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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 afterwards hath his brother come out, and his hand is taking hold on Esau's heel, and one calleth his name Jacob; and Isaac is a son of sixty years in her bearing them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:27 - And the youths grew, and Esau is a man acquainted with hunting, a man of the field; and Jacob is a plain man, inhabiting tents;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:28 - and Isaac loveth Esau, for his hunting is in his mouth; and Rebekah is loving Jacob.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:29 - And Jacob boileth pottage, and Esau cometh in from the field, and he is weary;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:30 - and Esau saith unto Jacob, 'Let me eat, I pray thee, some of this red red thing, for I am weary;' therefore hath one called his name Edom Red;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:31 - and Jacob saith, 'Sell to-day thy birthright to me.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 25:33

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:33 - and Jacob saith, 'Swear to me to-day:' and he sweareth to him, and selleth his birthright to Jacob;

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 25:34

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:34 - and Jacob hath given to Esau bread and pottage of lentiles, and he eateth, and drinketh, and riseth, and goeth; and Esau despiseth the birthright.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:6 - and Rebekah hath spoken unto Jacob her son, saying, 'Lo, I have heard thy father speaking unto Esau thy brother, saying,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:11 - And Jacob saith unto Rebekah his mother, 'Lo, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I a smooth man,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:15 - and Rebekah taketh the desirable garments of Esau her elder son, which are with her in the house, and doth put on Jacob her younger son;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:17 - and she giveth the tasteful things, and the bread which she hath made, into the hand of Jacob her son.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 27:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:19 - And Jacob saith unto his father, 'I am Esau thy first-born; I have done as thou hast spoken unto me; rise, I pray thee, sit, and eat of my provision, so that thy soul doth bless me.'

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:21 - And Isaac saith unto Jacob, 'Come nigh, I pray thee, and I feel thee, my son, whether thou art he, my son Esau, or not.'

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:22 - And Jacob cometh nigh unto Isaac his father, and he feeleth him, and saith, 'The voice is the voice of Jacob, and the hands hands of Esau.'

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:30 - And it cometh to pass, as Isaac hath finished blessing Jacob, and Jacob is only just going out from the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother hath come in from his hunting;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:36 - And he saith, 'Is it because one called his name Jacob that he doth take me by the heel these two times? my birthright he hath taken; and lo, now, he hath taken my blessing;' he saith also, 'Hast thou not kept back a blessing for me?'

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 27:41

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:41 - And Esau hateth Jacob, because of the blessing with which his father blessed him, and Esau saith in his heart, 'The days of mourning for my father draw near, and I slay Jacob my brother.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 27:42

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:42 - And the words of Esau her elder son are declared to Rebekah, and she sendeth and calleth for Jacob her younger son, and saith unto him, 'Lo, Esau thy brother is comforting himself in regard to thee -- to slay thee;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:46 - And Rebekah saith unto Isaac, 'I have been disgusted with my life because of the presence of the daughters of Heth; if Jacob take a wife of the daughters of Heth, like these -- from the daughters of the land -- why do I live?'

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:1 - And Isaac calleth unto Jacob, and blesseth him, and commandeth him, and saith to him, 'Thou dost not take a wife of the daughters of Caanan;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:5 - And Isaac sendeth away Jacob, and he goeth to Padan-Aram, unto Laban, son of Bethuel the Aramaean, brother of Rebekah, mother of Jacob and Esau.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:6 - And Esau seeth that Isaac hath blessed Jacob, and hath sent him to Padan-Aram to take to himself from thence a wife -- in his blessing him that he layeth a charge upon him, saying, Thou dost not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan --

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:7 - that Jacob hearkeneth unto his father and unto his mother, and goeth to Padan-Aram --

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:10 - And Jacob goeth out from Beer-Sheba, and goeth toward Haran,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:16 - And Jacob awaketh out of his sleep, and saith, 'Surely Jehovah is in this place, and I knew not;'

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:18 - And Jacob riseth early in the morning, and taketh the stone which he hath made his pillows, and maketh it a standing pillar, and poureth oil upon its top,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:20 - And Jacob voweth a vow, saying, 'Seeing God is with me, and hath kept me in this way which I am going, and hath given to me bread to eat, and a garment to put on --

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:1 - And Jacob lifteth up his feet, and goeth towards the land of the sons of the east;

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:10 - and it cometh to pass when Jacob hath seen Rachel, daughter of Laban his mother's brother, and the flock of Laban his mother's brother, that Jacob cometh nigh and rolleth the stone from off the mouth of the well, and watereth the flock of Laban his mother's brother.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:11 - And Jacob kisseth Rachel, and lifteth up his voice, and weepeth,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:12 - and Jacob declareth to Rachel that he is her father's brother, and that he is Rebekah's son, and she runneth and declareth to her father.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:13 - And it cometh to pass, when Laban heareth the report of Jacob his sister's son, that he runneth to meet him, and embraceth him, and kisseth him, and bringeth him in unto his house; and he recounteth to Laban all these things,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:15 - And Laban saith to Jacob, 'Is it because thou art my brother that thou hast served me for nought? declare to me what is thy hire.'

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:18 - And Jacob loveth Rachel, and saith, 'I serve thee seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter:'

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:20 - and Jacob serveth for Rachel seven years; and they are in his eyes as some days, because of his loving her.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:21 - And Jacob saith unto Laban, 'Give up my wife, for my days have been fulfilled, and I go in unto her;'

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:28 - And Jacob doth so, and fulfilleth the week of this one, and he giveth to him Rachel his daughter, to him for a wife;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:1 - And Rachel seeth that she hath not borne to Jacob, and Rachel is envious of her sister, and saith unto Jacob, 'Give me sons, and if there is none -- I die.'

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:4 - and she giveth to him Bilhah her maid-servant for a wife, and Jacob goeth in unto her;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:5 - and Bilhah conceiveth, and beareth to Jacob a son,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:7 - And Bilhah, Rachel's maid-servant, conceiveth again, and beareth a second son to Jacob,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:9 - And Leah seeth that she hath ceased from bearing, and she taketh Zilpah her maid-servant, and giveth her to Jacob for a wife;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:10 - and Zilpah, Leah's maid-servant, beareth to Jacob a son,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:12 - And Zilpah, Leah's maid-servant, beareth a second son to Jacob,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:16 - And Jacob cometh in from the field at evening; and Leah goeth to meet him, and saith, 'Unto me dost thou come in, for hiring I have hired thee with my son's love-apples;' and he lieth with her during that night.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:17 - And God hearkeneth unto Leah, and she conceiveth, and beareth to Jacob a son, a fifth,

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:19 - And conceive again doth Leah, and she beareth a sixth son to Jacob,

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