King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER H1970
Transliteration: hakar
Phonetic Spelling: (haw-kar')
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: perhaps to wrong
Meaning: perhaps to wrong
Word Summary
hakar: perhaps to wrong
Original Word: הָכַרTransliteration: hakar
Phonetic Spelling: (haw-kar')
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: perhaps to wrong
Meaning: perhaps to wrong
Strong's Concordance
make self strange A primitive root; apparently to injure -- make self strange.
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H1970. hakar
[הָכַר] verb only
Qal or
Hiph`il (Ges§ 53 R. 4 Köi. 251) Imperfect2masculine plural תַּהְכְּרוּ in phrase תַהְכְּרוּלִֿי לֹאתֵֿבשׁוּ Job 19:3, sense very dubious; Schult Thes De and others (as Hiph`il) ye came me (לְ = accusative) to wonder (compare Arabic ); others (as Qal) ye deal hardy with, wrong me (so context seems rather to require, see Ges in Add84 Rob-Ges Ew Di Da RV; compare Arabic wrong, detract from; Manuscripts read תחכרו, which is preferable, if this meaning be adopted; ᵐ5 ἑπίκεισθέ μοι, ᵑ9 opprimentes); conjectures are תְּחָֽרְפוּ OlHiob; אֵלָ֑י תַּחַבְרוּ Me; Siegf תִּתְחַבְּרוּ.