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Jabbok

יַבֹּקStrong’s H2999

yabboq (yab-boq)

Appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Yabboq is the Hebrew word usually translated “jabbok”. It appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament.

“And he rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two womenservants, and his eleven sons, and passed over the ford Jabbok.”
Genesis 32:22 KJV
Meaning
  1. § Jabbok = "emptying"
How it's translated
  • jabbok 5
  • the jabbok 2

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Deuteronomy 2
  • Judges 2
  • Genesis 1
  • Numbers 1
  • Joshua 1

5 books in all.

Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary

יַבֹּק yabboq · Jabbok

§ Jabbok = "emptying" a stream which intersects the mountain range of Gilead, and falls into the Jordan on the east about midway between the Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.