▪ ʕQB_1 ‘heel’ ↗… ▪ ʕQB_2 ‘…’ ↗…♦ Semantic value spectrum in ClassAr (acc. to BAH2008): ‘heels, to arrive at the heel of, to follow, pursue, investigate; eagle; to turn back; to repair; result; to avenge o.s.; to punish; to interlace; obstacle; to detain’
▪ [v1] Kogan2011: from protSem *ʕaḳib‑ ‘heel’. – See also the special designation ↗ʕurqūb (< protWSem *ʕarḳ˅b‑) ‘Achilles’ tendon’. ▪ Huehnergard2011: WSem *√ʕQB ‘to follow, guard, protect’.
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▪ (Huehnergard2011:) Engl jack, jacket, Jacob, Jacobin, Jacquerie, James, from Hbr yaʕăqōb ‘(God) has protected’, from early NWSem *yaʕqub, pret. of *ʕaqaba ‘to follow, guard’.