Jabbok River
JAB`BOK (dissipation, wrestling), A stream of Gilead
entering the Jordan midway between the Sea of Galilee and
the Dead Sea. It constituted the southern boundary of
Ammon. Now Zurka. Num. 21:24; Deut. 2:37; Gen. 32:22....
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jab'-ok (yabboq, "luxuriant river"): A stream in Eastern
Israel first named in the history of Jacob, as crossed by
the patriarch on his return from Paddan-aram, after leaving
Mahanaim (Gen 32:22 ff). On the bank of this river he had
his strange conflict with an unknown antagonist. The Jabbok
was the northern boundary of the territory of Sihon ...
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A stream on the east of the Jordan River, the northern
boundary of the possessions of the Ammonites
Nu 21:24; Jud 11:13
-Of the Reubenites and the Gadites
Jos 12:2; De 3:16
-The northern boundary of the Amorites
Jud 11:22...
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(emptying), a stream which intersects the mountain range of
Gilead, comp. Jos 12:2,5 and falls into the Jordan on the east
about midway between the Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea. It
was anciently the border of the children of Ammon. Nu 21:24;
De 2:37; 3:16 It was on the south bank of the Jabbok that the
interview took place between Jacob and...
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a pouring out, or a wrestling, one of the streams on the
east of
Jordan, into which it falls about midway between the
Sea of
Galilee and the Dead Sea, or about 45 miles below
the Sea of
Galilee. It rises on the eastern side of the
mountains of
Gilead, and runs a course of about 65 miles in a
wild and deep
ravine. It was the boundary betwe...
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evacuation; dissipation; wrestling...
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Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt in Heshbon, [and] ruled
from Aroer, which [is] upon the bank of the river Arnon, and
from the middle of the river, and from half Gilead, even unto
the river Jabbok, [which is] the border of the children of
Ammon;...
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And Israel smote him with the edge of the sword, and
possessed his land from Arnon unto Jabbok, even unto the
children of Ammon: for the border of the children of Ammon
[was] strong....
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And unto the Reubenites and unto the Gadites I gave from
Gilead even unto the river Arnon half the valley, and the
border even unto the river Jabbok, [which is] the border of
the children of Ammon;...
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And the king of the children of Ammon answered unto the
messengers of Jephthah, Because Israel took away my land, when
they came up out of Egypt, from Arnon even unto Jabbok, and
unto Jordan: now therefore restore those [lands] again
peaceably....
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