Definition

to seize by the heel; figuratively, to circumvent (as if tripping up the heels); also to restrain (as if holding by the heel)

Etymology

a primitive root; properly, to swell out or up; used only as denominative from H6119 (עָקֵב),

Where the KJV renders it

• take by the heel
• stay
• supplant
• utterly

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

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