Strong's Hebrew · H79
H79 ʼâbaq
אָבַק
aw-bak'
to wrestle
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ʼâbaq appears twice in Scripture, in Genesis 32:24 and Genesis 32:25. In the Doxa app, open each of these verses, keep your notes on them, and ask Doxa Engage how it connects to what God has said to you.
Definition
to bedust, i.e. grapple
In the King James Version
wrestle.
Derivation
a primitive root, probably to float away (as vapor), but used only as denominative from H80 (אָבָק);
Appears 2 times in Scripture
“So Jacob was left all alone, and there a man wrestled with him until daybreak.”
“When the man saw that he could not overpower Jacob, he struck the socket of Jacob’s hip and dislocated it as they wrestled.”
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Word study: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), with glosses and editions from STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org); Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0); Strong's Greek Dictionary in XML by Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen (CC0). Sources and changes Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).
