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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.
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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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Now it happened when Rachel had borne Joseph, that Jacob H3290 said to Laban, “Send me away, that I may go to my own place and to my own land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:31 - So he said, “What shall I give you?” And Jacob H3290 said, “You shall not give me anything. If you will do this one thing for me, I will again pasture and keep your flock:

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:36 - And he put a distance of three days’ journey between himself and Jacob H3290, and Jacob H3290 was pasturing the rest of Laban’s flocks.

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Then Jacob H3290 [fn]took fresh rods of poplar and almond and plane trees, and he peeled white stripes in them, exposing the white which was [fn]in the rods.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:40 - And Jacob H3290 separated the lambs, and he [fn]made the flocks face toward the striped and all the black in the flock of Laban; and he set his own herds apart and did not set them with Laban’s flock.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:41 - Now it would be that, whenever the [fn]stronger of the flock [fn]were mating, Jacob H3290 would place the rods in the sight of the flock in the trough, so that they might [fn]mate by the rods;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:42 - but when the flock was feeble, he did not put them in; so the feebler were Laban’s and the [fn]stronger Jacob’s H3290.

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Then [fn]Jacob heard the words of Laban’s sons, saying, “Jacob H3290 has taken away all that belonged to our father, and from what belonged to our father he has made all this [fn]wealth.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:2 - And Jacob H3290 saw the face of Laban, and behold, it was not friendly toward him as formerly.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:3 - Then Yahweh said to Jacob H3290, “Return to the land of your fathers and to your kin, and I will be with you.”

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:11 - “Then the angel of God said to me in the dream, ‘Jacob H3290,’ and I said, ‘Here I am.’

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Then Jacob H3290 arose and put his children and his wives upon camels;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:20 - And Jacob H3290 [fn]deceived Laban the Aramean by not telling him that he was fleeing.

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Then it was told to Laban on the third day that Jacob H3290 had fled;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:24 - And God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream of the night and said to him, “[fn]Beware lest you speak to Jacob H3290 either good or bad.”

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So Laban caught up with Jacob H3290. Now Jacob H3290 had pitched his tent in the hill country, and Laban with his [fn]relatives camped in the hill country of Gilead.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:26 - Then Laban said to Jacob H3290, “What have you done [fn]by deceiving me and carrying away my daughters like captives of the sword?

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:29 - “It is in my hand to do evil against you, but the God of your father spoke to me last night, saying, ‘[fn]Beware of speaking either good or evil to Jacob H3290.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:31 - Then Jacob H3290 answered and said to Laban, “Because I was afraid, because I said, ‘Lest you take your daughters from me by force.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:32 - “The one with whom you find your gods shall not live; in the presence of our [fn]relatives recognize what is yours [fn]among my belongings and take it for yourself.” But Jacob H3290 did not know that Rachel had stolen them.

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So Laban went into Jacob’s H3290 tent and into Leah’s tent and into the tent of the two maidservants, but he did not find them. Then he went out of Leah’s tent and entered Rachel’s tent.

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Then Jacob H3290 became angry and contended with Laban; and Jacob H3290 answered and said to Laban, “What is my transgression? What is my sin that you have hotly pursued me?

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Then Laban answered and said to Jacob H3290, “The daughters are my daughters, and the children are my children, and the flocks are my flocks, and all that you see is mine. But what can I do this day to these daughters of mine or to their children whom they have borne?

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:45 - Then Jacob H3290 took a stone and raised it up as a pillar.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:46 - And Jacob H3290 said to his [fn]relatives, “Gather stones.” So they took stones and made a heap, and they ate there by the heap.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:47 - And Laban called it [fn]Jegar-sahadutha, but Jacob H3290 called it [fn]Galeed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:51 - And Laban said to Jacob H3290, “Behold this heap and behold the pillar which I have set between [fn]you and me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:53 - “The God of Abraham and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us.” So Jacob H3290 swore by the dread of his father Isaac.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:54 - Then Jacob H3290 offered a sacrifice on the mountain and called his [fn]relatives to eat a [fn]meal; and they ate [fn]the meal and spent the night on the mountain.

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Now Jacob H3290 went on his way, and the angels of God met him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:2 - Then Jacob H3290 said when he saw them, “This is God’s [fn]camp.” So he named that place [fn]Mahanaim.

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Then Jacob H3290 sent messengers before him to his brother Esau in the land of Seir, the [fn]country of Edom.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:4 - He also commanded them saying, “Thus you shall say to my lord, to Esau: ‘Thus says your servant Jacob H3290, “I have sojourned with Laban and have been delayed until now;

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Then the messengers returned to Jacob H3290, saying, “We came to your brother, to Esau, and furthermore he is coming to meet you, and four hundred men are with him.”

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

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And Jacob H3290 said, “O God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac, O Yahweh, who said to me, ‘Return to your land and to your kin, and I will [fn]prosper you,’

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:18 - then you shall say, ‘These belong to your servant Jacob H3290; it is a present sent to my lord, to Esau. And behold, he also is behind us.’”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:20 - and you shall say, ‘Behold, your servant Jacob H3290 also is behind us.’” For he said, “I will appease his face with the present that goes before me. Then afterward I will see his face; perhaps he will lift up my face.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:24 - Then Jacob H3290 was left alone, and a man wrestled with him until the [fn]breaking of dawn.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:25 - And he saw that he had not prevailed against him, so he touched the socket of his thigh; and so the socket of Jacob’s H3290 thigh was dislocated while he wrestled with him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:27 - So he said to him, “What is your name?” And he said, “Jacob H3290.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:28 - Then He said, “Your name shall no longer be Jacob H3290, but [fn]Israel; for you have striven with God and with men and have prevailed.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:29 - Then Jacob H3290 asked him and said, “Please tell me your name.” But he said, “Why is it that you ask my name?” And he blessed him there.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:30 - So Jacob H3290 named the place [fn]Peniel, for he said, “I have seen God face to face, yet my [fn]life has been delivered.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:32 - Therefore, to this day the sons of Israel do not eat the sinew of the hip which is on the socket of the thigh because he touched the socket of Jacob’s H3290 thigh in the sinew of the hip.

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Then Jacob H3290 lifted up his eyes and saw, and behold, Esau was coming, and four hundred men with him. So he divided the children [fn]among Leah and Rachel and the two servant-women.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:10 - And Jacob H3290 said, “No, please, if now I have found favor in your sight, then take my present from my hand, [fn]for I see your face as one sees the face of God, and you have received me favorably.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:17 - But Jacob H3290 journeyed to [fn]Succoth and built for himself a house and made booths for his livestock; therefore the place is named Succoth.

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Now Jacob H3290 came safely to the city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Paddan-aram, and he camped before the city.


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