| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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Appendix II
Semitic Roots |
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| ENTRY: | cqb. |
| DEFINITION: | West Semitic, to follow, guard, protect. jack, jacket, Jacob, Jacobin, Jacquerie, James, from Hebrew yac q b, (God) has protected, from early Northwest Semitic *yacqub, preterite of *caqaba, to follow, guard. |
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