ʕqb / Semitic roots

Examples of words with the root ʕqb: Jacob.

ʕqb

West Semitic, to follow, guard, protect.

jack, jacket, Jacob, Jacobin, Jacquerie, James, from Hebrew yaʕăqōb, (God) has protected, from early Northwest Semitic *yaʕqub, preterite of *ʕaqaba, to follow, guard.


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