Lexicon aqrab: scorpion Original Word: עַקְרָבPart of Speech: Noun Masculine Transliteration: aqrab Phonetic Spelling: (ak-rawb') Short Definition: scorpions NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom the same as eqerDefinitionscorpion NASB Translationscorpions (6).
Brown-Driver-Briggs עַקְרָב noun masculine scorpion (apparently quadriliteral; Late Hebrew id.; Assyrian a‡rabu; Ethiopic  ; Arabic  ; ᵑ7 עַקְרַבָּא); **< [ feminine] as in Late Hebrew, Syriac, Mandaean, Arabic (Levy gives Talmud [Aramaic] as masculine, but are readings correct?), Nöldeke (privately). — absolute עַקְרָב Deuteronomy 8:15 (collective; of wilderness), plural עַקְרַבִּים Ezekiel 2:6 (figurative of enemies); ׳יִסַּר בָּע 1 Kings 12:11,14 2Chronicles 10:11,14, i.e. scourges with points, stings. — See also מַעֲלֵה עַקְרַבִּים. Strong's scorpion Of uncertain derivation; a scorpion; figuratively, a scourge or knotted whip -- scorpion. |
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