Jacob
And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my
pilgrimage [are] an hundred and thirty years: few and evil
have the days of the years of my life been, and have not
attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers
in the days of their pilgrimage....
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Then will I remember my covenant with Jacob, and also my
covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham will I
remember; and I will remember the land....
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(pronounced /ˈdʒeɪkəb/; Hebrew: יַעֲקֹב, Standard Yaʿakov;
Septuagint Greek: Ἰακώβ; "heel" or "leg-puller", Arabic:
يعقوب Yaʿqūb), also known as Israel (Hebrew: יִשְׂרָאֵל, Standard
Yisraʾel, Isrāʾīl; Septuagint Greek: Ἰσραήλ; "persevere with
God"[1]), as described in the Bible, was the third patriarch
of the Jewish people, and ancestor of t...
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And Eliud begat Eleazar; and Eleazar begat Matthan; and
Matthan begat Jacob;...
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I. Name.
1. Form and Distribution:
ya`aqobh (5 times ya`aqowbh); Iakob, is in form a verb in
the Qal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular. Like some 50
other Hebrew names of this same form, it has no subject for
the verb expressed. But there are a number of independent
indications that Jacob belongs to that large class of names
consisting of a ve...
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-Son of Isaac, and the twin brother of Esau
Ge 25:24-26; Jos 24:4; 1Ch 1:34; Ac 7:8
-Ancestor of Jesus
Mt 1:2
-Given in answer to prayer
Ge 25:21
-Obtains Esau's birthright for just one bowl of stew
Ge 25:29-34; Heb 12:16
-Fradulently obtains his father's blessing
Ge 27:1-29; Heb 11:20
-Esau seeks to kill, escapes to Padan-aram
Ge 27:41-...
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(supplanter), the second son of Isaac and Rebekah. He was
born with Esau, probably at the well of Lahai-roi, about
B.C. 1837. His history is related in the latter half of the
book of Genesis. He bought the birthright from his brother
Esau, and afterward acquired the blessing intended for Esau,
by practicing a well-known deceit on Isaac. (Jacob...
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one who follows on another's heels; supplanter, (Gen.
25:26;
27:36; Hos. 12:2-4), the second born of the twin
sons of Isaac
by Rebekah. He was born probably at Lahai-roi, when
his father
was fifty-nine and Abraham one hundred and fifty-
nine years old.
Like his father, he was of a quiet and gentle
disposition, and
when he grew up followed ...
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