1. עָקַב
follow at the heel, assail insidiously, circumvent, overreach
The corpus record — Hebrew
וַֽיַּעְקְבֵ֨נִי֙
aqab · vb
follow at the heel, assail insidiously, circumvent, overreach
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Distribution
- Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) 5 · 0.16/10k
Senses
2. עָקַב
to seize by the heel; figuratively, to circumvent (as if tripping up the heels); also to restrain (as if holding by the heel)
Attestations
- וַֽ/יַּעְקְבֵ֨/נִי֙ Genesis 27:36 (BHS)
- עָק֣וֹב Jeremiah 9:3 (BHS)
- יַעְקֹ֔ב Jeremiah 9:3 (BHS)
- עָקַ֣ב Hosea 12:4 (BHS)
- יְ֝עַקְּבֵ֗/ם Job 37:4 (BHS)
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Hebrew text from the Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology and lemmatization from the OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible (OSHB), CC BY 4.0. Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB) lexicon, public domain.