עֲקַר
to be rooted up
‘to be rooted up’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
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
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Form
- Perfect
- A completed action or state — Hebrew marks aspect (completeness) more than strict tense (“he wrote”).
Person
- 3rd Person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Every verse where H6132 appears — 1 distinct verse 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.
Daniel 1 verse
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.
At its core, עקר (ʻăqar) means “to be rooted up.” A scarce word — 1 verse in all of the Hebrew Bible. The word gravitates to Daniel (100%). Its lone occurrence is Daniel 7:8. Ranging over 2 senses, it is not a single-sense word. Dig into 1-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H6132 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 →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #4,807
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 4,807 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Daniel 1 verse 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 1 distinct verse.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 1 verse · 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: Plucked up by the roots 1×
- American Standard Version: Were plucked up by the roots 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Were uprooted 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Were plucked up by the roots 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H6132 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H6132 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H6132 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H6132 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 2 senses 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.
- to pluck, be rooted up
- (Ithpeal) to be rooted up
Word origin
[ עֲקַר ] vb. denom. Hithpe. be rooted up;— Dn 7:8.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from עקר (ʻâqar) (H6131) — to pluck up.
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.
עָקַר
- [to be curved, bent; denom. עִיקָּר root,]
- 1. to uproot, tear loose, detach, remove; to eradicate, undo, abolish, abrogate. Hor. 14ᵃ עוֹקֵר הרים; Snh. 24ᵃ עוקר הרי הרים, v. הַר. Ab. III, 17 הרוח באה ועוֹקַרְתּוֹ וכ׳ a wind comes and uproots it and turns it &c. Pesik. Ekha, p. 123ᵃ כל מקום שנאמר ארון עוקר דיורין ומכניס וכ׳ wherever Adon (Master) is mentioned in the Bible, it means (the landlord) that displaces tenants and imports tenants; ib. עוקר כנענים וכ׳ who drives out the Canaanites and brings in the Israelites. Y. Yeb. I, 2ᵈ; ib. XIII, beg. 13ᵇ ממאנת … לַעֲקוֹר זיקת המת she may (on arriving at majority) refuse the Yabam, which has the effect of annulling her relation to her deceased husband. Ib. כל עמה מודיי שהיא עוֹקֶרֶת all agree that by doing so she annuls her marriage to her deceased husband. Pes. 101ᵇ עָקְרוּ רגליהן לצאת when they detached their feet, in order to go. Sabb. 5ᵃ ע׳ ממקומו וכ׳ (sub. רגליו) he moved from his place and received it. Y. Bets. V, 63ᵃ bot., v. קִיפּוּץ. Meg. 5ᵇ בקש לעקור תשעה וכ׳ wanted to abolish the fast of the Ninth of Ab. Pes. 115ᵇ אין עוֹקְרִין את השלחן we do not remove the table (v. comment.); a. v. fr.—Part. pass. עָקוּר; f. עֲקוּרָה; pl. עֲקוּרִים, עְקוּרִין; עֲקוּרוֹת a) uprooted, torn out. Peah VI, 9 תבואה ע׳ loose (cut) grain, שאינה ע׳ still in the ground.—b) = עָקָר [rootless,] barren, impotent. Yeb. 64ᵃ יצחק אבינו ע׳ היה Isaac was impotent; שניהם ע׳ היו both of them (Isaac and Rebecca) were impotent. Ib. מפני מה היו אבותינו ע׳ wherefore were our ancestors childless (until they prayed)?; a. fr.—Bekh. 44ᵇ (ref. to Deut. VII, 14 ועקרה) שלא תהא תפלתך ע׳ וכ׳ that thy prayer shall not be fruitless before the Lord; Yalk. Deut. 884 שלא … ע׳ מלפני המקום that thy prayer shall not be removed from before the Lord; שלא יהא ביתך עקור מן התלמידים (not עקורה) that thy house shall not be deprived of scholars. e.g. Deuteronomy 7:14
- 2. to mutilate, hamstring; to make barren, v. infra.
- to be uprooted; to be removed, eradicated, destroyed. Y. Kil. III, 28ᶜ bot. נֶעֶקְרוּ הראשונים if the first seeds have been taken out. Ber. IX, 1 הרואה … מקום שנֶעֶקְרָה וכ׳ he who sees … a place from which an idol has been removed (by destruction). Ib. 12ᵇ לא שתֵּעָקֵר … ממקומה וכ׳ not that the memory of the going out from Egypt will be removed from its place (entirely extinct) &c., v. עִיקָּר. Ib.ᵇ לא שיֵעָקֵר יעקב וכ׳ not that the name of Jacob will entirely fall into disuse; a. fr.
- to make barren (עָקָר). Cant. R. to II, 14 מפני מה הֶעֱקַרְתִּי אתכן why did I decree that you be childless? Because I desired to hear your prayer; Gen. R. s. 45 עִקּרְתִּי Pi. (or עָקַרְתִּי Kal).
- 1. to uproot; to tear loose &c. Gen. R. s. 42 מְעַקַּר בגפנים tried to uproot the vines (destroy the entire nation); Lev. R. s. 11. Ib. המן … לעַקֵּר וכ׳ Haman … undertook to destroy the vines; Gen. R. l. c. ביקש לַעֲקוֹר הגפן כלה. Ḥull. V, 3 המעקר he who tears loose the organs to be cut at slaughtering (v. סִימָן); a. fr.
- 2. to unfit, mutilate, hamstring; to make barren. Treat. S’maḥ. ch. VIII שורפין ומְעַקְּרִין לפני מלכים you may burn (clothes &c.) and hamstring horses at a king’s death; Ab. Zar. 11ᵃ עוֹקְרִין; Tosef. Sabb. VII (VIII), 19 עוקרין; v. עִיקּוּר. Gen. R. s. 45, v. supra; a. e.
- to be made barren. Ib. למה נִתְעַקְּרוּ האמהות וכ׳ why were the Mothers allowed to be childless? Because the Lord desired to hear their prayers; Cant. R. l. c.; a. e.
עֲקַר I
- , to uproot &c. Targ. II Kings III, 25. Targ. Jer. I, 10. Targ. Lam. III, 5; a. fr.
- to uproot, destroy; to mutilate, hamstring. Targ. II Sam. XVII, 13; a. e.—Ib. VIII, 4 (ed. Wil. עֲקַר Pe.). Targ. Josh. XI, 6; a. e.—Pes. 115ᵇ קא מְעַקְּרֵי תכא וכ׳ they want to remove the tray before us. Ib. 113ᵃ לא תְעַקֵּר ככא, v. כַּכָּא; a. e.
- 1. to be uprooted, detached, removed. Targ. Prov. II, 22. Ib. XXIV, 31. Targ. Ps. LXXVI, 7; a. fr.—Sabb. 63ᵇ, v. וְלַד. Pes. 101ᵃ ואִיתְעַקְּרָא ליה שרגא his lamp was upset. Y. Ab. Zar. II, 40ᶜ bot. ואִיתְעַקְּרוּן and they were ruined (their trade became extinct), opp. קמון they remained in the trade. Sabb. 147ᵇ איע׳ תלמודיה his learning was uprooted; i.e. he forgot what he had learned; a. e.
- 2. to become impotent. Yeb. 64ᵇ איע׳ מפרקיה דרב וכ׳ became impotent through sitting at the lectures of R. H. (by suppressing his needs). Keth. 62ᵇ אִיעַקְּרָא דביתהו his wife had lost the faculty of conceiving; a. e.
עִקָּר
- , v. עִיקָּר
עָקָר
- preced. wds.) [rootless,] sterile, impotent, barren. Bekh. 44ᵇ נמצא ע׳ he becomes impotent. Ib. (ref. to Deut. VII, 14) [read:] לא יהיה בך ע׳ שלא יהיה ביתך ע׳ מן התלמידים ‘there shall be no barren one among thee’, means that thy house shall never be barren of scholars (v. Yalk. Deut. 848); Deut. R. s. 3 עקר ועקרה מן התשובה impotent to give a proper answer (to heretics). Ib. לא תהא תפלתך ע׳, v. עָקַר. Gen. R. s. 53 לא היית אומר אברם פרדה ע׳ וכ׳ didst thou not say, Abram is a barren mule &c.?; B. Bath. 91ᵃ (in Chald. dict.) כודנא עקרה, v. כּוּדְנָא; a. fr.—Num. R. s. 14 (play on עקרת, Num. VII, 55) א"ת קערת אלא עֲקֶרֶת כנגד יעקב וכ׳ read not ḳaʿãrath (dish), but ʿãḳereth (uprooted), corresponding to Jacob who wrested the birthright from Reuben and gave it to Joseph.—Pl. עֲקָרִים; f. עֲקָרוֹת. Gen. R. s. 39 אברהם … על הע׳ וכ׳ Abraham prayed for the childless women, and they were visited. Gen. R. s. 53 הרבה ע׳ נפקדו עמה many childless ones were visited at the same time with her (Sarah); a. fr. e.g. Deuteronomy 7:14
עֲקַר II
- same. Targ. O. Deut. VII, 14. Targ. Ps. CXIII, 9; a. fr.—Sabb. 152ᵃ עקר Ag. Hatt. (ed. עיקרא), v. אִיקָא. Gen. R. s. 47, beg. וצווחין דא ע׳; ib. s. 53, v. יְנֵי I. Yeb. 65ᵇ סמא דע׳ a drug which causes barrenness; a. fr.—Pl. עַקְרִין; f. עַקְרָן. Targ. Y. Deut. l. c. (ed. Vien. נשין עקרין, corr. acc.).
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 2 distinct written forms H6132 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that stem’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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| אֶתְעֲקַ֖רָה | Verb, Pilel, Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural | Daniel 7:8 | 1 |
| אתעקרו | Verb, Pilel, Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural | Daniel 7:8 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H6132, 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
Derived from this word
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 6 — 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.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 1 verse that also exists in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 1 Hebrew verse 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.
