יַעֲקֹב Yaʻăqôb
Meaning
Jaakob, the Israelitish patriarch
In the King James Version: Jacob.
Derivation: from H6117 (עָקַב); heel-catcher (i.e. supplanter);
Where it is used
- Deuteronomy 1:8 See, I have placed the land before you. Enter and possess the land that the LORD swore He would give to your fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and to their descendants after them.”
- Deuteronomy 6:10 And when the LORD your God brings you into the land He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, that He would give you—a land with great and splendid cities that you did not build,
- Deuteronomy 9:5 It is not because of your righteousness or uprightness of heart that you are going in to possess their land, but it is because of their wickedness that the LORD your God is driving out these nations before you, to keep the promise He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
- Deuteronomy 9:27 Remember Your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Overlook the stubbornness of this people and the wickedness of their sin.
- Deuteronomy 29:13 and so that He may establish you today as His people, and He may be your God as He promised you and as He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
- Deuteronomy 30:20 and that you may love the LORD your God, obey Him, and hold fast to Him. For He is your life, and He will prolong your life in the land that the LORD swore to give to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.”
- Deuteronomy 32:9 But the LORD’s portion is His people, Jacob His allotted inheritance.
- Deuteronomy 33:4 the law that Moses gave us, the possession of the assembly of Jacob.
- Deuteronomy 33:10 He will teach Your ordinances to Jacob and Your law to Israel; he will set incense before You and whole burnt offerings on Your altar.
- Deuteronomy 33:28 So Israel dwells securely; the fountain of Jacob lives untroubled in a land of grain and new wine, where even the heavens drip with dew.
- Deuteronomy 34:4 And the LORD said to him, “This is the land that I swore to give Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob when I said, ‘I will give it to your descendants.’ I have let you see it with your own eyes, but you will not cross into it.”
- Joshua 24:4 and to Isaac I gave Jacob and Esau. I gave Esau Mount Seir to possess, but Jacob and his sons went down to Egypt.
- Joshua 24:32 And the bones of Joseph, which the Israelites had brought up out of Egypt, were buried at Shechem in the plot of land that Jacob had purchased from the sons of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for a hundred pieces of silver. So it became an inheritance for Joseph’s descendants.
- 1 Samuel 12:8 When Jacob went to Egypt, your fathers cried out to the LORD, and He sent them Moses and Aaron, who brought your fathers out of Egypt and settled them in this place.
- 2 Samuel 23:1 These are the last words of David: “The oracle of David son of Jesse, the oracle of the man raised on high, the one anointed by the God of Jacob, and the sweet psalmist of Israel:
- 1 Kings 18:31 And Elijah took twelve stones, one for each tribe of the sons of Jacob, to whom the word of the LORD had come and said, “Israel shall be your name.”
- 2 Kings 13:23 But the LORD was gracious to Israel and had compassion on them, and He turned toward them because of His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. And to this day, the LORD has been unwilling to destroy them or cast them from His presence.
- 2 Kings 17:34 To this day they are still practicing their former customs. None of them worship the LORD or observe the statutes, ordinances, laws, and commandments that the LORD gave the descendants of Jacob, whom He named Israel.
- 1 Chronicles 16:13 O offspring of His servant Israel, O sons of Jacob, His chosen ones.
- 1 Chronicles 16:17 He confirmed it to Jacob as a decree, to Israel as an everlasting covenant:
- Psalms 14:7 Oh, that the salvation of Israel would come from Zion! When the LORD restores His captive people, let Jacob rejoice, let Israel be glad!
- Psalms 20:1 For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. May the LORD answer you in the day of trouble; may the name of the God of Jacob protect you.
- Psalms 22:23 You who fear the LORD, praise Him! All descendants of Jacob, honor Him! All offspring of Israel, revere Him!
- Psalms 24:6 Such is the generation of those who seek Him, who seek Your face, O God of Jacob. Selah
- Psalms 44:4 You are my King, O God, who ordains victories for Jacob.
- Psalms 46:7 The LORD of Hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our fortress. Selah
- Psalms 46:11 The LORD of Hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our fortress. Selah
- Psalms 47:4 He chooses our inheritance for us, the pride of Jacob, whom He loves. Selah
- Psalms 53:6 Oh, that the salvation of Israel would come from Zion! When God restores His captive people, let Jacob rejoice, let Israel be glad!
- Psalms 59:13 Consume them in wrath; consume them till they are no more, so it may be known to the ends of the earth that God rules over Jacob. Selah
- Psalms 75:9 But I will proclaim Him forever; I will sing praise to the God of Jacob.
- Psalms 76:6 At Your rebuke, O God of Jacob, both horse and rider lie stunned.
- Psalms 77:15 With power You redeemed Your people, the sons of Jacob and Joseph. Selah
- Psalms 78:5 For He established a testimony in Jacob and appointed a law in Israel, which He commanded our fathers to teach to their children,
- Psalms 78:21 Therefore the LORD heard and was filled with wrath; so a fire was kindled against Jacob, and His anger flared against Israel,
- Psalms 78:71 from tending the ewes He brought him to be shepherd of His people Jacob, of Israel His inheritance.
- Psalms 79:7 for they have devoured Jacob and devastated his homeland.
- Psalms 81:1 For the choirmaster. According to Gittith. Of Asaph. Sing for joy to God our strength; make a joyful noise to the God of Jacob.
- Psalms 81:4 For this is a statute for Israel, an ordinance of the God of Jacob.
- Psalms 84:8 O LORD God of Hosts, hear my prayer; give ear, O God of Jacob. Selah
- Psalms 85:1 For the choirmaster. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. You showed favor to Your land, O LORD; You restored Jacob from captivity.
- Psalms 87:2 The LORD loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.
- Psalms 94:7 They say, “The LORD does not see; the God of Jacob pays no heed.”
- Psalms 99:4 The mighty King loves justice. You have established equity; You have exercised justice and righteousness in Jacob.
- Psalms 105:6 O offspring of His servant Abraham, O sons of Jacob, His chosen ones.
- Psalms 105:10 He confirmed it to Jacob as a decree, to Israel as an everlasting covenant:
- Psalms 105:23 Then Israel entered Egypt; Jacob dwelt in the land of Ham.
- Psalms 114:1 When Israel departed from Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of foreign tongue,
- Psalms 114:7 Tremble, O earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob,
- Psalms 132:2 how he swore an oath to the LORD, and vowed to the Mighty One of Jacob:
- Psalms 132:5 until I find a place for the LORD, a dwelling for the Mighty One of Jacob.”
- Psalms 135:4 For the LORD has chosen Jacob as His own, Israel as His treasured possession.
- Psalms 146:5 Blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the LORD his God,
- Psalms 147:19 He declares His word to Jacob, His statutes and judgments to Israel.
- Isaiah 2:3 And many peoples will come and say: “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob. He will teach us His ways so that we may walk in His paths.” For the law will go forth from Zion, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
- Isaiah 2:5 Come, O house of Jacob, let us walk in the light of the LORD.
- Isaiah 2:6 For You have abandoned Your people, the house of Jacob, because they are filled with influences from the east; they are soothsayers like the Philistines; they strike hands with the children of foreigners.
- Isaiah 8:17 I will wait for the LORD, who is hiding His face from the house of Jacob. I will put my trust in Him.
- Isaiah 9:8 The Lord has sent a message against Jacob, and it has fallen upon Israel.
- Isaiah 10:20 On that day the remnant of Israel and the survivors of the house of Jacob will no longer depend on him who struck them, but they will truly rely on the LORD, the Holy One of Israel.