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HebrewH3290Proper Noun (Masculine)

יַעֲקֹב

ya.a.qov

282Occurrences
H3290Strong's #
Proper Noun (Masculine)Part of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

Jaakob, the Israelitish patriarch

from H6117 (עָקַב); heel-catcher (i.e. supplanter);

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
A man living at the time of the Patriarchs, first mentioned at ; son of: Isaac (H3327) and Rebekah (H7259); brother of: Esau (H6215); married to Rachel (H7354), Leah (H3812), Zilpah (H2153) and Bilhah (H1090A); father of: Reuben (H7205), Simeon (H8095), Levi (H3878), Judah (H3063), Dan (H1835H), Naphtali (H5321), Gad (H1410), Asher (H0836), Issachar (H3485), Zebulun (H2074), Dinah (H1783), Joseph (H3130) and Benjamin (H1144); also called Jacob frequently Another name of yis.ra.el (*יִשְׂרָאֵל *"Israel" H3478) § Jacob = "heel holder" or "supplanter" son of Isaac, grandson of Abraham, and father of the 12 patriarchs of the tribes of Israel

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Proper Noun (Masculine)

Morphology Code

N:N-M-P

Full Description

Proper Noun, Masculine

Occurrences

יַעֲקֹב appears 282 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

Genesis
144
Isaiah
39
Psalms
19
Jeremiah
13
Exodus
11
Deuteronomy
10
Micah
8
Numbers
8

Key Passages

1 Chronicles 16:13BSB

O offspring of His servant Israel,O sons of Jacob, His chosen ones.

Genesis 27:42BSB

When the words of her older son Esau were relayed to Rebekah, she sent for her younger son Jacob and told him, “Look, your brother Esau is consoling himself by plotting to kill you.

Genesis 31:45BSB

So Jacob picked out a stone and set it up as a pillar,

Genesis 46:27BSB

And with the two sons who had been born to Joseph in Egypt, the members of Jacob’s family who went to Egypt were seventy in all.

Jeremiah 2:4BSB

Hear the word of the LORD, O house of Jacob, and all you families of the house of Israel.

Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.