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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 - Afterward his brother came out, and his hand grasped Esau’s heel, so he was named Jacob ([fn]one who grabs by the heel, supplanter). Isaac was sixty years old when Rebekah gave birth to them.

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When the boys grew up, Esau was an able and skilled hunter, a man of the outdoors, but Jacob was a quiet and peaceful man, living in tents.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:28 - Now Isaac loved [and favored] Esau, because [fn]he enjoyed eating his game, but Rebekah loved [and favored] Jacob.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:29 - Jacob had cooked [reddish-brown lentil] stew [one day], when Esau came from the field and was famished;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:30 - and Esau said to Jacob, “Please, let me have a quick swallow of that red stuff there, because I am exhausted and famished.” For that reason Esau was [also] called Edom (Red).

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:31 - Jacob answered, “First sell me your [fn]birthright (the rights of a firstborn).”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:33 - Jacob said, “Swear [an oath] to me today [that you are selling it to me for this food]”; so he swore [an oath] to him, and sold him his birthright.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:34 - Then Jacob gave Esau bread and lentil stew; and he ate and drank, and got up and went on his way. In this way Esau scorned his birthright.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:6 - Rebekah said to Jacob her [younger and favorite] son, “Listen carefully: I heard your father saying to Esau your brother,

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:15 - Then Rebekah took her elder son Esau’s best clothes, which were with her in her house, and put them on Jacob her younger son.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:17 - Then she gave her son Jacob the delicious meat and the bread which she had prepared.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:19 - Jacob said to his father, “I am Esau your firstborn; I have done what you told me to do. Now please, sit up and eat some of my game, so that you may bless me.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:21 - But Isaac [wondered and] said to Jacob, “Please come close [to me] so that I may touch you, my son, and determine if you are really my son Esau or not.”

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

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Now as soon as Isaac had finished blessing Jacob, and Jacob had scarcely left the presence of Isaac his father, Esau his brother came in from his hunting.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:36 - Esau replied, “Is he not rightly named [fn]Jacob (the supplanter)? For he has supplanted me these two times: he took away my birthright, and now he has taken away my blessing. Have you not reserved a blessing for me?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:41 -

So 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 very near; then I will kill my brother Jacob.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:42 - When these words of her elder son Esau were repeated to Rebekah, she sent for Jacob her younger son, and said to him, “Listen carefully, your brother Esau is comforting himself concerning you by planning to kill you.

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Then Rebekah said to Isaac, “I am tired of living because of the daughters of Heth [these insolent wives of Esau]. If Jacob takes a wife from the daughters of Heth, like these daughters of the land, what good will my life be to me?”

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So Isaac called Jacob and blessed him and charged him, and said to him, “You shall not marry one of the women of Canaan.

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

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Now Esau noticed that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him to Paddan-aram to take a wife for himself from there, and that as he blessed him he gave him a prohibition, saying, “You shall not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan,”

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

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Now Jacob left Beersheba [never to see his mother again] and traveled toward Haran.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:16 - Then Jacob awoke from his sleep and he said, “Without any doubt the LORD is in this place, and I did not realize it.”

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So Jacob got up early in the morning, and took the stone he had put under his head and he set it up as a pillar [that is, a monument to the vision in his dream], and he poured [olive] oil on the top of it [to [fn]consecrate it].

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:20 - Then Jacob made a vow (promise), saying, “If God will be with me and will keep me on this journey that I take, and will give me food to eat and clothing to wear,

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Then Jacob [fn]went on his way and came to the land of the people of the East [near Haran].

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Jacob said to them, “My brothers, where are you from?” And they said, “We are from Haran.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:10 - When Jacob saw [his cousin] Rachel, the daughter of Laban, his mother’s brother, and Laban’s sheep, he came up and rolled the stone away from the mouth of the well and watered the flock of Laban, his uncle.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:11 - Then Jacob kissed Rachel [in greeting], and he raised his voice and wept.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:12 - Jacob told Rachel he was her father’s relative, Rebekah’s son; and she ran and told her father.

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When Laban heard of the arrival of Jacob, his sister’s son, he ran to meet him, and embraced and kissed him and brought him to his house. Then he told Laban all these things.

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Then Laban said to Jacob, “Just because you are my relative, should you work for me for nothing? Tell me, what should your wages be?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:18 - Jacob loved Rachel, so he said, “I will serve you [as a hired workman] for seven years [in return] for [the privilege of marrying] Rachel your younger daughter.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:20 - So Jacob served [Laban] for seven years for [the right to marry] Rachel, but they seemed like only a few days to him because of his love for her.

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Finally, Jacob said to Laban, “Give me my wife, for my time [of service] is completed, so that I may take her to me [as my wife].”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:28 - So Jacob complied and fulfilled Leah’s week [of celebration]; then Laban gave him his daughter Rachel as his [second] wife.

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When Rachel saw that she conceived no children for Jacob, she envied her sister, and said to Jacob, “Give me children, or else I will die.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:2 - Then Jacob became furious with Rachel, and he said, “Am I in the place of God, who has denied you children?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:4 - So she gave him Bilhah her maid as a [[fn]secondary] wife, and Jacob went in to her.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:5 - Bilhah conceived and gave birth to a son for Jacob.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:7 - Bilhah, Rachel’s maid, conceived again and gave birth to a second son for Jacob.

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When Leah saw that she had stopped bearing [children], she took Zilpah her maid and gave her to Jacob as a [[fn]secondary] wife.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:10 - Zilpah, Leah’s maid, gave birth to a son for Jacob.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:12 - Zilpah, Leah’s maid, gave birth to a second son for Jacob.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:16 - When Jacob came in from the field in the evening, Leah went out to meet him and said, “You must sleep with me [tonight], for I have in fact hired you with my son’s mandrakes.” So he slept with her that night.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:17 - God listened and answered [the prayer of] Leah, and she conceived and gave birth to a fifth son for Jacob.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:19 - Leah conceived again and gave birth to a sixth son for Jacob.

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