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.Browse all Indo-European or Semitic roots.