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 32:25יַעֲקֹ֔ב · [it]When the man saw that he could not overpower Jacob, he struck the socket of Jacob’s hip and dislocated it as they wrestled.
- Genesis 32:27יַעֲקֹֽב׃ · Jacob“What is your name?” the man asked. “Jacob,” he replied.
- Genesis 32:28יַעֲקֹב֙ · JacobThen the man said, “Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel, because you have struggled with God and with men, and you have prevailed.”
- Genesis 32:29יַעֲקֹ֗ב · And JacobAnd Jacob requested, “Please tell me your name.” But he replied, “Why do you ask my name?” Then he blessed Jacob there.
- Genesis 32:30יַעֲקֹ֛ב · So JacobSo Jacob named the place Peniel, saying, “Indeed, I have seen God face to face, and yet my life was spared.”
- Genesis 32:32יַעֲקֹ֔ב · of Jacob’sTherefore to this day the Israelites do not eat the tendon attached to the socket of the hip, because the socket of Jacob’s hip was struck near that tendon.
- Genesis 33:1יַעֲקֹ֜ב · Now JacobNow Jacob looked up and saw Esau coming toward him with four hundred men. So he divided the children among Leah, Rachel, and the two maidservants.
- Genesis 33:10יַעֲקֹ֗ב · But JacobBut Jacob insisted, “No, please! If I have found favor in your sight, then receive this gift from my hand. For indeed, I have seen your face, and it is like seeing the face of God, since you have received me favorably.
- Genesis 33:17וְיַעֲקֹב֙ · but Jacob…but Jacob went on to Succoth, where he built a house for himself and shelters for his livestock; that is why the place was called Succoth.
- Genesis 33:18יַעֲקֹ֨ב · After JacobAfter Jacob had come from Paddan-aram, he arrived safely at the city of Shechem in the land of Canaan, and he camped just outside the city.
- Genesis 34:1לְיַעֲקֹ֑ב · to JacobNow Dinah, the daughter Leah had borne to Jacob, went out to visit the daughters of the land.
- Genesis 34:3יַעֲקֹ֑ב · of JacobAnd his soul was drawn to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob. He loved the young girl and spoke to her tenderly.
- Genesis 34:5 (2×)וְיַעֲקֹ֣ב · Jacob; יַעֲקֹ֖ב · heJacob heard that Shechem had defiled his daughter Dinah, but since his sons were with his livestock in the field, he remained silent about it until they returned.
- Genesis 34:6יַעֲקֹ֑ב · JacobMeanwhile, Shechem’s father Hamor came to speak with Jacob.
- Genesis 34:7 (2×)יַעֲקֹ֜ב · When Jacob’s; יַעֲקֹ֔ב · Jacob’sWhen Jacob’s sons heard what had happened, they returned from the field. They were filled with grief and fury, because Shechem had committed an outrage in Israel by lying with Jacob’s daughter—a thing that should not be done.
- Genesis 34:13יַעֲקֹ֜ב · Jacob’sBut because Shechem had defiled their sister Dinah, Jacob’s sons answered him and his father Hamor deceitfully.
- Genesis 34:19יַעֲקֹ֑ב · with Jacob’sThe young man, who was the most respected of all his father’s household, did not hesitate to fulfill this request, because he was delighted with Jacob’s daughter.
- Genesis 34:25יַ֠עֲקֹב · of Jacob’sThree days later, while they were still in pain, two of Jacob’s sons (Dinah’s brothers Simeon and Levi) took their swords, went into the unsuspecting city, and slaughtered every male.
- Genesis 34:27יַעֲקֹ֗ב · Jacob’sJacob’s other sons came upon the slaughter and looted the city, because their sister had been defiled.
- Genesis 34:30יַעֲקֹ֜ב · Then JacobThen Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have brought trouble upon me by making me a stench to the Canaanites and Perizzites, the people of this land. We are few in number; if they unite against me and attack me, I and my household will be destroyed.”
- Genesis 35:1יַעֲקֹ֔ב · JacobThen God said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to Bethel, and settle there. Build an altar there to the God who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau.”
- Genesis 35:2יַעֲקֹב֙ · So JacobSo Jacob told his household and all who were with him, “Get rid of the foreign gods that are among you. Purify yourselves and change your garments.
- Genesis 35:4 (2×)יַעֲקֹ֗ב · Jacob; יַעֲקֹ֔ב · and JacobSo they gave Jacob all their foreign gods and all their earrings, and Jacob buried them under the oak near Shechem.
- Genesis 35:5יַעֲקֹֽב׃ · Jacob’sAs they set out, a terror from God fell over the surrounding cities, so that they did not pursue Jacob’s sons.
- Genesis 35:6יַעֲקֹ֜ב · So JacobSo Jacob and everyone with him arrived in Luz (that is, Bethel) in the land of Canaan.
- Genesis 35:9יַעֲקֹב֙ · [him]After Jacob had returned from Paddan-aram, God appeared to him again and blessed him.
- Genesis 35:10 (2×)יַעֲקֹ֑ב · is Jacob; יַעֲקֹ֗ב · JacobAnd God said to him, “Though your name is Jacob, you will no longer be called Jacob. Instead, your name will be Israel.” So God named him Israel.
- Genesis 35:14יַעֲקֹ֜ב · So JacobSo Jacob set up a pillar in the place where God had spoken with him—a stone marker—and he poured out a drink offering on it and anointed it with oil.
- Genesis 35:15יַעֲקֹ֜ב · JacobJacob called the place where God had spoken with him Bethel.
- Genesis 35:20יַעֲקֹ֛ב · JacobJacob set up a pillar on her grave; it marks Rachel’s tomb to this day.
- Genesis 35:22יַעֲקֹ֖ב · Jacob hadWhile Israel was living in that region, Reuben went in and slept with his father’s concubine Bilhah, and Israel heard about it. Jacob had twelve sons:
- Genesis 35:23יַעֲקֹ֖ב · of JacobThe sons of Leah were Reuben the firstborn of Jacob, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun.
- Genesis 35:26יַעֲקֹ֔ב · of JacobAnd the sons of Leah’s maidservant Zilpah were Gad and Asher. These are the sons of Jacob, who were born to him in Paddan-aram.
- Genesis 35:27יַעֲקֹב֙ · JacobJacob returned to his father Isaac at Mamre, near Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had stayed.
- Genesis 35:29וְיַעֲקֹ֖ב · and JacobThen he breathed his last and died and was gathered to his people, old and full of years. And his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.
- Genesis 36:6יַעֲקֹ֥ב · JacobLater, Esau took his wives and sons and daughters and all the people of his household, along with his livestock, all his other animals, and all the property he had acquired in Canaan, and he moved to a land far away from his brother Jacob.
- Genesis 37:1יַעֲקֹ֔ב · Now JacobNow Jacob lived in the land where his father had resided, the land of Canaan.
- Genesis 37:2יַעֲקֹ֗ב · of JacobThis is the account of Jacob. When Joseph was seventeen years old, he was tending the flock with his brothers, the sons of his father’s wives Bilhah and Zilpah, and he brought their father a bad report about them.
- Genesis 37:34יַעֲקֹב֙ · Then JacobThen Jacob tore his clothes, put sackcloth around his waist, and mourned for his son many days.
- Genesis 42:1 (2×)יַעֲקֹ֔ב · When Jacob; יַעֲקֹב֙ · heWhen Jacob learned that there was grain in Egypt, he said to his sons, “Why are you staring at one another?”
- Genesis 42:4יַעֲקֹ֖ב · But JacobBut Jacob did not send Joseph’s brother Benjamin with his brothers, for he said, “I am afraid that harm might befall him.”
- Genesis 42:29יַעֲקֹ֥ב · JacobWhen they reached their father Jacob in the land of Canaan, they described to him all that had happened to them:
- Genesis 42:36יַעֲקֹ֣ב · JacobTheir father Jacob said to them, “You have deprived me of my sons. Joseph is gone and Simeon is no more. Now you want to take Benjamin. Everything is going against me!”
- Genesis 45:25יַעֲקֹ֖ב · JacobSo the brothers went up out of Egypt and came to their father Jacob in the land of Canaan.
- Genesis 45:27יַעֲקֹ֥ב · JacobHowever, when they relayed all that Joseph had told them, and when he saw the wagons that Joseph had sent to carry him back, the spirit of their father Jacob was revived.