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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)
Dictionary Aids

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 370 times in 337 verses in the LXX Greek.

Page 1 / 7 (Gen 25:26–Gen 30:7)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:26 - Afterward his brother came forth with his hand holding on to Esau’s heel, so his name was called [fn]Jacob; and Isaac was sixty years old when she gave birth to them.

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And the boys grew up; Esau became a skillful hunter, a man of the field, but Jacob was a [fn]peaceful man, [fn]living in tents.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:28 - Isaac loved Esau because [fn]he had an appetite for hunted game, but Rebekah loved Jacob.

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And Jacob had cooked stew. And Esau came in from the field, and he was [fn]famished.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:30 - Then Esau said to Jacob, “Please give me a swallow from the red stuff—[fn]this red stuff, for I am [fn]famished.” Therefore his name was called [fn]Edom.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:31 - But Jacob said, “[fn]First sell me your birthright.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:33 - And Jacob said, “[fn]First swear to me”; so he swore to him and sold his birthright to Jacob.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:34 - So Jacob gave Esau bread and lentil stew; and he ate and drank and rose and went away. Thus Esau despised his birthright.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:6 - But Rebekah spoke to her son Jacob, saying, “Behold, I heard your father speaking to your brother Esau, saying,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:11 - Then Jacob [fn]answered his mother Rebekah, “Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:15 - Then Rebekah took the [fn]best garments of Esau her elder son, which were with her in the house, and she put them on Jacob her younger son.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:17 - She also gave the savory dish and the bread, which she had prepared into the hand of her son Jacob.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:19 - And Jacob said to his father, “I am Esau your firstborn; I have done as you told me. Rise up, please, sit and eat of my game, that your soul may bless me.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:21 - Then Isaac said to Jacob, “Please come near, that I may feel you, my son, whether you are really my son Esau or not.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:22 - So Jacob came near to Isaac his father, and he felt him and said, “The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau.”

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Now it happened that as soon as Isaac had finished blessing Jacob, and Jacob had hardly gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came in from his hunting.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:36 - Then he said, “[fn]Is he not rightly named Jacob, for he has supplanted me these two times? He took away my birthright, and behold, now he has taken away my blessing.” And he said, “Have you not reserved a blessing for me?”

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So Esau bore a grudge against Jacob because of the blessing with which his father had blessed him; and Esau said in his heart, “The days of mourning for my father are near; then I will kill my brother Jacob.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:42 - Then the words of her elder son Esau were told to Rebekah. So she sent and called her younger son Jacob and said to him, “Behold, your brother Esau is consoling himself concerning you by planning to kill you.

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Then Rebekah said to Isaac, “I am tired of [fn]living because of the daughters of Heth; if Jacob takes a wife from the daughters of Heth, like these, from the daughters of the land, what good will my life be to me?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:1 -

So Isaac called Jacob and blessed him and commanded him and said to him, “You shall not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:5 - Then Isaac sent Jacob away, and he went to Paddan-aram to Laban, son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, the mother of Jacob and Esau.

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And Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Paddan-aram to take for himself a wife from there, and that when he blessed him he commanded him, saying, “You shall not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan,”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:7 - and that Jacob had listened to his father and his mother and had gone to Paddan-aram.

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Then Jacob departed from Beersheba and went toward Haran.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:16 - Then Jacob awoke from his sleep and said, “Surely Yahweh is in this place, and I did not know it.”

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So Jacob rose early in the morning and took the stone that he had put [fn]under his head and set it up as a pillar and poured oil on its top.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:19 - And he called the name of that place [fn]Bethel; however, [fn]previously the name of the city had been Luz.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:20 - Then Jacob made a vow, saying, “If God will be with me and will keep me on this journey on which I am going, and will give me [fn]food to eat and garments to wear,

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Then Jacob [fn]took up his journey and came to the land of the sons of the east.

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And Jacob said to them, “My brothers, where are you from?” And they said, “We are from Haran.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:7 - And he said, “Behold, it is still high day; it is not time for the livestock to be gathered. Give water to the sheep to drink, and go, pasture them.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:10 - Now it happened, when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban his mother’s brother and the sheep of Laban his mother’s brother, Jacob came near and rolled the stone from the mouth of the well and gave water to the flock of Laban his mother’s brother to drink.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:11 - Then Jacob kissed Rachel and lifted his voice and wept.

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So it happened that when Laban heard the report of Jacob his sister’s son, he ran to meet him, and he embraced him and kissed him and brought him to his house. Then he recounted to Laban all these things.

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Then Laban said to Jacob, “Because you are my [fn]relative, should you therefore serve me for nothing? Tell me, what shall your wages be?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:18 - Now Jacob loved Rachel, so he said, “I will serve you seven years for your younger daughter Rachel.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:20 - So Jacob served seven years for Rachel, and they were in his sight but a few days because of his love for her.

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Then Jacob said to Laban, “Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in to her.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:23 - Now it happened in the evening that he took his daughter Leah and brought her to him; and Jacob went in to her.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:25 - Now it happened in the morning that, behold, it was Leah! And he said to Laban, “What is this you have done to me? Was it not for Rachel that I served with you? Why then have you deceived me?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:28 - And Jacob did so and fulfilled her week, and he gave him his daughter Rachel as his wife.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:32 - So Leah conceived and bore a son and named him [fn]Reuben, for she said, “Because Yahweh has [fn]seen my affliction; surely now my husband will love me.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:33 - Then she conceived again and bore a son and said, “Because Yahweh has [fn]heard that I am [fn]unloved, He has therefore given me this son also.” So she named him Simeon.

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Then Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, so [fn]she became jealous of her sister; and she said to Jacob, “Give me children, or else I die.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:2 - Then Jacob’s anger burned against Rachel, and he said, “Am I in the place of God, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:3 - And she said, “Here is my maidservant Bilhah, go in to her that she may bear on my knees, that [fn]through her I too may obtain children.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:4 - So she gave him her servant-woman Bilhah as a wife, and Jacob went in to her.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:5 - And Bilhah conceived and bore Jacob a son.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:7 - And Rachel’s servant-woman Bilhah conceived again and bore Jacob a second son.

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