Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
cunning
Usage: subtlety, insidiousness, craftiness
Oqbah means “subtilty” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Strong's H6122 עָקבָּה (`oqbah) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. `oqbah (ok-baw') n-f. 1. trickery [feminine of an unused form from H6117 meaning a trick] It has 1 linked Bible usage across 1 book. Visible English usage signals include subtilty. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
`oqbah (ok-baw') n-f. 1. trickery [feminine of an unused form from H6117 meaning a trick] KJV: subtilty. Root(s): H6117
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cunning
Usage: subtlety, insidiousness, craftiness
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render `oqbah, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
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1 indexed usage in Old Testament.
Now therefore call unto me all the prophets of Baal, all his servants, and all his priests; let none be wanting: for I have a great sacrifice to do to Baal; whosoever shall be wanting, he shall not live. But Jehu did it in subtilty, to the intent that he might destroy the worshippers of Baal.
First 1 linked usage excerpt for Strong's H6122.
Now therefore call unto me all the prophets of Baal, all his servants, and all his priests; let none be wanting: for I have a great sacrifice to do to Baal; whosoever shall be wanting, he shall not live. But Jehu did it in subtilty, to the intent that he might destroy the worshippers of Baal.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H6122, grouped by book.
Oqbah (Strong's H6122) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "subtilty". `oqbah (ok-baw') n-f. 1. trickery [feminine of an unused form from H6117 meaning a trick]
This page currently indexes 1 linked usage for Strong's H6122 across 1 book.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H6122 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as subtilty. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.