Jabbok
The Jabbok, a river east of the Jordan, where Jacob wrestled with God.
The name Jabbok means “evacuation; dissipation; wrestling”
PlaceOld Testament5 books7 verses
Summary
A location first mentioned at Genesis 32:22; only referred to as Jabbok (יַבֹּק).
Location
- Identified as
- Zarqa River
- Certainty
- Widely agreed (100% of scholarship)
- Coordinates
- 32.115° N, 35.543° E
Glossary entries
Alternative names
- יַבֹּקJabbok
Mentions
- During the night Jacob got up and took his two wives, his two maidservants, and his eleven sons, and crossed the ford of the Jabbok.
- And Israel put him to the sword and took possession of his land, from the Arnon to the Jabbok—but only up to the border of the Ammonites, because it was fortified.
- But you did not go near the land of the Ammonites, or the land along the banks of the Jabbok River, or the cities of the hill country, or any place that the LORD our God had forbidden.
- …and to the Reubenites and Gadites I gave the territory from Gilead to the Arnon Valley (the middle of the valley was the border) and up to the Jabbok River, the border of the Ammonites.
- Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon. He ruled from Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Valley, along the middle of the valley, up to the Jabbok River (the border of the Ammonites), that is, half of Gilead,
- The king of the Ammonites answered Jephthah’s messengers, “When Israel came up out of Egypt, they seized my land, from the Arnon to the Jabbok and all the way to the Jordan. Now, therefore, restore it peaceably.”
- …seizing all the land from the Arnon to the Jabbok and from the wilderness to the Jordan.