This is the name of Israel: Patriarch, son of Isaac, father of twelve tribes.
Definition
from H6117; heel-catcher (i.e. supplanter); Jaakob, the Israelitish patriarch
Traditional renderings: Jacob.
Traditional renderings: Jacob.
Glossary entries
Where it occurs
Occurrences
349 total
- Genesis 25:26יַעֲקֹ֑ב · JacobAfter this, his brother came out grasping Esau’s heel; so he was named Jacob. And Isaac was sixty years old when the twins were born.
- Genesis 25:27וְיַעֲקֹב֙ · while JacobWhen the boys grew up, Esau became a skillful hunter, a man of the field, while Jacob was a quiet man who stayed at home.
- Genesis 25:28יַעֲקֹֽב׃ · JacobBecause Isaac had a taste for wild game, he loved Esau; but Rebekah loved Jacob.
- Genesis 25:29יַעֲקֹ֖ב · One day, while JacobOne day, while Jacob was cooking some stew, Esau came in from the field and was famished.
- Genesis 25:30יַעֲקֹ֗ב · JacobHe said to Jacob, “Let me eat some of that red stew, for I am famished.” (That is why he was also called Edom.)
- Genesis 25:31יַעֲקֹ֑ב · Jacob“First sell me your birthright,” Jacob replied.
- Genesis 25:33 (2×)יַעֲקֹ֗ב · Jacob; לְיַעֲקֹֽב׃ · him“Swear to me first,” Jacob said. So Esau swore to Jacob and sold him the birthright.
- Genesis 25:34וְיַעֲקֹ֞ב · Then JacobThen Jacob gave some bread and lentil stew to Esau, who ate and drank and then got up and went away. Thus Esau despised his birthright.
- Genesis 27:6יַעֲקֹ֥ב · JacobRebekah said to her son Jacob, “Behold, I overheard your father saying to your brother Esau,
- Genesis 27:11יַעֲקֹ֔ב · JacobJacob answered his mother Rebekah, “Look, my brother Esau is a hairy man, but I am smooth-skinned.
- Genesis 27:15יַעֲקֹ֖ב · JacobAnd Rebekah took the finest clothes in the house that belonged to her older son Esau, and she put them on her younger son Jacob.
- Genesis 27:17יַעֲקֹ֥ב · JacobThen she handed her son Jacob the tasty food and bread she had made.
- Genesis 27:19יַעֲקֹ֜ב · JacobJacob 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 bless me.”
- Genesis 27:21יַעֲקֹ֔ב · JacobThen Isaac said to Jacob, “Please come closer so I can touch you, my son. Are you really my son Esau, or not?”
- Genesis 27:22 (2×)יַעֲקֹ֛ב · So Jacob; יַעֲקֹ֔ב · of JacobSo Jacob came 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.”
- Genesis 27:30 (2×)יַעֲקֹב֒ · [him]; יַעֲקֹ֔ב · and JacobAs soon as Isaac had finished blessing him and Jacob had left his father’s presence, his brother Esau returned from the hunt.
- Genesis 27:36יַעֲקֹ֗ב · JacobSo Esau declared, “Is he not rightly named Jacob? For he has cheated me twice. He took my birthright, and now he has taken my blessing.” Then he asked, “Haven’t you saved a blessing for me?”
- Genesis 27:41 (2×)יַעֲקֹ֔ב · against Jacob; יַעֲקֹ֥ב · JacobEsau held a grudge against Jacob because of the blessing his father had given him. And Esau said in his heart, “The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then I will kill my brother Jacob.”
- Genesis 27:42לְיַעֲקֹב֙ · JacobWhen the words of her older son Esau were relayed to Rebekah, she sent for her younger son Jacob and told him, “Look, your brother Esau is consoling himself by plotting to kill you.
- Genesis 27:46יַ֠עֲקֹב · JacobThen Rebekah said to Isaac, “I am weary of my life because of these Hittite women. If Jacob takes a Hittite wife from among them, what good is my life?”
- Genesis 28:1יַעֲקֹ֖ב · JacobSo Isaac called for Jacob and blessed him. “Do not take a wife from the Canaanite women,” he commanded.
- Genesis 28:5 (2×)יַעֲקֹ֔ב · Jacob; יַעֲקֹ֖ב · of JacobSo Isaac sent Jacob to Paddan-aram, to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, who was the mother of Jacob and Esau.
- Genesis 28:6יַעֲקֹב֒ · JacobNow Esau learned that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him to Paddan-aram to take a wife there, commanding him, “Do not marry a Canaanite woman,”
- Genesis 28:7יַעֲקֹ֔ב · and that Jacob…and that Jacob had obeyed his father and mother and gone to Paddan-aram.
- Genesis 28:10יַעֲקֹ֖ב · Meanwhile JacobMeanwhile Jacob left Beersheba and set out for Haran.
- Genesis 28:16יַעֲקֹב֮ · When JacobWhen Jacob woke up, he said, “Surely the LORD is in this place, and I was unaware of it.”
- Genesis 28:18יַעֲקֹ֜ב · JacobEarly the next morning, Jacob took the stone that he had placed under his head, and he set it up as a pillar. He poured oil on top of it,
- Genesis 28:20יַעֲקֹ֖ב · Then JacobThen Jacob made a vow, saying, “If God will be with me and watch over me on this journey, and if He will provide me with food to eat and clothes to wear,
- Genesis 29:1יַעֲקֹ֖ב · JacobJacob resumed his journey and came to the land of the people of the east.
- Genesis 29:4יַעֲקֹ֔ב · Jacob“My brothers,” Jacob asked the shepherds, “where are you from?” “We are from Haran,” they answered.
- Genesis 29:10 (2×)יַעֲקֹ֜ב · Jacob; יַעֲקֹ֗ב · heAs soon as Jacob saw Rachel, the daughter of his mother’s brother Laban, with Laban’s sheep, he went up and rolled the stone away from the mouth of the well and watered his uncle’s sheep.
- Genesis 29:11יַעֲקֹ֖ב · Then JacobThen Jacob kissed Rachel and wept aloud.
- Genesis 29:12יַעֲקֹ֜ב · HeHe told Rachel that he was Rebekah’s son, a relative of her father, and she ran and told her father.
- Genesis 29:13יַעֲקֹ֣ב · JacobWhen Laban heard the news about his sister’s son Jacob, he ran out to meet him. He embraced him and kissed him and brought him to his home, where Jacob told him all that had happened.
- Genesis 29:15לְיַעֲקֹ֔ב · to himLaban said to him, “Just because you are my relative, should you work for nothing? Tell me what your wages should be.”
- Genesis 29:18יַעֲקֹ֖ב · Since JacobSince Jacob loved Rachel, he answered, “I will serve you seven years for your younger daughter Rachel.”
- Genesis 29:20יַעֲקֹ֛ב · So JacobSo Jacob served seven years for Rachel, yet it seemed but a few days because of his love for her.
- Genesis 29:21יַעֲקֹ֤ב · Finally JacobFinally Jacob said to Laban, “Grant me my wife, for my time is complete, and I want to sleep with her.”
- Genesis 29:28יַעֲקֹב֙ · And JacobAnd Jacob did just that. He finished the week’s celebration, and Laban gave him his daughter Rachel as his wife.
- Genesis 30:1 (2×)לְיַעֲקֹ֔ב · for Jacob; יַעֲקֹב֙ · JacobWhen Rachel saw that she was not bearing any children for Jacob, she envied her sister. “Give me children, or I will die!” she said to Jacob.
- Genesis 30:2יַעֲקֹ֖ב · JacobJacob became angry with Rachel and said, “Am I in the place of God, who has withheld children from you?”
- Genesis 30:4יַעֲקֹֽב׃ · and [he]So Rachel gave Jacob her servant Bilhah as a wife, and he slept with her,
- Genesis 30:5לְיַעֲקֹ֖ב · [him]…and Bilhah conceived and bore him a son.