עָקֹב (ʿāqōb) is
a Hebrew adjective
meaning steep. It appears
3 times
in 3 books of the Hebrew Bible
(Strong's H6121).
Also rendered
fraudulent
insidious
Same Hebrew root (TWOT 1676c)
Range of meaning (TWOT 1676c)steep, hilly; insidious, deceitful; foot-tracked; fraudulent; tracked; crooked, polluted
Full entry: Brown-Driver-Briggs and Strong's
עָקֹבadjective: steep, hilly
עָקֹבadjective
1.insidious, deceitful
2.foot-tracked
Strong's H6121עָקֹב: (transitive) fraudulent or (intransitive) tracked KJV:crooked, deceitful, polluted.
Meanings: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906) and Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1890), public domain, via the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0). TWOT numbers for reference only.
Root family 1676: עָקַבʿāqab — follow at the heel, assail insidiously, circumvent, overreach; attack at the heel, hold back; seize by the heel, restrain; take by the heel, stay, supplant