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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 - After that, his brother came out, and his hand had hold on Esav's heel. He was named Ya`akov. Yitzchak was sixty years old when she bore them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:27 - The boys grew. Esav was a skillful hunter, a man of the field. Ya`akov was a quiet man, living in tents.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:28 - Now Yitzchak loved Esav, because he ate his venison. Rivka loved Ya`akov.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:29 - Ya`akov boiled stew. Esav came in from the field, and he was famished.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 25:30

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:30 - Esav said to Ya`akov, "Please feed me with that same red stew, for I am famished." Therefore his name was called Edom.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:31 - Ya`akov said, "First, sell me your birthright."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 25:33

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:33 - Ya`akov said, "Swear to me first." He swore to him. He sold his birthright to Ya`akov.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 25:34

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:34 - Ya`akov gave Esav bread and stew of lentils. He ate and drank, rose up, and went his way. So Esav despised his birthright.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:6 - Rivka spoke to Ya`akov her son, saying, "Behold, I heard your father speak to Esav your brother, saying,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:11 - Ya`akov said to Rivka his mother, "Behold, Esav my brother 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 - Rivka took the good clothes of Esav, her elder son, which were with her in the house, and put them on Ya`akov, her younger son.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 27:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:17 - She gave the savory food and the bread, which she had prepared, into the hand of her son Ya`akov.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 27:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:19 - Ya`akov said to his father, "I am Esav your firstborn. I have done what you asked me to do. Please arise, sit and eat of my venison, that your soul may bless me."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 27:21

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:21 - Yitzchak said to Ya`akov, "Please come near, that I may feel you, my son, whether you are really my son Esav or not."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 27:22

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:22 - Ya`akov went near to Yitzchak his father. He felt him, and said, "The voice is Ya`akov's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esav."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 27:30

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:30 - It happened, as soon as Yitzchak had made an end of blessing Ya`akov, and Ya`akov had just gone out from the presence of Yitzchak his father, that Esav his brother came in from his hunting.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 27:36

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:36 - He said, "Isn't he rightly named Ya`akov? For he has supplanted me these two times. He took away my birthright. See, now he has taken away my blessing." He said, "Haven't you reserved a blessing for me?"

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 27:41

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:41 - Esav hated Ya`akov because of the blessing with which his father blessed him. Esav said in his heart, "The days of mourning for my father are at hand. Then I will kill my brother Ya`akov."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 27:42

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:42 - The words of Esav, her elder son, were told to Rivka. She sent and called Ya`akov her younger son, and said to him, "Behold, your brother Esav comforts himself about you by planning to kill you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 27:46

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:46 - Rivka said to Yitzchak, "I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Het. If Ya`akov takes a wife of the daughters of Het, such as these, of the daughters of the land, what good will my life do me?"

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 28:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:1 - Yitzchak called Ya`akov, blessed him, and commanded him, "You shall not take a wife of the daughters of Kana`an.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 28:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:5 - Yitzchak sent Ya`akov away. He went to Paddan-Aram to Lavan, son of Betu'el the Arammian, Rivka's brother, Ya`akov's and Esav's mother.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 28:6

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:6 - Now Esav saw that Yitzchak had blessed Ya`akov and sent him away to Paddan-Aram, to take him a wife from there, and that as he blessed him he gave him a charge, saying, "You shall not take a wife of the daughters of Kana`an,"

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 28:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:7 - and that Ya`akov obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Paddan-Aram.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 28:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:10 - Ya`akov went out from Be'er-Sheva, and went toward Haran.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 28:16

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:16 - Ya`akov awakened out of his sleep, and he said, "Surely the LORD is in this place, and I didn't know it."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 28:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:18 - Ya`akov rose up early in the morning, and 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 28:20 - Ya`akov 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 clothing to put on,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:1 - Then Ya`akov went on his journey, and came to the land of the children of the east.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:4 - Ya`akov said to them, "My relatives, where are you from?" They said, "We are from Haran."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:10 - It happened, when Ya`akov saw Rachel the daughter of Lavan, his mother's brother, and the sheep of Lavan, his mother's brother, that Ya`akov went near, and rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the flock of Lavan his mother's brother.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:11 - Ya`akov kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice, and wept.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:12 - Ya`akov told Rachel that he was her father's brother, and that he was Rivka's son. She ran and told her father.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:13 - It happened, when Lavan heard the news of Ya`akov, his sister's son, that he ran to meet Ya`akov, and embraced him, and kissed him, and brought him to his house. Ya`akov told Lavan all these things.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:15

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:15 - Lavan said to Ya`akov, "Because you are my brother, should you therefore serve me for nothing? Tell me, what will your wages be?"

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:18 - Ya`akov loved Rachel. He said, "I will serve you seven years for Rachel, your younger daughter."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:20 - Ya`akov served seven years for Rachel. They seemed to him but a few days, for the love he had for her.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:21

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:21 - Ya`akov said to Lavan, "Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in to her."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:28

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:28 - Ya`akov did so, and fulfilled her week. He gave him Rachel his daughter as wife.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:1 - When Rachel saw that she bore Ya`akov no children, Rachel envied her sister. She said to Ya`akov, "Give me children, or else I will die."

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:2 - Ya`akov's anger was kindled against Rachel, and he said, "Am I in God's place, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?"

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:4 - She gave him Bilhah her handmaid as wife, and Ya`akov went in to her.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:5 - Bilhah conceived, and bore Ya`akov a son.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:7 - Bilhah, Rachel's handmaid, conceived again, and bore Ya`akov a second son.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:9 - When Le'ah saw that she had finished bearing, she took Zilpah, her handmaid, and gave her to Ya`akov as a wife.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:10 - Zilpah, Le'ah's handmaid, bore Ya`akov a son.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:12 - Zilpah, Le'ah's handmaid, bore Ya`akov a second son.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:16

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:16 - Ya`akov came from the field in the evening, and Le'ah went out to meet him, and said, "You must come in to me; for I have surely hired you with my son's dudaim." He lay with her that night.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:17 - God listened to Le'ah, and she conceived, and bore Ya`akov a fifth son.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:19 - Le'ah conceived again, and bore a sixth son to Ya`akov.

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