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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.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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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 this, his brother came out, with his hand grasping Esau’s heel; so he was named Jacob.[fn] Isaac was sixty years old when Rebekah gave birth to them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:27 - The boys grew up, and Esau became a skillful hunter, a man of the open country, while Jacob was content to stay at home among the tents.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:28 - Isaac, who had a taste for wild game, loved Esau, but Rebekah loved Jacob.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 25:29

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:29 - Once when Jacob was cooking some stew, Esau came in from the open country, famished.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 25:30

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:30 - He said to Jacob, “Quick, let me have some of that red stew! I’m famished!” (That is why he was also called Edom.[fn])

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 25:31

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:31 - Jacob replied, “First sell me your birthright.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 25:33

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:33 - But Jacob said, “Swear to me first.” So he swore an oath to him, selling his birthright to Jacob.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 25:34

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:34 - Then Jacob gave Esau some bread and some lentil stew. He ate and drank, and then got up and left. So 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, “Look, I overheard your father say to your brother Esau,

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 27:11

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 27:15

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 27:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:17 - Then she handed to her son Jacob the tasty food and the bread she had made.

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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. Please sit up and eat some of my game, so that you may give me your blessing.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 27:21

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:21 - Then Isaac said to Jacob, “Come near so I can touch you, my son, to know whether you really are my son Esau or not.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 27:22

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 27:30

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:30 - After Isaac finished blessing him, and Jacob had scarcely left his father’s presence, his brother Esau came in from hunting.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:36 - Esau said, “Isn’t he rightly named Jacob[fn]? This is the second time he has taken advantage of me: He took my birthright, and now he’s taken my blessing!” Then he asked, “Haven’t you reserved any blessing for me?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 27:41

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:41 - Esau held a grudge against Jacob because of the blessing his father had given him. He said to himself, “The days of mourning for my father are near; then I will kill my brother Jacob.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 27:42

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:42 - When Rebekah was told what her older son Esau had said, she sent for her younger son Jacob and said to him, “Your brother Esau is planning to avenge himself by killing you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 27:46

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:46 - Then Rebekah said to Isaac, “I’m disgusted with living because of these Hittite women. If Jacob takes a wife from among the women of this land, from Hittite women like these, my life will not be worth living.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 28:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:1 - So Isaac called for Jacob and blessed him. Then he commanded him: “Do not marry a Canaanite woman.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 28:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:5 - Then Isaac sent Jacob on his way, and he went to Paddan Aram, to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, who was the mother of Jacob and Esau.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 28:6

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:6 - Now Esau learned that Isaac had blessed Jacob and had sent him to Paddan Aram to take a wife from there, and that when he blessed him he commanded him, “Do not marry a Canaanite woman,”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 28:7

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 28:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:10 - Jacob left Beersheba and set out for Harran.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 28:16

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:16 - When Jacob awoke from his sleep, he thought, “Surely the LORD is in this place, and I was not aware of it.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 28:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:18 - Early the next morning Jacob took the stone he had placed under his head and set it up as a pillar and poured oil on top of it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 28:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:20 - Then Jacob made a vow, saying, “If God will be with me and will watch over me on this journey I am taking and will give me food to eat and clothes to wear

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:1 - Then Jacob continued on his journey and came to the land of the eastern peoples.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:4 - Jacob asked the shepherds, “My brothers, where are you from?” “We’re from Harran,” they replied.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:10 - When Jacob saw Rachel daughter of his uncle Laban, and Laban’s sheep, he went over and rolled the stone away from the mouth of the well and watered his uncle’s sheep.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:11 - Then Jacob kissed Rachel and began to weep aloud.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:12 - He had told Rachel that he was a relative of her father and a son of Rebekah. So she ran and told her father.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:13

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:15

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:15 - Laban said to him, “Just because you are a relative of mine, should you work for me for nothing? Tell me what your wages should be.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:18 - Jacob was in love with Rachel and said, “I’ll work for you seven years in return 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 to get Rachel, but they seemed like only a few days to him because of his love for her.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:21

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:21 - Then Jacob said to Laban, “Give me my wife. My time is completed, and I want to make love to her.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:28

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:28 - And Jacob did so. He finished the week with Leah, and then Laban gave him his daughter Rachel to be his wife.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:1 - When Rachel saw that she was not bearing Jacob any children, she became jealous of her sister. So she said to Jacob, “Give me children, or I’ll die!”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:2 - Jacob became angry with her and said, “Am I in the place of God, who has kept you from having children?”

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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. Jacob slept with her,

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:5 - and she became pregnant and bore him 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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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:9 - When Leah saw that she had stopped having children, she took her servant Zilpah and gave her to Jacob as a wife.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:10 - Leah’s servant Zilpah bore Jacob a son.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:12 - Leah’s servant Zilpah bore Jacob a second son.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:16

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:16 - So when Jacob came in from the fields that evening, Leah went out to meet him. “You must sleep with me,” she said. “I have 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 to Leah, and she became pregnant and bore Jacob a fifth son.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:19 - Leah conceived again and bore Jacob a sixth son.

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