H6117

עקב

עקב
iqab

Verb · A primitive root

A primitive root; properly, to swell out or up; used only as denominative from H6119, to seize by the heel; figuratively, to circumvent (as if tripping up the heels); also to restrain (as if holding by the heel):—take by the heel, stay, supplant, × utterly.

Outline

  1. to supplant, circumvent, take by the heel, follow at the heel, assail insidiously, overreach
    1. (Qal) to supplant, overreach, attack at the heel
    2. (Piel) to hold back
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