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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

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H3290 matches the Hebrew יַעֲקֹב (yaʿăqōḇ),
which occurs 349 times in 319 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 3 / 7 (Gen 34:1–Gen 47:10)

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:1 -

Now Dinah the daughter of Leah, whom she had borne to Jacob H3290, went out to see the daughters of the land.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:3 - [fn]And he was deeply attracted to Dinah the daughter of Jacob H3290, and he loved the young woman and spoke to the heart of the young woman.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:5 - Now Jacob H3290 heard that he had defiled Dinah his daughter; but his sons were with his livestock in the field, so Jacob H3290 kept silent until they came in.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:6 - Then Hamor the father of Shechem went out to Jacob H3290 to speak with him.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:7 - Now the sons of Jacob H3290 came in from the field when they heard it; and the men were grieved, and they were very angry because he had done a [fn]disgraceful thing in Israel [fn]by lying with Jacob’s H3290 daughter, for such a thing ought not to be done.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:13 -

But Jacob’s H3290 sons answered Shechem and his father Hamor with deceit, and thus they spoke, because he had defiled Dinah their sister.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:19 - So the young man did not delay to do the thing because he was delighted with Jacob’s H3290 daughter. Now he was more honored than all the household of his father.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:25 -

Now it happened on the third day, when they were in pain, that two of Jacob’s H3290 sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah’s brothers, each took his sword and came upon the unsuspecting city and killed every male.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:27 - Jacob’s H3290 sons came upon the slain and plundered the city because they had defiled their sister.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:30 - Then Jacob H3290 said to Simeon and Levi, “You have brought trouble on me by making me odious among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites; and [fn]my men being few in number, they will gather together against me and strike me, and I will be destroyed, I and my household.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:1 -

Then God said to Jacob H3290, “Arise, go up to Bethel and [fn]live there, and make an altar there to God, who appeared to you when you fled [fn]from your brother Esau.”

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:2 - So Jacob H3290 said to his household and to all who were with him, “Put away the foreign gods which are among you and cleanse yourselves and change your garments;
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:4 - So they gave to Jacob H3290 all the foreign gods which [fn]they had and the rings which were in their ears, and Jacob H3290 hid them under the [fn]oak which was near Shechem.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:5 -

Then they journeyed on, and there was [fn]a terror from God upon the cities which were around them, and they did not pursue the sons of Jacob H3290.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:6 - So Jacob H3290 came to Luz (that is, Bethel), which is in the land of Canaan, he and all the people who were with him.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:9 -

Then God appeared to Jacob H3290 again when he came from Paddan-aram, and He blessed him.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:10 - And God said to him,

“Your name is Jacob H3290;

Your name shall no longer be called Jacob H3290,

But Israel shall be your name.”

Thus He called his name Israel.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:14 - And Jacob H3290 set up a pillar in the place where He had spoken with him, a pillar of stone, and he poured out a drink offering on it; he also poured oil on it.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:15 - So Jacob H3290 named the place where God had spoken with him, [fn]Bethel.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:20 - And Jacob H3290 set up a pillar over her grave; that is the pillar of Rachel’s grave to this day.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:22 -

Now it happened while Israel was dwelling in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father’s concubine, and Israel heard of it.

And there were twelve sons of Jacob H3290

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:23 -

the sons of Leah:

Reuben, Jacob’s H3290 firstborn,

then Simeon and Levi and Judah and Issachar and Zebulun;

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:26 -

and the sons of Zilpah, Leah’s servant-woman:

Gad and Asher.

These are the sons of Jacob H3290 who were born to him in Paddan-aram.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:27 -

And Jacob H3290 came to his father Isaac at Mamre of Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had sojourned.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:29 - And Isaac breathed his last and died and was gathered to his people, an old man and full of days; and his sons Esau and Jacob H3290 buried him.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:6 -

Then Esau took his wives and his sons and his daughters and all [fn]his household, and his livestock and all his cattle and all his acquired goods, which he had accumulated in the land of Canaan, and he went to a land away from his brother Jacob H3290.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:1 -

Now Jacob H3290 lived in the land [fn]where his father had sojourned, in the land of Canaan.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:2 - These are the generations of Jacob H3290.

Joseph, when seventeen years of age, was pasturing the flock with his brothers while he was still a youth, along with the sons of Bilhah and the sons of Zilpah, his father’s wives. And Joseph brought back an evil report about them to their father.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:34 - So Jacob H3290 tore his clothes and put sackcloth on his loins and mourned for his son many days.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:1 -

Now Jacob H3290 saw that there was grain in Egypt, and Jacob H3290 said to his sons, “Why are you staring at one another?”

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:4 - But Jacob H3290 did not send Joseph’s brother Benjamin with his brothers, for he said, “Lest any harm befall him.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:29 -

Then they came to their father Jacob H3290 in the land of Canaan and told him all that had happened to them, saying,

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:36 - And their father Jacob H3290 said to them, “You have bereaved me of my children: Joseph is no more, and Simeon is no more, and you would take Benjamin; all these things are against me.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:25 - Then they went up from Egypt, and came to the land of Canaan to their father Jacob H3290.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:27 - Yet they told him all the words of Joseph that he had spoken to them, and he saw the wagons that Joseph had sent to carry him. Then the spirit of their father Jacob H3290 revived.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:2 - And God spoke to Israel [fn]in visions of the night and said, “Jacob H3290, Jacob H3290.” And he said, “Here I am.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:5 -

Then Jacob H3290 arose from Beersheba; and the sons of Israel carried their father Jacob H3290 and their little ones and their wives in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:6 - And they took their livestock and their possessions, which they had accumulated in the land of Canaan, and they came to Egypt, Jacob H3290 and all his seed with him:
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:8 -

Now these are the names of the sons of Israel—of Jacob H3290 and his sons—who were coming to Egypt: Reuben, Jacob’s H3290 firstborn.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:15 - These are the sons of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob H3290 in Paddan-aram, with his daughter Dinah; [fn]all his sons and his daughters numbered thirty-three.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:18 - These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to his daughter Leah; and she bore to Jacob H3290 these sixteen persons.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:19 -

The sons of Jacob’s H3290 wife Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:22 - These are the sons of Rachel, who were born to Jacob H3290; there were fourteen persons in all.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:25 -

These are the sons of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to his daughter Rachel, and she bore these to Jacob H3290; there were seven persons in all.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:26 - All the persons belonging to Jacob H3290, who came to Egypt, who came out of his loins, excluding the wives of Jacob’s H3290 sons, were sixty-six persons in all,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:27 - and the sons of Joseph, who were born to him in Egypt were [fn]two; all the persons of the house of Jacob H3290, who came to Egypt, were seventy.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:7 -

Then Joseph brought his father Jacob H3290 and stood him before Pharaoh; and Jacob H3290 blessed Pharaoh.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:8 - And Pharaoh said to Jacob H3290, “How many are the days of the years of your life?”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:9 - So Jacob H3290 said to Pharaoh, “The days of the years of my sojourning are [fn]130; few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not [fn]attained to the days of the years [fn]that my fathers lived during the days of their sojourning.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:10 - And Jacob H3290 blessed Pharaoh and went out from the presence of Pharaoh.

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