עָקֹבʻâqôb

עָקֹב: 1.

Pronunciation: aw-kobe' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H6121

Meanings

insidious, deceitful (Jeremiah 17:9)

2. foot-tracked, (denominative from I. עָקֵב) (Hosea 6:8)

עָקֹב: steep, hilly (Isaiah 40:4; Ecclesiastes 6:20)

Same root

עָקַבʻâqab · H6117to seize by the heel; figuratively, to circumvent (as if tripping up the heels); also to restrain (as if holding by the heel)

Where it appears

Appears 3 times in the Bible.

Isaiah 40:4 Fill in the valleys, and level the mountains and hills. Straighten the curves, and smooth out the rough places.
Jeremiah 17:9 “The human heart is the most deceitful of all things, and desperately wicked. Who really knows how bad it is?
Hosea 6:8 “Gilead is a city of sinners, tracked with footprints of blood.

Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).