יַעֲקֹב
ya.a.qov
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"
son of Isaac, grandson of Abraham, and father of the 12 patriarchs of the tribes of Israel
Lexicon: STEPBible Tyndale House Brief Lexicons (TBESH / TBESG) (CC BY 4.0)
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Concordance 319 verses
- Genesis 30:25 יַעֲקֹב֙
Now after Rachel had given birth to Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, “Send me on my way so I can return to my homeland.
- Genesis 30:31 יַעֲקֹב֙
“What can I give you?” Laban asked. “You do not need to give me anything,” Jacob replied. “If you do this one thing for me, I will keep on shepherding and keeping your flocks.
- Genesis 30:36 יַעֲקֹ֑בוְיַעֲקֹ֗ב
Then he put a three-day journey between himself and Jacob, while Jacob was shepherding the rest of Laban’s flocks.
- Genesis 30:37 יַעֲקֹ֗ב
Jacob, however, took fresh branches of poplar, almond, and plane trees, and peeled the bark, exposing the white inner wood of the branches.
- Genesis 30:40 יַעֲקֹב֒
Jacob set apart the young, but made the rest face the streaked dark-colored sheep in Laban’s flocks. Then he set his own stock apart and did not put them with Laban’s animals.
- Genesis 30:41 יַעֲקֹ֧ב
Whenever the stronger females of the flock were in heat, Jacob would place the branches in the troughs, in full view of the animals, so that they would breed in front of the branches.
- Genesis 30:42 לְיַעֲקֹֽב׃
But if the animals were weak, he did not set out the branches. So the weaker animals went to Laban and the stronger ones to Jacob.
- Genesis 31:1 יַעֲקֹ֔ב
Now Jacob heard that Laban’s sons were saying, “Jacob has taken away all that belonged to our father and built all this wealth at our father’s expense.”
- Genesis 31:2 יַעֲקֹ֖ב
And Jacob saw from the countenance of Laban that his attitude toward him had changed.
- Genesis 31:3 יַעֲקֹ֔ב
Then the LORD said to Jacob, “Go back to the land of your fathers and to your kindred, and I will be with you.”
- Genesis 31:4 יַעֲקֹ֔ב
So Jacob sent word and called Rachel and Leah to the field where his flocks were,
- Genesis 31:11 יַֽעֲקֹ֑ב
In that dream the angel of God said to me, ‘Jacob!’ And I replied, ‘Here I am.’
- Genesis 31:17 יַעֲקֹ֑ב
Then Jacob got up and put his children and his wives on camels,
- Genesis 31:20 יַעֲקֹ֔ב
Moreover, Jacob deceived Laban the Aramean by not telling him that he was running away.
- Genesis 31:22 יַעֲקֹֽב׃
On the third day Laban was informed that Jacob had fled.
- Genesis 31:24 יַעֲקֹ֖ב
But that night God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream and warned him, “Be careful not to say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.”
- Genesis 31:25 יַעֲקֹ֑בוְיַעֲקֹ֗ב
Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the hill country of Gilead when Laban overtook him, and Laban and his relatives camped there as well.
- Genesis 31:26 לְיַעֲקֹ֔ב
Then Laban said to Jacob, “What have you done? You have deceived me and carried off my daughters like captives of war!
- Genesis 31:29 יַעֲקֹ֖ב
I have power to do you great harm, but last night the God of your father said to me, ‘Be careful not to say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.’
- Genesis 31:31 יַעֲקֹ֖ב
“I was afraid,” Jacob answered, “for I thought you would take your daughters from me by force.
- Genesis 31:32 יַעֲקֹ֔ב
If you find your gods with anyone here, he shall not live! In the presence of our relatives, see for yourself if anything is yours, and take it back.” For Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen the idols.
- Genesis 31:33 יַעֲקֹ֣ב׀
So Laban went into Jacob’s tent, then Leah’s tent, and then the tents of the two maidservants, but he found nothing. Then he left Leah’s tent and entered Rachel’s tent.
- Genesis 31:36 לְיַעֲקֹ֖ביַעֲקֹב֙
Then Jacob became incensed and challenged Laban. “What is my crime?” he said. “For what sin of mine have you so hotly pursued me?
- Genesis 31:43 יַעֲקֹ֗ב
But Laban answered Jacob, “These daughters are my daughters, these sons are my sons, and these flocks are my flocks! Everything you see is mine! Yet what can I do today about these daughters of mine or the children they have borne?
- Genesis 31:45 יַעֲקֹ֖ב
So Jacob picked out a stone and set it up as a pillar,
- Genesis 31:46 יַעֲקֹ֤ב
and he said to his relatives, “Gather some stones.” So they took stones and made a mound, and there by the mound they ate.
- Genesis 31:47 וְיַֽעֲקֹ֔ב
Laban called it Jegar-sahadutha, and Jacob called it Galeed.
- Genesis 31:51 לְיַעֲקֹ֑ב
Laban also said to Jacob, “Here is the mound, and here is the pillar I have set up between you and me.
- Genesis 31:53 יַעֲקֹ֔ב
May the God of Abraham and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us.” So Jacob swore by the Fear of his father Isaac.
- Genesis 31:54 יַעֲקֹ֥ב
Then Jacob offered a sacrifice on the mountain and invited his relatives to eat a meal. And after they had eaten, they spent the night on the mountain.
- Genesis 32:1 וְיַעֲקֹ֖ב
Jacob also went on his way, and the angels of God met him.
- Genesis 32:2 יַעֲקֹב֙
When Jacob saw them, he said, “This is the camp of God.” So he named that place Mahanaim.
- Genesis 32:3 יַעֲקֹ֤ב
Jacob sent messengers ahead of him to his brother Esau in the land of Seir, the country of Edom.
- Genesis 32:4 יַעֲקֹ֔ב
He instructed them, “You are to say to my master Esau, ‘Your servant Jacob says: I have been staying with Laban and have remained there until now.
- Genesis 32:6 יַעֲקֹ֖ב
When the messengers returned to Jacob, they said, “We went to your brother Esau, and now he is coming to meet you—he and four hundred men with him.”
- Genesis 32:7 יַעֲקֹ֛ב
In great fear and distress, Jacob divided his people into two camps, as well as the flocks and herds and camels.
- Genesis 32:9 יַעֲקֹב֒
Then Jacob declared, “O God of my father Abraham, God of my father Isaac, the LORD who told me, ‘Go back to your country and to your kindred, and I will make you prosper,’
- Genesis 32:18 לְיַעֲקֹ֔ב
then you are to say, ‘They belong to your servant Jacob. They are a gift, sent to my lord Esau. And behold, Jacob is behind us.’”
- Genesis 32:20 יַעֲקֹ֖ב
You are also to say, ‘Look, your servant Jacob is right behind us.’” For he thought, “I will appease Esau with the gift that is going before me. After that I can face him, and perhaps he will accept me.”
- Genesis 32:24 יַעֲקֹ֖ב
So Jacob was left all alone, and there a man wrestled with him until daybreak.
- Genesis 32:25 יַעֲקֹ֔ב
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 32:27 יַעֲקֹֽב׃
“What is your name?” the man asked. “Jacob,” he replied.
- Genesis 32:28 יַעֲקֹב֙
Then 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 32:29 יַעֲקֹ֗ב
And Jacob requested, “Please tell me your name.” But he replied, “Why do you ask my name?” Then he blessed Jacob there.
- Genesis 32:30 יַעֲקֹ֛ב
So Jacob named the place Peniel, saying, “Indeed, I have seen God face to face, and yet my life was spared.”
- Genesis 32:32 יַעֲקֹ֔ב
Therefore to this day the Israelites do not eat the tendon which is at the socket of the hip, because the socket of Jacob’s hip was struck near that tendon.
- Genesis 33:1 יַעֲקֹ֜ב
Now 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 33:10 יַעֲקֹ֗ב
But 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 33:17 וְיַעֲקֹב֙
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 33:18 יַעֲקֹ֨ב
After 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.