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 30:7לְיַעֲקֹֽב׃ · JacobAnd Rachel’s servant Bilhah conceived again and bore Jacob a second son.
- Genesis 30:9לְיַעֲקֹ֖ב · to JacobWhen Leah saw that she had stopped having children, she gave her servant Zilpah to Jacob as a wife.
- Genesis 30:10לְיַעֲקֹ֥ב · JacobAnd Leah’s servant Zilpah bore Jacob a son.
- Genesis 30:12לְיַעֲקֹֽב׃ · JacobWhen Leah’s servant Zilpah bore Jacob a second son,
- Genesis 30:16יַעֲקֹ֣ב · When JacobWhen Jacob came in from the field that evening, Leah went out to meet him and said, “You must come with me, for I have hired you with my son’s mandrakes.” So he slept with her that night.
- Genesis 30:17לְיַעֲקֹ֖ב · to JacobAnd God listened to Leah, and she conceived and bore a fifth son to Jacob.
- Genesis 30:19לְּיַעֲקֹֽב׃ · to JacobAgain Leah conceived and bore a sixth son to Jacob.
- Genesis 30:25יַעֲקֹב֙ · JacobNow after Rachel had given birth to Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, “Send me on my way so I can return to my homeland.
- Genesis 30:31יַעֲקֹב֙ · Jacob replied“What can I give you?” Laban asked. “You do not need to give me anything,” Jacob replied. “If you do this one thing for me, I will keep on shepherding and keeping your flocks.
- Genesis 30:36 (2×)יַעֲקֹ֑ב · and Jacob; וְיַעֲקֹ֗ב · while JacobThen he put a three-day journey between himself and Jacob, while Jacob was shepherding the rest of Laban’s flocks.
- Genesis 30:37יַעֲקֹ֗ב · Jacob, howeverJacob, however, took fresh branches of poplar, almond, and plane trees, and peeled the bark, exposing the white inner wood of the branches.
- Genesis 30:40יַעֲקֹב֒ · JacobJacob set apart the young, but made the rest face the streaked dark-colored sheep in Laban’s flocks. Then he set his own stock apart and did not put them with Laban’s animals.
- Genesis 30:41יַעֲקֹ֧ב · JacobWhenever the stronger females of the flock were in heat, Jacob would place the branches in the troughs, in full view of the animals, so that they would breed in front of the branches.
- Genesis 30:42לְיַעֲקֹֽב׃ · to JacobBut if the animals were weak, he did not set out the branches. So the weaker animals went to Laban and the stronger ones to Jacob.
- Genesis 31:1יַעֲקֹ֔ב · JacobNow Jacob heard that Laban’s sons were saying, “Jacob has taken away all that belonged to our father and built all this wealth at our father’s expense.”
- Genesis 31:2יַעֲקֹ֖ב · And JacobAnd Jacob saw from the countenance of Laban that his attitude toward him had changed.
- Genesis 31:3יַעֲקֹ֔ב · JacobThen the LORD said to Jacob, “Go back to the land of your fathers and to your kindred, and I will be with you.”
- Genesis 31:4יַעֲקֹ֔ב · So JacobSo Jacob sent word and called Rachel and Leah to the field where his flocks were,
- Genesis 31:11יַֽעֲקֹ֑ב · JacobIn that dream the angel of God said to me, ‘Jacob!’ And I replied, ‘Here I am.’
- Genesis 31:17יַעֲקֹ֑ב · Then JacobThen Jacob got up and put his children and his wives on camels,
- Genesis 31:20יַעֲקֹ֔ב · Moreover, JacobMoreover, Jacob deceived Laban the Aramean by not telling him that he was running away.
- Genesis 31:22יַעֲקֹֽב׃ · JacobOn the third day Laban was informed that Jacob had fled.
- Genesis 31:24יַעֲקֹ֖ב · JacobBut that night God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream and warned him, “Be careful not to say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.”
- Genesis 31:25 (2×)יַעֲקֹ֑ב · [him]; וְיַעֲקֹ֗ב · Now JacobNow Jacob had pitched his tent in the hill country of Gilead when Laban overtook him, and Laban and his relatives camped there as well.
- Genesis 31:26לְיַעֲקֹ֔ב · to JacobThen Laban said to Jacob, “What have you done? You have deceived me and carried off my daughters like captives of war!
- Genesis 31:29יַעֲקֹ֖ב · JacobI have power to do you great harm, but last night the God of your father said to me, ‘Be careful not to say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.’
- Genesis 31:31יַעֲקֹ֖ב · Jacob“I was afraid,” Jacob answered, “for I thought you would take your daughters from me by force.
- Genesis 31:32יַעֲקֹ֔ב · For JacobIf you find your gods with anyone here, he shall not live! In the presence of our relatives, see for yourself if anything is yours, and take it back.” For Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen the idols.
- Genesis 31:33יַעֲקֹ֣ב׀ · into Jacob’sSo Laban went into Jacob’s tent, then Leah’s tent, and then the tents of the two maidservants, but he found nothing. Then he left Leah’s tent and entered Rachel’s tent.
- Genesis 31:36 (2×)לְיַעֲקֹ֖ב · Then Jacob; יַעֲקֹב֙ · heThen Jacob became incensed and challenged Laban. “What is my crime?” he said. “For what sin of mine have you so hotly pursued me?
- Genesis 31:43יַעֲקֹ֗ב · JacobBut Laban answered Jacob, “These daughters are my daughters, these sons are my sons, and these flocks are my flocks! Everything you see is mine! Yet what can I do today about these daughters of mine or the children they have borne?
- Genesis 31:45יַעֲקֹ֖ב · So JacobSo Jacob picked out a stone and set it up as a pillar,
- Genesis 31:46יַעֲקֹ֤ב · and [he]…and he said to his relatives, “Gather some stones.” So they took stones and made a mound, and there by the mound they ate.
- Genesis 31:47וְיַֽעֲקֹ֔ב · and JacobLaban called it Jegar-sahadutha, and Jacob called it Galeed.
- Genesis 31:51לְיַעֲקֹ֑ב · to JacobLaban also said to Jacob, “Here is the mound, and here is the pillar I have set up between you and me.
- Genesis 31:53יַעֲקֹ֔ב · So JacobMay the God of Abraham and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us.” So Jacob swore by the Fear of his father Isaac.
- Genesis 31:54יַעֲקֹ֥ב · Then JacobThen Jacob offered a sacrifice on the mountain and invited his relatives to eat a meal. And after they had eaten, they spent the night on the mountain.
- Genesis 32:1וְיַעֲקֹ֖ב · Jacob alsoJacob also went on his way, and the angels of God met him.
- Genesis 32:2יַעֲקֹב֙ · [he]When Jacob saw them, he said, “This is the camp of God.” So he named that place Mahanaim.
- Genesis 32:3יַעֲקֹ֤ב · JacobJacob sent messengers ahead of him to his brother Esau in the land of Seir, the country of Edom.
- Genesis 32:4יַעֲקֹ֔ב · JacobHe instructed them, “You are to say to my master Esau, ‘Your servant Jacob says: I have been staying with Laban and have remained there until now.
- Genesis 32:6יַעֲקֹ֖ב · JacobWhen the messengers returned to Jacob, they said, “We went to your brother Esau, and now he is coming to meet you—he and four hundred men with him.”
- Genesis 32:7יַעֲקֹ֛ב · JacobIn great fear and distress, Jacob divided his people into two camps, as well as the flocks and herds and camels.
- Genesis 32:9יַעֲקֹב֒ · Then JacobThen Jacob declared, “O God of my father Abraham, God of my father Isaac, the LORD who told me, ‘Go back to your country and to your kindred, and I will make you prosper,’
- Genesis 32:18לְיַעֲקֹ֔ב · Jacob…then you are to say, ‘They belong to your servant Jacob. They are a gift, sent to my lord Esau. And behold, Jacob is behind us.’”
- Genesis 32:20יַעֲקֹ֖ב · JacobYou are also to say, ‘Look, your servant Jacob is right behind us.’” For he thought, “I will appease Esau with the gift that is going before me. After that I can face him, and perhaps he will accept me.”
- Genesis 32:24יַעֲקֹ֖ב · So JacobSo Jacob was left all alone, and there a man wrestled with him until daybreak.