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Appendix II

Semitic Roots

ENTRY:	^cqb.
DEFINITION:	West Semitic, to follow, guard, protect. jack, jacket, Jacob, Jacobin, Jacquerie, James, from Hebrew ya^cqb, (God) has protected, from early Northwest Semitic ya^cqub, preterite of ^caqaba, to follow, guard.


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