Iakōb · Jacob

What it means

Iakōb (Ἰακώβ) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “Jacob”.

Son of Isaac, also called Israel; father of the twelve tribes.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Matthew×6
• Mark×1
• Luke×4
• John×3
• Acts×8
• Romans×2
• Hebrews×3

• Matthew 1:2

  Abraham fathered Isaac, and Isaac fathered Jacob, and Jacob fathered Judah and his brothers.

• Matthew 1:15

  And Eliud fathered Eleazar, and Eleazar fathered Matthan, and Matthan fathered Jacob.

• Matthew 1:16

  And Jacob fathered Joseph, the husband of Mary, from whom was born Jesus, the one called Messiah.

• Matthew 8:11

  And I tell you that many will come from east and west and sit at table with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven,

• Matthew 22:32

  ‘I am the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob’? He is not God of the dead, but of the living.”

• Mark 12:26

  But concerning the dead, that they are raised, have you not read in the book of Moses, at the bush, how God spoke to him, saying, ‘I am the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob’?

• Luke 1:33

  and he will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and of his kingdom there will be no end.”

• Luke 3:34

  son of Jacob, son of Isaac, son of Abraham, son of Terah, son of Nahor,

• Luke 13:28

  There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, but you being thrown out.

• Luke 20:37

  But that the dead are raised, even Moses showed, in the passage about the bush, when he calls the Lord the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.

• John 4:5

  So he comes to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of land that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.

• John 4:6

  Jacob’s well was there. So Jesus, tired from the journey, was sitting like that by the well. It was about the sixth hour.

• John 4:12

  Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, and his sons and his livestock?”

• Acts 3:13

  The God of Abraham and of Isaac and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified his servant Jesus, whom you handed over and denied in the presence of Pilate, when he had decided to release him.

• Acts 7:8

  And he gave him the covenant of circumcision; and so Abraham fathered Isaac and circumcised him on the eighth day, and Isaac fathered Jacob, and Jacob the twelve patriarchs.

• Acts 7:12

  But when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent out our fathers the first time.

• Acts 7:14

  And Joseph sent and summoned Jacob his father and all his relatives, seventy-five persons.

• Acts 7:15

  And Jacob went down to Egypt, and he died, and our fathers too,

• Acts 7:32

  ‘I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham and of Isaac and of Jacob.’ And Moses, becoming terrified, did not dare to look.

• Acts 7:46

  who found favor before God and asked to find a dwelling place for the God of Jacob.

• Romans 9:13

  As it is written: Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.

• Romans 11:26

  and so all Israel will be saved, as it is written: The Deliverer will come from Zion, he will turn away ungodliness from Jacob;

• Hebrews 11:9

  By faith he lived as a resident alien in the land of the promise as in a foreign land, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the fellow heirs of the same promise;

• Hebrews 11:20

  By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau even regarding things to come.

• Hebrews 11:21

  By faith Jacob, when he was dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph, and worshiped leaning on the top of his staff.

And 2 more times.