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Lexicon :: Strong's G2384 - iakōb

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Ἰακώβ
Transliteration
iakōb (Key)
Pronunciation
ee-ak-obe'
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Part of Speech
proper masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Of Hebrew origin יַעֲקֹב (H3290)
mGNT
27x in 2 unique form(s) TR
27x in 2 unique form(s) LXX
370x in 1 unique form(s)
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TDNT Reference: *,344

Strong’s Definitions

Ἰακώβ Iakṓb, ee-ak-obe'; of Hebrew origin (H3290); Jacob (i.e. Ja`akob), the progenitor of the Israelites:—also an Israelite:—Jacob.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 27x

The KJV translates Strong's G2384 in the following manner: Jacob (27x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 27x
The KJV translates Strong's G2384 in the following manner: Jacob (27x).

  1. Jacob = "heel-catcher or supplanter"

    1. was the second son of Isaac

    2. the father of Joseph, the husband of Mary

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
Ἰακώβ Iakṓb, ee-ak-obe'; of Hebrew origin (H3290); Jacob (i.e. Ja`akob), the progenitor of the Israelites:—also an Israelite:—Jacob.
STRONGS G2384:
Ἰακώβ, ὁ, (יַעֲקֹב [i. e. heel-catcher, supplanter]), Jacob;
1. the second of Isaac's sons: Matthew 1:2; Matthew 8:11; John 4:5; Acts 7:8; Romans 9:13, etc. Hebraistically equivalent to the descendants of Jacob: Romans 11:26, (Numbers 23:7; Isaiah 41:8; [Hebrew text] Jeremiah 33:26; Sir. 23:12; 1 Macc. 3:7, and often).
2. the father of Joseph, the husband of Mary the mother of the Saviour: Matthew 1:15f.
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Numbers
23:7
Isaiah
41:8
Jeremiah
33:26
Matthew
1:2; 1:15; 8:11
John
4:5
Acts
7:8
Romans
9:13; 11:26

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G2384 matches the Greek Ἰακώβ (iakōb),
which occurs 27 times in 25 verses in the MGNT Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 1:2

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 1:2 - Abraham was the father of Isaac, and Isaac the father of Jacob, and Jacob the father of Judah and his brothers,

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 1:15 - and Eliud the father of Eleazar, and Eleazar the father of Matthan, and Matthan the father of Jacob,

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 1:16

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 1:16 - and Jacob the father of Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom Jesus was born, who is called Christ.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 8:11 - I tell you, many will come from east and west and recline at table with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven,

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 22:32 - ‘I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’? He is not God of the dead, but of the living.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 12:26 - And as for the dead being raised, have you not read in the book of Moses, in the passage about the bush, how God spoke to him, saying, ‘I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’?

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 1:33 - and he will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and of his kingdom there will be no end.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 3:34 - the son of Jacob, the son of Isaac, the son of Abraham, the son of Terah, the son of Nahor,

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 13:28 - In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God but you yourselves cast out.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 20:37 - But that the dead are raised, even Moses showed, in the passage about the bush, where he calls the Lord the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 4:5 - So he came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the field that Jacob had given to his son Joseph.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 4:6 - Jacob’s well was there; so Jesus, wearied as he was from his journey, was sitting beside the well. It was about the sixth hour.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 4:12 - Are you greater than our father Jacob? He gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and his livestock.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 3:13 - The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, the God of our fathers, glorified his servant[fn] Jesus, whom you delivered over and denied in the presence of Pilate, when he had decided to release him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 7:8 - And he gave him the covenant of circumcision. And so Abraham became the father of Isaac, and circumcised him on the eighth day, and Isaac became the father of Jacob, and Jacob of the twelve patriarchs.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 7:12 - But when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent out our fathers on their first visit.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 7:14 - And Joseph sent and summoned Jacob his father and all his kindred, seventy-five persons in all.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 7:15 - And Jacob went down into Egypt, and he died, he and our fathers,

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 7:32 - ‘I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham and of Isaac and of Jacob.’ And Moses trembled and did not dare to look.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 7:46 - who found favor in the sight of God and asked to find a dwelling place for the God of Jacob.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 9:13 - As it is written, “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:26 - And in this way all Israel will be saved, as it is written,
“The Deliverer will come from Zion,
he will banish ungodliness from Jacob”;

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 11:9

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 11:9 - By faith he went to live in the land of promise, as in a foreign land, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, heirs with him of the same promise.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 11:20 - By faith Isaac invoked future blessings on Jacob and Esau.

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 11:21

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 11:21 - By faith Jacob, when dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph, bowing in worship over the head of his staff.
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