HebrewH2999Noun

יַבֹּק

yab.boq

6Occurrences
H2999Strong's #
NounPart of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

Jabbok, a river east of the Jordan

probably from H1238 (בָּקַק); pouring forth;

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
§ Jabbok = "emptying" a stream which intersects the mountain range of Gilead, and falls into the Jordan on the east about midway between the Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun

Morphology Code

N:N--L

Full Description

N:N--L

Occurrences

יַבֹּק appears 6 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

Deuteronomy
2
Judges
2
Joshua
1
Numbers
1

Key Passages

Deuteronomy 2:37BSB

But you did not go near the land of the Ammonites, or the land along the banks of the Jabbok River, or the cities of the hill country, or any place that the LORD our God had forbidden.

Deuteronomy 3:16BSB

and to the Reubenites and Gadites I gave the territory from Gilead to the Arnon Valley (the middle of the valley was the border) and up to the Jabbok River, the border of the Ammonites.

Judges 11:13BSB

The king of the Ammonites answered Jephthah’s messengers, “When Israel came up out of Egypt, they seized my land, from the Arnon to the Jabbok and all the way to the Jordan. Now, therefore, restore it peaceably.”

Judges 11:22BSB

seizing all the land from the Arnon to the Jabbok and from the wilderness to the Jordan.

Joshua 12:2BSB

Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon. He ruled from Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Valley, along the middle of the valley, up to the Jabbok River (the border of the Ammonites), that is, half of Gilead,

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