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Lexicon :: Strong's H3290 - yaʿăqōḇ

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יַעֲקֹב
Transliteration
yaʿăqōḇ
Pronunciation
yah-ak-obe'
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Part of Speech
proper masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Strong’s Definitions

יַעֲקֹב Yaʻăqôb, yah-ak-obe'; from H6117; heel-catcher (i.e. supplanter); Jaakob, the Israelitish patriarch:—Jacob.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 349x

The KJV translates Strong's H3290 in the following manner: Jacob (349x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 349x
The KJV translates Strong's H3290 in the following manner: Jacob (349x).

  1. Jacob = "heel holder" or "supplanter"

    1. son of Isaac, grandson of Abraham, and father of the 12 patriarchs of the tribes of Israel

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
יַעֲקֹב Yaʻăqôb, yah-ak-obe'; from H6117; heel-catcher (i.e. supplanter); Jaakob, the Israelitish patriarch:—Jacob.
STRONGS H3290: Abbreviations
יַּעֲקב 344, יַעֲקוֺב 5 proper name, masculine and of a people Jacob, Ιακωβ, son of Isaac and Rebekah, father of tribes of Israel (explanation from עָקֵב heel Genesis 25:26; Hosea 12:4; i.e. supplanter; compare with עָקַב overreach Genesis 27:36; one closely following according to LagBN 127; connection with Palestinian city (?) called in Egyptian Y‘kb’ara (i.e. יַעֲקֹבאֵֿל) is obscure; compare MeyZAW vi.1 ff. WMMAs. u. Eur. 162 ff. JenZA x(1895-6), 347 ff.; see also Babylonian proper name, masculine Ya‘ḳubilu, Pinches in HomAHT 61, 96, 112; hence OT יַעֲקֹב perhaps originally יעקבקל or the like. compare Palmyrene proper name בלעקב, עתעקב); — יַעֲקוֺב Jeremiah 30:18 + 3 times Jeremiah Leviticus 26:42; יַעֲקֹב + 215 times Hexateuch (chiefly J E; + 180 times Genesis, once Leviticus, etc.), + 34 times Psalms, + 42 times Isaiah (27 times Isaiah 40-66), etc.; —
1. as proper name, masculine Genesis 25:26 + 205 times (+ אַבְרָהָם, יִצְחָק + 19 times); also בֵּית יַע׳ of people (see בַּיִת 5d (γ)), בְּנֵי יַע׳ (see בֵּן 1 j (β)), זֶרַע יַע׳ (see זֶרַע 4 f), עֵין יַע׳ (see עַיִן), etc.
2. as proper name, of a people (approximately + 100 times; poetry and prophets) Numbers 24:5, 19; Deuteronomy 32:9; Psalm 44:5; Isaiah 10:21; Isaiah 17:4; Jeremiah 10:25; Jeremiah 30:7 +; || יִשְׂרָאֵל Numbers 23:7; Deuteronomy 33:10; Isaiah 14:1; Psalm 14:7 + approximately + 35 times; specifically of Northern Israel Amos 7:2, 5; Hosea 12:13 (+ Hosea 10:11; Hosea 12:3 probably, see Now), Micah 1:5 (twice in verse); Isaiah 9:7; of Judah Micah 3:1, 8; Obadiah 10; Isaiah 65:9; Malachi 2:12 + others post-exilic; גְּאוֺן יַע׳ see גָּאוֺן; אֵל יַע׳ Psalm 146:5, אֱלוֺהַּ יַע׳ Psalm 114:7; אֱלֹהֵי יַע׳ 2 Samuel 23:1; Isaiah 2:3 = Micah 4:2 +9 times Psalms + Psalm 24:6 (יַע׳ א׳ for MT יַע׳ alone), so Greek Version of the LXX Syriac Version Vulgate Ew Ol Hup Bae We Che and others; read יַע׳ א׳ also probably 2 Samuel 23:2 (for יִשׂ׳ א׳, || צוּר יִשׂ׳) Vulgate HPS; קְדוֺשׁ יַע׳ Isaiah 29:23 (|| יִשׂ׳ א׳); מֶלֶךְ יַע׳ Isaiah 41:21 (|| יהוה). — On יַעֲקֹב see especially Dr 'Jacob' in HastingsDict. Bib. ii. 526 ff.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

25:26; 25:26; 27:36

Leviticus

26:42

Numbers

23:7; 24:5; 24:19

Deuteronomy

32:9; 33:10

2 Samuel

23:1; 23:2

Psalms

14:7; 24:6; 44:5; 114:7; 146:5

Isaiah

2:3; 9:7; 10:21; 14:1; 17:4; 29:23; 41:21; 65:9

Jeremiah

10:25; 30:7; 30:18

Hosea

10:11; 12:3; 12:4; 12:13

Amos

7:2; 7:5

Obadiah

1:10

Micah

1:5; 3:1; 3:8; 4:2

Malachi

2:12

H3290

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Strong's Number H3290 matches the Hebrew יַעֲקֹב (yaʿăqōḇ),
which occurs 349 times in 319 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 2 / 7 (Gen 30:25–Gen 33:18)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:25 - And it came to pass, when Rachel had born Joseph, that Jacob H3290 said unto Laban, Send me away, that I may go unto mine own place, and to my country.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:31 - And he said, What shall I give thee? And Jacob H3290 said, Thou shalt not give me any thing: if thou wilt do this thing for me, I will again feed and keep thy flock:

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:36 - And he set three days' journey betwixt himself and Jacob: H3290 and Jacob H3290 fed the rest of Laban's flocks.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:37 - And Jacob H3290 took him rods of green poplar, and of the hazel and chesnut tree; and pilled white strakes in them, and made the white appear which was in the rods.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:40 - And Jacob H3290 did separate the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the ringstraked, and all the brown in the flock of Laban; and he put his own flocks by themselves, and put them not unto Laban's cattle.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:41 - And it came to pass, whensoever the stronger cattle did conceive, that Jacob H3290 laid the rods before the eyes of the cattle in the gutters, that they might conceive among the rods.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:42 - But when the cattle were feeble, he put them not in: so the feebler were Laban's, and the stronger Jacob's. H3290

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:1 - And he heard the words of Laban's sons, saying, Jacob H3290 hath taken away all that was our father's; and of that which was our father's hath he gotten all this glory.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:2 - And Jacob H3290 beheld the countenance of Laban, and, behold, it was not toward him as before.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:3 - And the LORD said unto Jacob, H3290 Return unto the land of thy fathers, and to thy kindred; and I will be with thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:4 - And Jacob H3290 sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field unto his flock,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:11 - And the angel of God spake unto me in a dream, saying, Jacob: H3290 And I said, Here am I.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:17 - Then Jacob H3290 rose up, and set his sons and his wives upon camels;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:20 - And Jacob H3290 stole away unawares to Laban the Syrian, in that he told him not that he fled.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:22 - And it was told Laban on the third day that Jacob H3290 was fled.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:24 - And God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream by night, and said unto him, Take heed that thou speak not to Jacob H3290 either good or bad.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:25

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:25 - Then Laban overtook Jacob. H3290 Now Jacob H3290 had pitched his tent in the mount: and Laban with his brethren pitched in the mount of Gilead.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:26 - And Laban said to Jacob, H3290 What hast thou done, that thou hast stolen away unawares to me, and carried away my daughters, as captives taken with the sword?

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:29

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:29 - It is in the power of my hand to do you hurt: but the God of your father spake unto me yesternight, saying, Take thou heed that thou speak not to Jacob H3290 either good or bad.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:31 - And Jacob H3290 answered and said to Laban, Because I was afraid: for I said, Peradventure thou wouldest take by force thy daughters from me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:32

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:32 - With whomsoever thou findest thy gods, let him not live: before our brethren discern thou what is thine with me, and take it to thee. For Jacob H3290 knew not that Rachel had stolen them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:33

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:33 - And Laban went into Jacob's H3290 tent, and into Leah's tent, and into the two maidservants' tents; but he found them not. Then went he out of Leah's tent, and entered into Rachel's tent.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:36

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:36 - And Jacob H3290 was wroth, and chode with Laban: and Jacob H3290 answered and said to Laban, What is my trespass? what is my sin, that thou hast so hotly pursued after me?

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:43 - And Laban answered and said unto Jacob, H3290 These daughters are my daughters, and these children are my children, and these cattle are my cattle, and all that thou seest is mine: and what can I do this day unto these my daughters, or unto their children which they have born?

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:45 - And Jacob H3290 took a stone, and set it up for a pillar.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:46 - And Jacob H3290 said unto his brethren, Gather stones; and they took stones, and made an heap: and they did eat there upon the heap.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:47 - And Laban called it Jegarsahadutha: but Jacob H3290 called it Galeed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:51 - And Laban said to Jacob, H3290 Behold this heap, and behold this pillar, which I have cast betwixt me and thee;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:53 - The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge betwixt us. And Jacob H3290 sware by the fear of his father Isaac.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:54 - Then Jacob H3290 offered sacrifice upon the mount, and called his brethren to eat bread: and they did eat bread, and tarried all night in the mount.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:1 - And Jacob H3290 went on his way, and the angels of God met him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:2 - And when Jacob H3290 saw them, he said, This is God's host: and he called the name of that place Mahanaim.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:3 - And Jacob H3290 sent messengers before him to Esau his brother unto the land of Seir, the country of Edom.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:4 - And he commanded them, saying, Thus shall ye speak unto my lord Esau; Thy servant Jacob H3290 saith thus, I have sojourned with Laban, and stayed there until now:

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:6 - And the messengers returned to Jacob, H3290 saying, We came to thy brother Esau, and also he cometh to meet thee, and four hundred men with him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:7 - Then Jacob H3290 was greatly afraid and distressed: and he divided the people that was with him, and the flocks, and herds, and the camels, into two bands;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:9 - And Jacob H3290 said, O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, the LORD which saidst unto me, Return unto thy country, and to thy kindred, and I will deal well with thee:

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:18 - Then thou shalt say, They be thy servant Jacob's; H3290 it is a present sent unto my lord Esau: and, behold, also he is behind us.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:20 - And say ye moreover, Behold, thy servant Jacob H3290 is behind us. For he said, I will appease him with the present that goeth before me, and afterward I will see his face; peradventure he will accept of me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:24 - And Jacob H3290 was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:25 - And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob's H3290 thigh was out of joint, as he wrestled with him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:27 - And he said unto him, What is thy name? And he said, Jacob. H3290

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 32:28

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:28 - And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, H3290 but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:29 - And Jacob H3290 asked him, and said, Tell me, I pray thee, thy name. And he said, Wherefore is it that thou dost ask after my name? And he blessed him there.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 32:30

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:30 - And Jacob H3290 called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:32 - Therefore the children of Israel eat not of the sinew which shrank, which is upon the hollow of the thigh, unto this day: because he touched the hollow of Jacob's H3290 thigh in the sinew that shrank.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 33:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:1 - And Jacob H3290 lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, Esau came, and with him four hundred men. And he divided the children unto Leah, and unto Rachel, and unto the two handmaids.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 33:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:10 - And Jacob H3290 said, Nay, I pray thee, if now I have found grace in thy sight, then receive my present at my hand: for therefore I have seen thy face, as though I had seen the face of God, and thou wast pleased with me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 33:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:17 - And Jacob H3290 journeyed to Succoth, and built him an house, and made booths for his cattle: therefore the name of the place is called Succoth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 33:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:18 - And Jacob H3290 came to Shalem, a city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Padanaram; and pitched his tent before the city.

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