Strong's #6117: `aqab (pronounced aw-kab')

a primitive root; properly, to swell out or up; used only as denominative from 6119, 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.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

‛âqab

1) to supplant, circumvent, take by the heel, follow at the heel, assail insidiously, overreach

1a) (Qal) to supplant, overreach, attack at the heel

1b) (Piel) to hold back

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Usage:

This word is used 5 times:

 

Genesis 27:36: "Is not he rightly named Jacob? for he hath supplanted me these two times: he took away"
Job 37:4: "with the voice of his excellency; and he will not stay them when his voice is heard."
Jeremiah 9:4: "brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor"
Jeremiah 9:4: "brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor"
Hosea 12:3: " He took his brother by the heel in the womb, and by his strength he had power with God:"