Word

יַבֹּק

Yabbôq · H2999 · Hebrew · proper noun · 7 occurrences

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Place

Jabbokfirst named in Genesis 32:227 verses

Meanings

Jabbok

River; flows west from its source near Rabbath-Ammon to empty into the Jordan river about 40 kilometers north of the Dead Sea

Examples
Genesis 32:22 Now he got up that same night and took his two wives, his two female slaves, and his eleven children, and crossed the shallow place of the Jabbok.
Numbers 21:24 Then Israel struck him with the edge of the sword, and took possession of his land from the Arnon to the Jabbok, as far as the sons of Ammon; for the border of the sons of Ammon was Jazer.
Deuteronomy 2:37 “Only you did not go near the land of the sons of Ammon, all along the river Jabbok and the cities of the hill country, and wherever the LORD our God had commanded us to avoid.

How it’s used In 3 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Named alongside itApposition

2 occurrences in 2 groups

גְּבוּלborder, territory 2
נַחַלstream, valley, wadi 2

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

5 occurrences in 1 groups

עַדto, as far as, until 5

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

2 occurrences in 2 groups

מַעֲבָרford, pass 1
נַחַלstream, valley, wadi 1

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Semantic domains 1 entry

Names of Waterbodies003001015: יַבֹּק is the proper name Jabbok, the river Jacob crossed the night he wrestled with God and received the name Israel (Genesis 32:22-30).

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H2999. Yabboq יַבֹּק proper name, of a river (√ probably בקק; so Thes after Simonis,…

H2999. Yabboq
יַבֹּק proper name, of a river (√ probably בקק; so Thes after Simonis, Samaritan Di) (ה)יבק מַעֲבַר Gen 32:23 (where perhaps connected with אבק = יאבק); יַבּ ׳נַ֫חַל Deu 2:37, ׳יַבּ הַנַּחַל Deu 3:16; Jos 12:2, יַבֹּק Num 21:24 (|| אַרְנֹּן, compare Deu 3:16; Jos 12:2), הַיַּבֹּק Jdg 11:13, Jdg 11:22 (in both || ארנון); it empties into Jordan from East, in latitude of Shiloh; northern border of Amorites, Num 21:24 (see Di), Jdg 11:22; in its upper course it runs south to north, hence (west) border of Ammon, Deu 3:16 (compare Deu 2:37), Jos 12:2; modern Wady Zerqa BdPal.181.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Names of Waterbodies7 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0