(עקר, ‛aÌ„kÌ£ar, “to root outâ€): To hamstring, i.e. to render useless by cutting the tendons of the hock (in the King James Version and the English Revised Version “houghâ€). “In their selfwill they hocked an ox†(, the King James Version “digged down a wallâ€), in their destructiveness maiming those which they could not carry off: See also , ; .