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Genesis 34:5
“And Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah his daughter: now his sons were with his cattle in the field: and Jacob held his peace until they were come.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
יַעֲקֹבYaʻăqôb · yah-ak-obe'
H3290 · Hebrew
H3290 · Hebrew
- Definition
- Jaakob, the Israelitish patriarch
- Derivation
- from H6117 (עָקַב); heel-catcher (i.e. supplanter);
- KJV renderings
- Jacob.
- Grammar
- וְ — conjunction
- יַעֲקֹ֣ב — proper noun
- Usage
- Occurs 349 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 25:26Genesis 25:27Genesis 25:28Genesis 25:29Genesis 25:30
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read יַעֲקֹב here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.