Ἰακώβ
Iakōb
“Jacob”
Definition
Jacob (i.e. Ja`akob), the progenitor of the Israelites
of Hebrew origin (H03290);
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word, saying, account
Grammar & Morphology
Proper Noun (Masculine)
N:N-M-P
Proper Noun, Masculine
Occurrences
Ἰακώβ appears 25 times in the New Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified His servant Jesus. You handed Him over and rejected Him before Pilate, even though he had decided to release Him.
‘I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.’ Moses trembled with fear and did not dare to look.
So He came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground that Jacob had given to his son Joseph.
Even Moses demonstrates that the dead are raised, in the passage about the burning bush. For he calls the Lord ‘the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.’
‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’? He is not the God of the dead, but of the living.”
Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.