- Original: עקב - Transliteration: `aqab - Phonetic: aw-kab' - Definition: 1. to supplant, circumvent, take by the heel, follow at the heel, assail insidiously, overreach a. (Qal) to supplant, overreach, attack at the heel b. (Piel) to hold back - Origin: a primitive root - TWOT entry: 1676 - Part(s) of speech: Verb - Strong's: 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 X utterly. Total KJV Occurrences: 5 • heel, 1 Hosea 12:3 • stay, 1 Job 37:4 • supplant, 2 Jeremiah 9:4(2) • supplanted, 1 Genesis 27:36