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Lexicon :: Strong's H2999 - yabōq

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יַבֹּק
Transliteration
yabōq
Pronunciation
yab-boke'
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Part of Speech
proper locative noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Probably from בָּקַק (H1238)
Strong’s Definitions

יַבֹּק Yabbôq, yab-boke'; probably from H1238; pouring forth; Jabbok, a river east of the Jordan:—Jabbok.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 7x

The KJV translates Strong's H2999 in the following manner: Jabbok (7x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 7x
The KJV translates Strong's H2999 in the following manner: Jabbok (7x).

  1. Jabbok = "emptying"

    1. a stream which intersects the mountain range of Gilead, and falls into the Jordan on the east about midway between the Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
יַבֹּק Yabbôq, yab-boke'; probably from H1238; pouring forth; Jabbok, a river east of the Jordan:—Jabbok.
STRONGS H2999: Abbreviations
† יַבֹּק proper name, of a river (√ probably בקק; so Thes after Simonis, Samaritan Di) מַעֲבַר (ה)יבק Genesis 32:23 (where perhaps connected with אבק = יאבק); נַ֫חַל יַבּ׳ Deuteronomy 2:37, הַנַּחַל יַבּ׳ Deuteronomy 3:16; Joshua 12:2, יַבֹּק Numbers 21:24 (|| אַרְנֹּן, compare Deuteronomy 3:16; Joshua 12:2), הַיַּבֹּק Judges 11:13, 22 (in both || ארנון); it empties into Jordan from East, in latitude of Shiloh; northern border of Amorites, Numbers 21:24 (see Di), Judges 11:22; in its upper course it runs south to north, hence (west) border of Ammon, Deuteronomy 3:16 (compare Deuteronomy 2:37), Joshua 12:2; modern Wady Zerqa BdPal.181.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

32:23

Numbers

21:24; 21:24

Deuteronomy

2:37; 2:37; 3:16; 3:16; 3:16

Joshua

12:2; 12:2; 12:2

Judges

11:13; 11:22; 11:22

H2999

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Strong's Number H2999 matches the Hebrew יַבֹּק (yabōq),
which occurs 7 times in 7 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:22 -

And he arose that same night and took his two wives and his two servant-women and his eleven children and crossed the ford of the Jabbok H2999.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:24 - Then Israel [fn]struck him with the edge of the sword and took possession of his land from the Arnon to the Jabbok H2999, as far as the sons of Ammon; for the border of the sons of Ammon was [fn]Jazer.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:37 - “Only you did not go near to the land of the sons of Ammon, all along the [fn]river Jabbok H2999 and the cities of the hill country, and wherever Yahweh our God had commanded us.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:16 - “And to the Reubenites and to the Gadites I gave from Gilead even as far as the [fn]valley of Arnon, the middle of the [fn]valley [fn]as a border and as far as the [fn]river Jabbok H2999, the border of the sons of Ammon;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 12:2 - Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon and ruled from Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, both the middle of the valley and half of Gilead, even as far as the brook Jabbok H2999, the border of the sons of Ammon;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:13 - Then the king of the sons of Ammon said to the messengers of Jephthah, “Because Israel took away my land when they came up from Egypt, from the Arnon as far as the Jabbok H2999 and the Jordan; so now, return them peaceably.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:22 - ‘So they possessed all the territory of the Amorites, from the Arnon as far as the Jabbok H2999, and from the wilderness as far as the Jordan.
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