עָקַר ʻâqar

Meaning

to pluck up (especially by the roots); specifically, to hamstring; figuratively, to exterminate

In the King James Version: dig down, hough, pluck up, root up.

Derivation: a primitive root;

Where it is used

• Genesis 49:6 May I never enter their council; may I never join their assembly. For they kill men in their anger, and hamstring oxen on a whim.
• Joshua 11:6 Then the LORD said to Joshua, “Do not be afraid of them, for by this time tomorrow I will deliver all of them slain before Israel. You are to hamstring their horses and burn up their chariots.”
• Joshua 11:9 Joshua treated them as the LORD had told him; he hamstrung their horses and burned up their chariots.
• 2 Samuel 8:4 David captured from him a thousand chariots, seven thousand charioteers, and twenty thousand foot soldiers, and he hamstrung all the horses except a hundred he kept for the chariots.
• 1 Chronicles 18:4 David captured from him a thousand chariots, seven thousand charioteers, and twenty thousand foot soldiers, and he hamstrung all the horses except a hundred he kept for the chariots.
• Ecclesiastes 3:2 a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot,
• Zephaniah 2:4 For Gaza will be abandoned, and Ashkelon left in ruins. Ashdod will be driven out at noon, and Ekron will be uprooted.