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Lexicon :: Strong's G2384 - iakōb

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Ἰακώβ
Transliteration
iakōb (Key)
Pronunciation
ee-ak-obe'
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Part of Speech
proper masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Of Hebrew origin יַעֲקֹב (H3290)
mGNT
27x in 2 unique form(s) TR
27x in 2 unique form(s) LXX
370x in 1 unique form(s)
Dictionary Aids

TDNT Reference: *,344

Strong’s Definitions

Ἰακώβ Iakṓb, ee-ak-obe'; of Hebrew origin (H3290); Jacob (i.e. Ja`akob), the progenitor of the Israelites:—also an Israelite:—Jacob.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 27x

The KJV translates Strong's G2384 in the following manner: Jacob (27x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 27x
The KJV translates Strong's G2384 in the following manner: Jacob (27x).

  1. Jacob = "heel-catcher or supplanter"

    1. was the second son of Isaac

    2. the father of Joseph, the husband of Mary

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
Ἰακώβ Iakṓb, ee-ak-obe'; of Hebrew origin (H3290); Jacob (i.e. Ja`akob), the progenitor of the Israelites:—also an Israelite:—Jacob.
STRONGS G2384:
Ἰακώβ, ὁ, (יַעֲקֹב [i. e. heel-catcher, supplanter]), Jacob;
1. the second of Isaac's sons: Matthew 1:2; Matthew 8:11; John 4:5; Acts 7:8; Romans 9:13, etc. Hebraistically equivalent to the descendants of Jacob: Romans 11:26, (Numbers 23:7; Isaiah 41:8; [Hebrew text] Jeremiah 33:26; Sir. 23:12; 1 Macc. 3:7, and often).
2. the father of Joseph, the husband of Mary the mother of the Saviour: Matthew 1:15f.
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Numbers
23:7
Isaiah
41:8
Jeremiah
33:26
Matthew
1:2; 1:15; 8:11
John
4:5
Acts
7:8
Romans
9:13; 11:26

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G2384 matches the Greek Ἰακώβ (iakōb),
which occurs 370 times in 337 verses in the LXX Greek.

Page 1 / 7 (Gen 25:26–Gen 30:7)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:26 - Afterward his brother came out with his hand holding Esau’s heel, so his name was called Jacob.[fn] Isaac was sixty years old when she bore them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 25:27

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:27 - When the boys grew up, Esau was a skillful hunter, a man of the field, while Jacob was a quiet man, dwelling in tents.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 25:28

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 25:29

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:29 - Once when Jacob was cooking stew, Esau came in from the field, and he was exhausted.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 25:30

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:30 - And Esau said to Jacob, “Let me eat some of that red stew, for I am exhausted!” (Therefore his name was called Edom.[fn])

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:31 - Jacob said, “Sell me your birthright now.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:33 - Jacob said, “Swear to me now.” So he swore to him and sold his birthright to Jacob.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 25:34

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:34 - Then Jacob gave Esau bread and lentil stew, and he ate and drank and rose and went his way. Thus Esau despised his birthright.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 27:6

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:6 - Rebekah said to her son Jacob, “I heard your father speak to your brother Esau,

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 27:11

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 27:15

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:15 - Then Rebekah took the best garments of Esau her older son, which were with her in the house, and put them on Jacob her younger son.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:17 - And she put the delicious food 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 - Jacob said to his father, “I am Esau your firstborn. I have done as you told me; now sit up and eat of my game, that your soul may bless me.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 27:21

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:21 - Then Isaac said to Jacob, “Please come near, that I may feel you, my son, to know whether you are really my son Esau or not.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 27:22

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:22 - So Jacob went near to Isaac his father, who felt him and said, “The voice is Jacob’s voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 27:30

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:30 - As soon as Isaac had finished blessing Jacob, when Jacob had scarcely gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, Esau his brother came in from his hunting.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 27:36

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:36 - Esau said, “Is he not rightly named Jacob?[fn] For he has cheated me these two times. He took away my birthright, and behold, now he has taken away my blessing.” Then he said, “Have you not reserved a blessing for me?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 27:41

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:41 - Now Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father had blessed him, and Esau said to himself, “The days of mourning for my father are approaching; then I will kill my brother Jacob.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:42 - But the words of Esau her older son were told to Rebekah. So she sent and called Jacob her younger son and said to him, “Behold, your brother Esau comforts himself about you by planning to kill you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 27:46

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:46 - Then Rebekah said to Isaac, “I loathe my life because of the Hittite women.[fn] If Jacob marries one of the Hittite women like these, one of the women of the land, what good will my life be to me?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 28:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:1 - Then Isaac called Jacob and blessed him and directed him, “You must not take a wife from the Canaanite women.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 28:5

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 28:6

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:6 - Now Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Paddan-aram to take a wife from there, and that as he blessed him he directed him, “You must not take a wife from the Canaanite women,”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 28:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:7 - and that Jacob had obeyed his father and his mother and gone to Paddan-aram.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 28:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:10 - Jacob left Beersheba and went toward Haran.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:16 - Then Jacob awoke from his sleep and said, “Surely the LORD is in this place, and I did not know it.”

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:19 - He called the name of that place Bethel,[fn] but the name of the city was Luz at the first.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:20 - Then Jacob made 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 clothing to wear,

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:4 - Jacob said to them, “My brothers, where do you come from?” They said, “We are from Haran.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:7 - He said, “Behold, it is still high day; it is not time for the livestock to be gathered together. Water the sheep and go, pasture them.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:10 - Now as soon as Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban his mother’s brother, and the sheep of Laban his mother’s brother, Jacob came 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 - Then Jacob kissed Rachel and wept aloud.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:13 - As soon as Laban heard the news about Jacob, his sister’s son, he ran to meet him and embraced him and kissed him and brought him to his house. Jacob told Laban all these things,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:15 - Then Laban said to Jacob, “Because you are my kinsman, should you therefore serve me for nothing? Tell me, what shall your wages be?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:18 - Jacob loved Rachel. And he said, “I will serve you seven years for your younger daughter Rachel.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:20

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:21 - Then Jacob said to Laban, “Give me my wife that I may go in to her, for my time is completed.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:23 - But in the evening he took his daughter Leah and brought her to Jacob, and he went in to her.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:25 - And in the morning, behold, it was Leah! And Jacob said to Laban, “What is this you have done to me? Did I not serve with you for Rachel? Why then have you deceived me?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:28

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:28 - Jacob did so, and completed her week. Then Laban gave him his daughter Rachel to be his wife.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:32

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:32 - And Leah conceived and bore a son, and she called his name Reuben,[fn] for she said, “Because the LORD has looked upon my affliction; for now my husband will love me.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:33 - She conceived again and bore a son, and said, “Because the LORD has heard that I am hated, he has given me this son also.” And she called his name Simeon.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:1 - When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, she envied her sister. She said to Jacob, “Give me children, or I shall die!”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:2 - Jacob’s anger was kindled against Rachel, and he said, “Am I in the place of God, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:3 - Then she said, “Here is my servant Bilhah; go in to her, so that she may give birth on my behalf,[fn] that even I may have children[fn] through her.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:4 - So she gave him her servant Bilhah as a wife, and Jacob went in to her.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:5

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:7 - Rachel’s servant Bilhah conceived again and bore Jacob a second son.

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