Strong's Hebrew · H3290
H3290 Yaʻăqôb
יַעֲקֹב
yah-ak-obe'
Jacob
Yaʻăqôb appears 349 times in Scripture, including Genesis 25:26 and Genesis 25:27. In the Doxa app, open any verse that uses it, keep your notes on it, and ask Doxa Engage how it connects to what God has said to you.
Definition
Jaakob, the Israelitish patriarch
In the King James Version
Jacob.
Derivation
from H6117 (עָקַב); heel-catcher (i.e. supplanter);
Appears 349 times in Scripture
“When the boys grew up, Esau became a skillful hunter, a man of the field, while Jacob was a quiet man who stayed at home.”
“So Laban went into Jacob’s tent, then Leah’s tent, and then the tents of the two maidservants, but he found nothing. Then he left Leah’s tent and entered Rachel’s tent.”
“and Bilhah conceived and bore him a son.”
“After this, his brother came out grasping Esau’s heel; so he was named Jacob. And Isaac was sixty years old when the twins were born.”
“When Rachel saw that she was not bearing any children for Jacob, she envied her sister. “Give me children, or I will die!” she said to Jacob.”
“Jacob became angry with Rachel and said, “Am I in the place of God, who has withheld children from you?””
“So Rachel gave Jacob her servant Bilhah as a wife, and he slept with her,”
“Then Joseph brought in his father Jacob and presented him before Pharaoh, and Jacob blessed Pharaoh.”
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Word study: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), with glosses and editions from STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org); Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0); Strong's Greek Dictionary in XML by Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen (CC0). Sources and changes Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).
