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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 1 / 7 (Gen 25:26–Gen 30:19)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:26 - And after that his brother was born, and his hand took hold on Esau's heel; and his name was called Jacob: and Isaac was sixty years old when she bore them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:27 - And the boys grew: and Esau was a skillful hunter, a man of the field; and Jacob was a plain man dwelling in tents.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:28 - And Isaac loved Esau, because he ate of his venison: but Rebekah loved Jacob.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:29 - And Jacob boiled pottage: and Esau came from the field, and he was faint.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 25:30

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:30 - And Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I pray thee, with that same red pottage; for I am faint: therefore was his name called Edom.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:31 - And Jacob said, Sell to me this day thy birth-right.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 25:33

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:33 - And Jacob said, Swear to me this day; and he swore to him: and he sold his birth-right to Jacob.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:34 - Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentiles; and he ate and drank, and rose and went his way: thus Esau despised his birth-right.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:6 - And Rebekah spoke to Jacob her son, saying, Behold, I heard thy father speak to Esau thy brother, saying,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:11 - And Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man:

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:15 - And Rebekah took goodly raiment of her eldest son Esau, which was with her in the house, and put it upon Jacob her younger son:

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 27:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:19 - And Jacob said to his father, I am Esau thy first-born; I have done according as thou badest me: arise, I pray thee, sit and eat of my venison, that thy soul may bless me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 27:21

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:21 - And Isaac said to Jacob, Come near, I pray thee, that I may feel thee, my son, whether thou art my very son Esau, or not.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:22 - And Jacob went near to Isaac his father; and he felt him, and said, The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:30 - And it came to pass, as soon as Isaac had made an end of blessing Jacob, and Jacob had yet scarcely 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 - And he said, Is he not rightly named Jacob? for he hath supplanted me twice: he took away my birth-right; and behold, now he hath taken away my blessing. And he said, Hast thou not reserved a blessing for me?

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:41 - And Esau hated Jacob, because of the blessing with which his father blessed him: and Esau said in his heart, The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then will I slay my brother Jacob.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 27:42

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:42 - And these words of Esau her elder son were told to Rebekah: and she sent and called Jacob her younger son, and said to him, Behold, thy brother Esau, as concerning thee, doth comfort himself, purposing to kill thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:46 - And Rebekah said to Isaac, I am weary of my life, because of the daughters of Heth: if Jacob shall take a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these who are of the daughters of the land, what good will my life do me?

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:1 - And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and charged him, and said to him, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 28:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:5 - And Isaac sent away Jacob: and he went to Padan-aram, to Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob's and Esau's mother.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:6 - When Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob, and sent him away to Padan-aram, to take him a wife from thence; and that as he blessed him, he gave him a charge, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:7 - And that Jacob obeyed his father, and his mother, and was gone to Padan-aram;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:10 - And Jacob went out from Beer-sheba, and went towards Haran.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:16 - And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said, Surely the LORD is in this place; and I knew it not.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 28:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:18 - And Jacob rose early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put for his pillows, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil on the top of it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:20 - And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:1 - Then Jacob went on his journey, and came into the land of the people of the east.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:4 - And Jacob said to them, My brethren, whence are ye? And they said, We are from Haran.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:10 - And it came to pass, when Jacob saw Rachel, the daughter of Laban his mother's brother, and the sheep of Laban his mother's brother; that Jacob went near, and rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the flock of Laban his mother's brother.

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:12 - And Jacob told Rachel that he was her father's brother, and that he was Rebekah's son; and she ran and told her father.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:13 - And it came to pass when Laban heard the tidings of Jacob his sister's son, that he ran to meet him, and embraced him, and kissed him, and brought him to his house. And he told Laban all these things.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:15 - And Laban said to Jacob, Because thou art my brother, shouldest thou therefore serve me for naught? tell me, what shall thy wages be?

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:18 - And Jacob loved Rachel; and said, I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:20 - And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed to him but a few days, for the love he had to her.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:21 - And 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 29:28 - And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he gave him Rachel, his daughter, for a wife also.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:1 - And when Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister; and said to Jacob, Give me children, or else I die.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:2 - And Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel; and he said, Am I in God's stead, who hath withheld from thee the fruit of the womb?

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:4 - And she gave him Bilhah, her handmaid, for a wife: and Jacob went in to her.

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:7 - And Bilhah, Rachel's maid, conceived again, and bore Jacob a second son.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:9 - When Leah saw that she had left bearing, she took Zilpah, her maid, and gave her Jacob for a wife.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:10 - And Zilpah, Leah's maid, bore Jacob a son.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:12 - And Zilpah, Leah's maid, bore Jacob a second son.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:16

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:16 - And Jacob came from the field in the evening, and Leah went out to meet him, and said, Thou must come in to me; for surely I have hired thee with my son's mandrakes. And he lay with her that night.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:17 - And God hearkened to Leah, and she conceived, and bore Jacob the fifth son.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:19 - And Leah conceived again, and bore Jacob the sixth son.

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