NASB20

NASB20

Click to Change

Return to Top

Return to Top

Printer Icon

Print

Copy
Copy Options
Strong's
Red Letter
Copy Options
Cite Print
The Blue Letter Bible

Lexicon :: Strong's H3290 - yaʿăqōḇ

Choose a new font size and typeface
יַעֲקֹב
Transliteration
yaʿăqōḇ
Pronunciation
yah-ak-obe'
Listen
Part of Speech
proper masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Strong’s Definitions

יַעֲקֹב Yaʻăqôb, yah-ak-obe'; from H6117; heel-catcher (i.e. supplanter); Jaakob, the Israelitish patriarch:—Jacob.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 349x

The KJV translates Strong's H3290 in the following manner: Jacob (349x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 349x
The KJV translates Strong's H3290 in the following manner: Jacob (349x).
  1. Jacob = "heel holder" or "supplanter"

    1. son of Isaac, grandson of Abraham, and father of the 12 patriarchs of the tribes of Israel

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
יַעֲקֹב Yaʻăqôb, yah-ak-obe'; from H6117; heel-catcher (i.e. supplanter); Jaakob, the Israelitish patriarch:—Jacob.
STRONGS H3290: Abbreviations
יַּעֲקב 344, יַעֲקוֺב 5 proper name, masculine and of a people Jacob, Ιακωβ, son of Isaac and Rebekah, father of tribes of Israel (explanation from עָקֵב heel Genesis 25:26; Hosea 12:4; i.e. supplanter; compare with עָקַב overreach Genesis 27:36; one closely following according to LagBN 127; connection with Palestinian city (?) called in Egyptian Y‘kb’ara (i.e. יַעֲקֹבאֵֿל) is obscure; compare MeyZAW vi.1 ff. WMMAs. u. Eur. 162 ff. JenZA x(1895-6), 347 ff.; see also Babylonian proper name, masculine Ya‘ḳubilu, Pinches in HomAHT 61, 96, 112; hence OT יַעֲקֹב perhaps originally יעקבקל or the like. compare Palmyrene proper name בלעקב, עתעקב); — יַעֲקוֺב Jeremiah 30:18 + 3 times Jeremiah Leviticus 26:42; יַעֲקֹב + 215 times Hexateuch (chiefly J E; + 180 times Genesis, once Leviticus, etc.), + 34 times Psalms, + 42 times Isaiah (27 times Isaiah 40-66), etc.; —
1. as proper name, masculine Genesis 25:26 + 205 times (+ אַבְרָהָם, יִצְחָק + 19 times); also בֵּית יַע׳ of people (see בַּיִת 5d (γ)), בְּנֵי יַע׳ (see בֵּן 1 j (β)), זֶרַע יַע׳ (see זֶרַע 4 f), עֵין יַע׳ (see עַיִן), etc.
2. as proper name, of a people (approximately + 100 times; poetry and prophets) Numbers 24:5, 19; Deuteronomy 32:9; Psalm 44:5; Isaiah 10:21; Isaiah 17:4; Jeremiah 10:25; Jeremiah 30:7 +; || יִשְׂרָאֵל Numbers 23:7; Deuteronomy 33:10; Isaiah 14:1; Psalm 14:7 + approximately + 35 times; specifically of Northern Israel Amos 7:2, 5; Hosea 12:13 (+ Hosea 10:11; Hosea 12:3 probably, see Now), Micah 1:5 (twice in verse); Isaiah 9:7; of Judah Micah 3:1, 8; Obadiah 10; Isaiah 65:9; Malachi 2:12 + others post-exilic; גְּאוֺן יַע׳ see גָּאוֺן; אֵל יַע׳ Psalm 146:5, אֱלוֺהַּ יַע׳ Psalm 114:7; אֱלֹהֵי יַע׳ 2 Samuel 23:1; Isaiah 2:3 = Micah 4:2 +9 times Psalms + Psalm 24:6 (יַע׳ א׳ for MT יַע׳ alone), so Greek Version of the LXX Syriac Version Vulgate Ew Ol Hup Bae We Che and others; read יַע׳ א׳ also probably 2 Samuel 23:2 (for יִשׂ׳ א׳, || צוּר יִשׂ׳) Vulgate HPS; קְדוֺשׁ יַע׳ Isaiah 29:23 (|| יִשׂ׳ א׳); מֶלֶךְ יַע׳ Isaiah 41:21 (|| יהוה). — On יַעֲקֹב see especially Dr 'Jacob' in HastingsDict. Bib. ii. 526 ff.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
Copyright © 2002, 2003, 2006 by Biblesoft, Inc.
All rights reserved. Used by permission. BibleSoft.com

BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

25:26; 25:26; 27:36

Leviticus

26:42

Numbers

23:7; 24:5; 24:19

Deuteronomy

32:9; 33:10

2 Samuel

23:1; 23:2

Psalms

14:7; 24:6; 44:5; 114:7; 146:5

Isaiah

2:3; 9:7; 10:21; 14:1; 17:4; 29:23; 41:21; 65:9

Jeremiah

10:25; 30:7; 30:18

Hosea

10:11; 12:3; 12:4; 12:13

Amos

7:2; 7:5

Obadiah

1:10

Micah

1:5; 3:1; 3:8; 4:2

Malachi

2:12

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H3290 matches the Hebrew יַעֲקֹב (yaʿăqōḇ),
which occurs 349 times in 319 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 7 (Gen 25:26–Gen 30:19)

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:26 - Afterward his brother came out with his hand holding on to Esau’s heel, so he was named [fn]Jacob H3290; and Isaac was sixty years old when she gave birth to them.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:27 -

When the boys grew up, Esau became a skillful hunter, a man of the field; but Jacob H3290 was a [fn]civilized man, living in tents.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:28 - Now Isaac loved Esau because [fn]he had a taste for game; but Rebekah loved Jacob H3290.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:29 - When Jacob H3290 had cooked a stew one day, Esau came in from the field and he was exhausted;
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:30 - and Esau said to Jacob H3290, “Please let me have a mouthful of [fn]that red stuff there, for I am exhausted.” Therefore he was called [fn]Edom by name.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:31 - But Jacob H3290 said, “[fn]First sell me your birthright.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:33 - And Jacob H3290 said, “[fn]First swear to me”; so he swore an oath to him, and sold his birthright to Jacob H3290.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:34 - Then Jacob H3290 gave Esau bread and lentil stew; and he ate and drank, and got up and went on his way. So Esau despised his birthright.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:6 - Rebekah said to her son Jacob H3290, “Behold, I heard your father speak to your brother Esau, saying,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:11 - But Jacob H3290 said to his mother Rebekah, “Behold, my brother Esau is a hairy man and I am a smooth man.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:15 - Then Rebekah took the [fn]best garments of her elder son Esau, which were with her in the house, and put them on her younger son Jacob H3290.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:17 - She also gave the delicious meal and the bread which she had made [fn]to her son Jacob H3290.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:19 - Jacob H3290 said to his father, “I am Esau your firstborn; I have done as you told me. Come now, sit and eat of my game, so that [fn]you may bless me.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:21 - Then Isaac said to Jacob H3290, “Please come close, so that I may feel you, my son, whether you are really my son Esau or not.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:22 - So Jacob H3290 came close to his father Isaac, and he touched him and said, “The voice is the voice of Jacob H3290, but the hands are the hands of Esau.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:30 -

Now it came about, as soon as Isaac had finished blessing Jacob H3290, and Jacob H3290 had hardly gone out from the presence of his father Isaac, that his brother Esau came in from his hunting.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:36 - Then Esau said, “[fn]Is he not rightly named [fn]Jacob H3290, for he has betrayed me these two times? He took away my birthright, and behold, now he has taken away my blessing.” And he said, “Have you not reserved a blessing for me?”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:41 -

So Esau held a grudge against Jacob H3290 because of the blessing with which his father had blessed him; and Esau said [fn]to himself, “The days of mourning for my father are near; then I will kill my brother Jacob H3290.”

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:42 - Now when the words of her elder son Esau were reported to Rebekah, she sent word and called her younger son Jacob H3290, and said to him, “Behold your brother Esau is consoling himself concerning you by planning to kill you.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:46 -

And Rebekah said to Isaac, “I am tired of [fn]living because of the daughters of Heth; if Jacob H3290 takes a wife from the daughters of Heth like these from the daughters of the land, what good will my life be to me?”

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:1 -

So Isaac called Jacob H3290 and blessed him and commanded him, [fn]saying to him, “You shall not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:5 - Then Isaac sent Jacob H3290 away, and he went to Paddan-aram to Laban, son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, the mother of Jacob H3290 and Esau.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:6 -

Now Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob H3290 and sent him away to Paddan-aram to take to himself a wife from there, and that when he blessed him he commanded him, saying, “You shall not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan,”

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:7 - and that Jacob H3290 had obeyed his father and his mother and had gone to Paddan-aram.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:10 -

Then Jacob H3290 departed from Beersheba and went toward Haran.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:16 - Then Jacob H3290 awoke from his sleep and said, “The LORD is certainly in this place, and I did not know it!”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:18 -

So Jacob H3290 got up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had placed as a support for his head, and set it up as a memorial stone, and poured oil on its top.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:20 - Jacob H3290 also made a vow, saying, “If God will be with me and will keep me on this journey that I [fn]take, and give me [fn]food to eat and garments to wear,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:1 -

Then Jacob H3290 [fn]set out on his journey, and went to the land of the [fn]people of the east.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:4 -

Jacob H3290 said to them, “My brothers, where are you from?” And they said, “We are from Haran.”

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:10 - When Jacob H3290 saw Rachel the daughter of his mother’s brother Laban, and the sheep of his mother’s brother Laban, Jacob H3290 went up and rolled the stone from the mouth of the well, and watered the flock of his mother’s brother Laban.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:11 - Then Jacob H3290 kissed Rachel, and raised his voice and wept.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:12 - Jacob H3290 told Rachel that he was a relative of her father and that he was Rebekah’s son, and she ran and told her father.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:13 -

So when Laban heard the news about Jacob H3290, his sister’s son, he ran to meet him, and embraced him and kissed him, and brought him to his house. Then he told Laban all these things.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:15 -

Then Laban said to Jacob H3290, “Because you are my relative, should you therefore serve me for nothing? Tell me, what shall your wages be?”

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:18 - Now Jacob H3290 loved Rachel, so he said, “I will serve you seven years for your younger daughter Rachel.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:20 - So Jacob H3290 served seven years for Rachel, and they seemed to him like only a few days because of his love for her.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:21 -

Then Jacob H3290 said to Laban, “Give me my wife, for my [fn]time is completed, that I may have relations with her.”

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:28 - Jacob H3290 did so and completed her week, and he gave him his daughter Rachel as his wife.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:1 -

Now when Rachel saw that she had not borne Jacob H3290 any children, [fn]she became jealous of her sister; and she said to Jacob H3290, “Give me children, or else I am going to die.”

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:2 - Then Jacob’s H3290 anger burned against Rachel, and he said, “Am I in the place of God, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:4 - So she gave him her slave Bilhah as a wife, and Jacob H3290 had relations with her.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:5 - Bilhah conceived and bore Jacob H3290 a son.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:7 - And Rachel’s slave Bilhah conceived again and bore Jacob H3290 a second son.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:9 -

When Leah saw that she had stopped having children, she took her slave Zilpah and gave her to Jacob H3290 as a wife.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:10 - And Leah’s slave Zilpah bore Jacob H3290 a son.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:12 - And Leah’s slave Zilpah bore Jacob H3290 a second son.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:16 - When Jacob H3290 came in from the field in the evening, Leah went out to meet him and said, “You must have relations with me, for I have indeed hired you with my son’s mandrakes.” So he slept with her that night.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:17 - God listened to Leah, and she conceived and bore Jacob H3290 a fifth son.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:19 - And Leah conceived again and bore a sixth son to Jacob H3290.

BLB Notice
BLB Services Alert

Some of BLB's resources have been impacted by Hurricane Helene, affecting the delivery of Daily Devotional emails to subscribers. Local personnel are working on restoring services as quickly as possible. We appreciate your patience and prayers during this time.

BLB Searches
Search the Bible
NASB20
 [?]

Advanced Options

Other Searches

Multi-Verse Retrieval
x
NASB20

Daily Devotionals
x

Blue Letter Bible offers several daily devotional readings in order to help you refocus on Christ and the Gospel of His peace and righteousness.

Daily Bible Reading Plans
x

Recognizing the value of consistent reflection upon the Word of God in order to refocus one's mind and heart upon Christ and His Gospel of peace, we provide several reading plans designed to cover the entire Bible in a year.

One-Year Plans

Two-Year Plan

Genesis Chapter 1 — Additional Translations: