Jabbok River

Ancient Jabbok River - Map of New Testament Israel

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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Jabbok River in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

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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Jabbok River in Naves Topical Bible

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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Jabbok River in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(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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Jabbok River in Easton's Bible Dictionary

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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Jabbok in Hitchcock's Bible Names

evacuation; dissipation; wrestling...

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Jabbok River Scripture - Joshua 12:2

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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Jabbok River Scripture - Numbers 21:24

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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Jabbok River Scripture - Deuteronomy 3:16

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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Jabbok River Scripture - Judges 11:13

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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