Hebrew

Jacob

יַעֲקֹבStrong’s H3290

yaaqov (ya-a-qov)

Appears in 320 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Yaaqov is the Hebrew word usually translated “jacob”, “o jacob” and “from jacob”. It appears in 320 verses of the Old Testament.

“And after that came his brother out, and his hand took hold on Esau’s heel; and his name was called Jacob: and Isaac was threescore years old when she bare them.”

Genesis 25:26 KJV

Meaning

A man living at the time of the Patriarchs, first mentioned at Gen.25.26

How it's translated

jacob 266
to jacob 31
and jacob 15
o jacob 11
and to jacob 10
in jacob 8
of jacob 3
from jacob 3

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

Where it's used most

Genesis 160
Isaiah 40
Psalms 34
Jeremiah 13
Exodus 11
Deuteronomy 11

22 books in all.

Related words

Explore in Scripture

All 320 verses, by book

Genesis 160: 25:26 25:27 25:28 25:29 25:30 25:31 25:33 25:34 27:6 27:11 27:15 27:17 27:19 27:21 27:22 27:30 27:36 27:41 27:42 27:46 28:1 28:5 28:6 28:7 28:10 28:16 28:18 28:20 29:1 29:4 29:10 29:11 29:12 29:13 29:15 29:18 29:20 29:21 29:28 30:1 30:2 30:4 30:5 30:7 30:9 30:10 30:12 30:16 30:17 30:19 30:25 30:31 30:36 30:37 30:40 30:41 30:42 31:1 31:2 31:3 31:4 31:11 31:17 31:20 31:22 31:24 31:25 31:26 31:29 31:31 31:32 31:33 31:36 31:43 31:45 31:46 31:47 31:51 31:53 31:54 32:1 32:2 32:3 32:4 32:6 32:7 32:9 32:18 32:20 32:24 32:25 32:27 32:28 32:29 32:30 32:32 33:1 33:10 33:17 33:18 33:20 34:1 34:3 34:5 34:6 34:7 34:13 34:19 34:25 34:27 34:30 35:1 35:2 35:4 35:5 35:6 35:9 35:10 35:14 35:15 35:20 35:22 35:23 35:26 35:27 35:29 36:6 37:1 37:2 37:34 42:1 42:4 42:29 42:36 45:25 45:27 46:2 46:5 46:6 46:8 46:15 46:18 46:19 46:22 46:25 46:26 46:27 47:7 47:8 47:9 47:10 47:28 48:2 48:3 49:1 49:2 49:7 49:24 49:33 50:24
Exodus 11: 1:1 1:5 2:24 3:6 3:15 3:16 4:5 6:3 6:8 19:3 33:1
Leviticus 1: 26:42
Numbers 8: 23:7 23:10 23:21 23:23 24:5 24:17 24:19 32:11
Deuteronomy 11: 1:8 6:10 9:5 9:27 29:13 30:20 32:9 33:4 33:10 33:28 34:4
Joshua 2: 24:4 24:32
1 Samuel 1: 12:8
2 Samuel 1: 23:1
1 Kings 1: 18:31
2 Kings 2: 13:23 17:34
1 Chronicles 2: 16:13 16:17
Psalms 34: 14:7 20:1 22:23 24:6 44:4 46:7 46:11 47:4 53:6 59:13 75:9 76:6 77:15 78:5 78:21 78:71 79:7 81:1 81:4 84:8 85:1 87:2 94:7 99:4 105:6 105:10 105:23 114:1 114:7 132:2 132:5 135:4 146:5 147:19
Isaiah 40: 2:3 2:5 2:6 8:17 9:8 10:20 10:21 14:1 17:4 27:6 27:9 29:22 29:23 40:27 41:8 41:14 41:21 42:24 43:1 43:22 43:28 44:1 44:2 44:5 44:21 44:23 45:4 45:19 46:3 48:1 48:12 48:20 49:5 49:6 49:26 58:1 58:14 59:20 60:16 65:9
Jeremiah 13: 2:4 5:20 10:16 10:25 30:7 30:10 30:18 31:7 31:11 33:26 46:27 46:28 51:19
Lamentations 3: 1:17 2:2 2:3
Ezekiel 4: 20:5 28:25 37:25 39:25
Hosea 3: 10:11 12:2 12:12
Amos 6: 3:13 6:8 7:2 7:5 8:7 9:8
Obadiah 3: 1:10 1:17 1:18
Micah 10: 1:5 2:7 2:12 3:1 3:8 3:9 4:2 5:7 5:8 7:20
Nahum 1: 2:2
Malachi 3: 1:2 2:12 3:6

Hebrew dictionary

יַעֲקֹב yaaqov · Jacob

A man living at the time of the Patriarchs, first mentioned at Gen.25.26; son of: Isaac (H3327) and Rebekah (H7259); brother of: Esau (H6215); married to Rachel (H7354), Leah (H3812), Zilpah (H2153) and Bilhah (H1090A); father of: Reuben (H7205), Simeon (H8095), Levi (H3878), Judah (H3063), Dan (H1835H), Naphtali (H5321), Gad (H1410), Asher (H0836), Issachar (H3485), Zebulun (H2074), Dinah (H1783), Joseph (H3130) and Benjamin (H1144); also called Jacob frequently Another name of yis.ra.el (יִשְׂרָאֵל "Israel" H3478) § Jacob = "heel holder" or "supplanter" …

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.