יַבֹּק
yabok · Jabbok
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H2999 · appears 7 times in the Bible
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yabok (יַבֹּק) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Jabbok”.
A river that flows into the Jordan from the east. Its name sounds like "wrestle" (yeabeq).
How to say it
ya·bok
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.
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Where it appears
- Genesis 32:22
He rose that night and took his two wives, his two slave women, and his eleven children, and crossed the ford of the Jabbok.
- Numbers 21:24
And Israel struck him with the edge of the sword and took possession of his land from the Arnon to the Jabbok, as far as the sons of Ammon; for the border of the sons of Ammon was strong.
- Deuteronomy 2:37
Only to the land of the sons of Ammon you did not come near, all the bank of the Wadi Jabbok, and the cities of the hill country, and all that YHWH our Elohim had commanded.
- Deuteronomy 3:16
To the Reubenites and to the Gadites I gave from Gilead as far as the Wadi Arnon, the middle of the wadi as the border, and as far as the Wadi Jabbok, the border of the sons of Ammon;
- Joshua 12:2
Sihon king of the Amorite, who lived in Heshbon, ruling from Aroer, which is on the edge of the brook Arnon, and the middle of the brook, and half of Gilead, as far as the brook Jabbok, the border of the sons of Ammon;
- Judges 11:13
The king of the sons of Ammon said to the messengers of Jephthah, “Because Israel took my land when it came up from Egypt, from the Arnon to the Jabbok and to the Jordan; now therefore return them in peace.”
- Judges 11:22
They took possession of all the territory of the Amorite, from the Arnon to the Jabbok, and from the wilderness to the Jordan.