms H6126 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| עַקּ֔וּב | Noun, Proper | Ezra 2:42 | 2 |
| וְ/עַקּ֔וּב | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 9:17 | 1 |
| וְ֠/עַקּוּב | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 3:24 | 1 |
| עַקּ֑וּב | Noun, Proper | Nehemiah 12:25 | 1 |
| עַקּ֡וּב | Noun, Proper | Nehemiah 8:7 | 1 |
| עַקּ֣וּב | Noun, Proper | Nehemiah 11:19 | 1 |
| עַקּֽוּב | Noun, Proper | Ezra 2:45 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H6126, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
- עקב ʻêqeb H6118 consequence
- עקב ʻâqêb H6119 heel
- עקב ʻâqêb H6120 supplanter
- עקב ʻâqôb H6121 deceitful
- עקבה ʻoqbâh H6122 craftiness
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 8 — not the complete family. 1 of the same-root words is a proper name (a person or place). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Akkub). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Easton's Bible Dictionary · M. G. Easton, 1897
(another form of Jacob). (1.) The head of one of the families of Nethinim (Ezra 2:45).
(2.) A Levite who kept the gate of the temple after the return from Babylon (1 Chr. 9:17; Ezra 2:42; Neh. 7:45).
(3.) A descendant of David (1 Chr. 3:24).
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(insidious).
+ A descendant of Zerubbabel and son of Elioenai. (1 Chronicles 3:24) + One of the porters or doorkeepers at the east gate of the temple. (B.C. 636-440.) + One of the Nethinim, whole family returned with Zerubbabel. (Ezra 2:45) (B.C. 536.) + A Levite who assisted Ezra in expounding the law to the people. (Nehemiah 8:7)
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
foot-print; supplanting; crookedness; lewdness
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 4 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 8 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
