1) the heel (of the foot)
2) to lift up the heel against one
2a) to injure one by trickery (figure borrowed either from kicking, or from a wrestler tripping up his antagonist)
Part of Speech: noun feminine
G4418
Of uncertain derivation; the heel (figuratively): - heel.
| Gloss | Section |
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| heel | 8.52 |
| (ἐπαίρω τὴν πτέρναν) oppose | 39.3 |
These two sites give similar information, with the definition from several dictionaries and statistics on the use of the word.
University of Chicago's Logion lexicon
Thayer's dictionary plus other information.
From this site's dictionary (in Italian)
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