Lexicon :: Strong's H3290 - yaʿăqōḇ

Laban asked, “What should I give you? ”

And Jacob said, “You don’t need to give me anything. If you do this one thing for me, I will continue to shepherd and keep your flock.

He put a three-day journey between himself and Jacob. Jacob, meanwhile, was shepherding the rest of Laban’s flock.

Jacob then took branches of fresh poplar, almond, and plane wood, and peeled the bark, exposing white stripes on the branches.

Jacob separated the lambs and made the flocks face the streaked sheep and the completely dark sheep in Laban’s flocks. Then he set his own stock apart and didn’t put them with Laban’s sheep.

Whenever the stronger of the flock were breeding, Jacob placed the branches in the troughs, in full view of the flocks, and they would breed in front of the branches.

As for the weaklings of the flocks, he did not put out the branches. So it turned out that the weak sheep belonged to Laban and the stronger ones to Jacob.

And Jacob saw from Laban’s face that his attitude toward him was not the same as before.

The LORD said to him, “Go back to the land of your ancestors and to your family, and I will be with you.”

Jacob had Rachel and Leah called to the field where his flocks were.

“In that dream the angel of God said to me, ‘Jacob! ’ and I said, ‘Here I am.’

So Jacob got up and put his children and wives on the camels.

And Jacob deceived[fn] Laban the Aramean, not telling him that he was fleeing.

On the third day Laban was told that Jacob had fled.

But God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream at night. “Watch yourself! ” God warned him. “Don’t say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.”

When Laban overtook Jacob, Jacob had pitched his tent in the hill country, and Laban and his relatives also pitched their tents in the hill country of Gilead.

Laban said to Jacob, “What have you done? You have deceived me and taken my daughters away like prisoners of war!

“I could do you great harm, but last night the God of your father said to me, ‘Watch yourself! Don’t say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.’

Jacob answered, “I was afraid, for I thought you would take your daughters from me by force.

“If you find your gods with anyone here, he will not live! Before our relatives, point out anything that is yours and take it.” Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen the idols.

So Laban went into Jacob’s tent, Leah’s tent, and the tents of the two concubines,[fn] but he found nothing. When he left Leah’s tent, he went into Rachel’s tent.

Then Jacob became incensed and brought charges against Laban. “What is my crime? ” he said to Laban. “What is my sin, that you have pursued me?

Then Laban answered Jacob, “The daughters are my daughters; the children, my children; and the flocks, my flocks! Everything you see is mine! But what can I do today for these daughters of mine or for the children they have borne?

So Jacob picked out a stone and set it up as a marker.

Then Jacob said to his relatives, “Gather stones.” And they took stones and made a mound, then ate there by the mound.

Laban named the mound Jegar-sahadutha, but Jacob named it Galeed.[fn]

Laban also said to Jacob, “Look at this mound and the marker I have set up between you and me.

“The God of Abraham, and the gods of Nahor ​— ​the gods of their father[fn] ​— ​will judge between us.” And Jacob swore by the Fear of his father Isaac.

Then Jacob offered a sacrifice on the mountain and invited his relatives to eat a meal. So they ate a meal and spent the night on the mountain.

When he saw them, Jacob said, “This is God’s camp.” So he called that place Mahanaim.[fn]

Jacob sent messengers ahead of him to his brother Esau in the land of Seir, the territory of Edom.

He commanded them, “You are to say to my lord Esau, ‘This is what your servant Jacob says. I have been staying with Laban and have been delayed until now.

When the messengers returned to Jacob, they said, “We went to your brother Esau; he is coming to meet you ​— ​and he has four hundred men with him.”

Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed; he divided the people with him into two camps, along with the flocks, herds, and camels.

Then Jacob said, “God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac, the LORD who said to me, ‘Go back to your land and to your family, and I will cause you to prosper,’

“then tell him, ‘They belong to your servant Jacob. They are a gift sent to my lord Esau. And look, he is behind us.’ ”

“You are also to say, ‘Look, your servant Jacob is right behind us.’ ” For he thought, “I want to appease Esau with the gift that is going ahead of me. After that, I can face him, and perhaps he will forgive me.”

Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him until daybreak.

When the man saw that he could not defeat him, he struck Jacob’s hip socket as they wrestled and dislocated his hip.

“What is your name? ” the man asked.

“Jacob,” he replied.

“Your name will no longer be Jacob,” he said. “It will be Israel[fn] because you have struggled with God and with men and have prevailed.”

Then Jacob asked him, “Please tell me your name.”

But he answered, “Why do you ask my name? ” And he blessed him there.

Jacob then named the place Peniel,[fn] “For I have seen God face to face,” he said, “yet my life has been spared.”

That is why, still today, the Israelites don’t eat the thigh muscle that is at the hip socket: because he struck Jacob’s hip socket at the thigh muscle.[fn]

But Jacob said, “No, please! If I have found favor with you, take this gift from me. For indeed, I have seen your face, and it is like seeing God’s face, since you have accepted me.

but Jacob went to Succoth. He built a house for himself and shelters for his livestock; that is why the place was called Succoth.[fn]

After Jacob came from Paddan-aram, he arrived safely at Shechem in the land of Canaan and camped in front of the city.