Jabbok
יַבֹּקStrong’s H2999yabboq (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.”
Meaning
- § 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
- Numbers 21:24And Israel smote him with the edge of the sword, and possessed his land from Arnon unto Jabbok, even unto the children of Ammon: for the border of the children of Ammon was strong.
- Deuteronomy 2:37Only unto the land of the children of Ammon thou camest not, nor unto any place of the river Jabbok, nor unto the cities in the mountains, nor unto whatsoever the LORD our God forbad us.
- Deuteronomy 3:16And unto the Reubenites and unto the Gadites I gave from Gilead even unto the river Arnon half the valley, and the border even unto the river Jabbok, which is the border of the children of Ammon;
- Joshua 12:2Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt in Heshbon, and ruled from Aroer, which is upon the bank of the river Arnon, and from the middle of the river, and from half Gilead, even unto the river Jabbok, which is the border of the children of Ammon;
- Judges 11:13And the king of the children of Ammon answered unto the messengers of Jephthah, Because Israel took away my land, when they came up out of Egypt, from Arnon even unto Jabbok, and unto Jordan: now therefore restore those lands again peaceably.
- Judges 11:22And they possessed all the coasts of the Amorites, from Arnon even unto Jabbok, and from the wilderness even unto Jordan.
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.