עָקַב
ʻâqab(aw-kab')
“to seize by the heel; figuratively, to circumvent (as if tripping up the heels); also to restrain (as if holding by the heel)”
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Definition
From Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon (1906)
Strong’s Definition
to seize by the heel; figuratively, to circumvent (as if tripping up the heels); also to restrain (as if holding by the heel)
Translated in KJV as
take by the heelstaysupplant[idiom] utterly.
Etymology
a primitive root; properly, to swell out or up; used only as denominative from H6119 (עָקֵב),
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