yaakov · Jacob

What it means

yaakov (יַעֲקֹב) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Jacob”.

The younger son of Isaac and Rebekah, twin brother of Esau and father of the twelve tribes. In Hebrew "Yaakov" sounds like "heel" and "supplant" (Genesis 25:26; 27:36). God later gave him the name Israel; the name also stands for his descendants, the people of Israel.

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

• Genesis×180
• Exodus×11
• Leviticus×1
• Numbers×9
• Deuteronomy×11
• Joshua×3
• 1 Samuel×1
• 2 Samuel×1
• 1 Kings×1
• 2 Kings×2
• 1 Chronicles×2
• Psalms×34
• Isaiah×42
• Jeremiah×16
• Lamentations×3
• Ezekiel×4
• Hosea×3
• Amos×6
• Obadiah×3
• Micah×11
• Nahum×1
• Malachi×4

• Genesis 25:26

  After that his brother came out, with his hand holding on to the heel of Esau, and he called his name Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when she bore them.

• Genesis 25:27

  The boys grew up, and Esau became a man skilled in hunting, a man of the field, while Jacob was a man of integrity, living in tents.

• Genesis 25:28

  Isaac loved Esau, because game was to his taste, but Rebekah loved Jacob.

• Genesis 25:29

  Jacob cooked a stew, and Esau came in from the field, and he was exhausted.

• Genesis 25:30

  Esau said to Jacob, “Please let me gulp down some of the red, this red stuff, for I am exhausted.” That is why his name was called Edom.

• Genesis 25:31

  Jacob said, “Sell me today your birthright.”

• Genesis 25:33

  Jacob said, “Swear to me today.” So he swore to him and sold his birthright to Jacob.

• Genesis 25:34

  Then Jacob gave Esau bread and lentil stew, and he ate and drank, rose, and went away. So Esau despised the birthright.

• Genesis 27:6

  Rebekah said to Jacob her son, “Look, I heard your father speaking to Esau your brother, saying,

• Genesis 27:11

  Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, “Look, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man.

• Genesis 27:15

  Then Rebekah took the best garments of Esau her older son, which were with her in the house, and put them on Jacob her younger son.

• Genesis 27:17

  She gave the tasty food and the bread that she had made into the hand of Jacob her son.

• Genesis 27:19

  Jacob said to his father, “I am Esau your firstborn. I have done as you told me. Get up, please, sit and eat of my game, so that you may bless me.”

• Genesis 27:21

  Isaac said to Jacob, “Come near, please, so that I may feel you, my son, to know whether you are really my son Esau or not.”

• Genesis 27:22

  Jacob came near to Isaac his father, and he felt him and said, “The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau.”

• Genesis 27:30

  As soon as Isaac had finished blessing Jacob, and Jacob had only just gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, Esau his brother came in from his hunting.

• Genesis 27:36

  He said, “Was he not rightly named Jacob? For he has supplanted me these two times: my birthright he took, and look, now he has taken my blessing.” And he said, “Have you not reserved for me a blessing?”

• Genesis 27:41

  Esau held a grudge against Jacob because of the blessing with which his father had blessed him, and Esau said in his heart, “The days of mourning for my father are approaching; then I will kill Jacob my brother.”

• Genesis 27:42

  The words of Esau her older son were told to Rebekah, and she sent and called Jacob her younger son and said to him, “Look, Esau your brother is consoling himself about you by planning to kill you.

• Genesis 27:46

  Rebekah said to Isaac, “I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth. If Jacob takes a wife from the daughters of Heth, like these, from the daughters of the land, what good is life to me?”

• Genesis 28:1

  Isaac called Jacob and blessed him and commanded him and said to him, “You shall not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan.

• Genesis 28:5

  So Isaac sent away Jacob, and he went to Paddan-aram, to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, the mother of Jacob and Esau.

• Genesis 28:6

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

• Genesis 28:7

  and that Jacob had listened to his father and to his mother and had gone to Paddan-aram.

• Genesis 28:10

  Jacob went out from Beersheba and went toward Haran.

• Genesis 28:16

  Jacob awoke from his sleep and said, “Surely YHWH is in this place, and I did not know it.”

• Genesis 28:18

  Jacob rose early in the morning, took the stone that he had put at his head, set it up as a standing stone, and poured oil on its top.

• Genesis 28:20

  Jacob made a vow, saying, “If Elohim is with me and keeps me on this way that I am going, and gives me bread to eat and clothing to wear,

• Genesis 29:1

  Jacob lifted up his feet and went to the land of the sons of the east.

• Genesis 29:4

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

• Genesis 29:10

  When Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban his mother’s brother, and the sheep of Laban his mother’s brother, Jacob came near and rolled the stone from the mouth of the well and watered the sheep of Laban his mother’s brother.

• Genesis 29:11

  Jacob kissed Rachel, and he lifted up his voice and wept.

• Genesis 29:12

  Jacob told Rachel that he was her father’s brother and that he was Rebekah’s son; and she ran and told her father.

• Genesis 29:13

  When Laban heard the news of Jacob his sister’s son, he ran to meet him, embraced him, kissed him, and brought him to his house. And he told Laban all these things.

• Genesis 29:15

  Laban said to Jacob, “Because you are my brother, should you serve me for nothing? Tell me what your wages should be.”

• Genesis 29:18

  Jacob loved Rachel, and he said, “I will serve you seven years for Rachel your younger daughter.”

• Genesis 29:20

  So Jacob served seven years for Rachel, and they were in his eyes like a few days because of his love for her.

• Genesis 29:21

  Jacob said to Laban, “Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, so that I may go in to her.”

• Genesis 29:28

  Jacob did so, and completed the week of this one; and he gave him Rachel his daughter as his wife.

• Genesis 30:1

  Rachel saw that she had not borne children to Jacob, and Rachel envied her sister and said to Jacob, “Give me children, or else I will die.”

And 309 more times.