Jacob

See also: Jâcob and Jacòb

English

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Jacob

Wikipedia

Etymology

From Middle English Iacob, from Late Latin Iācōbus, from Ancient Greek Ἰάκωβος (Iákōbos), from Biblical Hebrew יַעֲקֹב (yaʿăqōḇ, literally “he will/shall heel”), from עָקֵב (ʿāqēḇ, “heel”). Doublet of James.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒeɪkəb/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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Proper noun

Jacob

1. A male given name from Hebrew.
   • 1927, Ernest Hemingway, chapter III, in The Sun Also Rises:

     "Georgette. How are you called?" "Jacob." "That's a Flemish name." "American too." "You're not a Flamand?" "No, American." "Good, I detest Flamands." - - -
     Brett smiled at him. "I've promised to dance this with Jacob," she laughed. "You've a hell of a biblical name, Jake."

   • 2024 June 5, Sarah Dean and David McKenzie, “Jacob Zuma has made a dramatic comeback in South Africa’s elections. Will he have the last laugh over Ramaphosa?”, in CNN‎:

     Analysts and opinion polls had forecast losses for the ANC but a pivotal factor in the party’s staggering decline was former President Jacob Zuma and his newly formed uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) party, which capitalized on widespread discontent within the ANC’s traditional voter base.

   2. (biblical) One of the sons of Isaac and Rebecca, and twin brother of Esau; father of the Israelites (Jews and Samaritans) by 12 sons by 4 consorts, most famously Judah and Joseph who fathered Manasseh.

      Synonyms: Yaakov, Israel

      • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 25:27, column 2:

        And the boyes grew; and Eſau was a cunning hunter, a man of the fielde: and Iacob was a plaine man, dwelling in tents.

   3. (Mormonism) The fifth son of Lehi and one of the younger brothers of Nephi, author of one of the books in the Book of Mormon.

Derived terms

• Jacari
• Jacobean
• Jacob sheep
• Jacob's ladder
• Jacob's membrane
• Jacob's staff

Related terms

• Jack
• Jacqueline
• Jacques
• Jake
• Jakeb
• James
• Lay

Translations

one of the sons of Isaac and Rebecca

Afrikaans: Jakob Aghwan: 𐔺𐔰𐕄𐕒𐔱 (yaḳob) Amharic: ያቆብ (yaḳob) Arabic: يَعْقُوب (ar) (yaʕqūb) Aramaic: Syriac: ܝܥܩܘܒ Armenian: Հակոբ (hy) (Hakob) Old Armenian: Յակոբ (Yakob) Azerbaijani: Yaqub Bashkir: Яҡуп (Yaqup) Belarusian: Я́каў m (Jákaw) Bengali: ইয়াকুব (bn) (yaqub) Bulgarian: Я́ков m (Jákov) Chinese: Cantonese: 雅各 (ngaa5 gok3) Mandarin: 雅各 (zh) (Yǎgè) Coptic: ⲓⲁⲕⲱⲃ (iakōb) Czech: Jákob m Danish: Jakob (da) c Dutch: Jakob (nl) m Estonian: Jaakob Ewe: Yakob m Faroese: Jákup (fo) m Finnish: Jaakob (fi) French: Jacob (fr) m Old French: Jacob Ge'ez: ያዕቆብ (yaʿḳob) Georgian: იაკობი (iaḳobi) German: Jakob (de) m Greek: Ιακώβ (el) m (Iakóv) Ancient: Ἰακώβ m (Iakṓb) Greenlandic: Jaaku (kl) Gujarati: યાકૂબ m (yākūb) Hausa: Yaƙubu Hawaiian: Iakoba Hebrew: יַעֲקֹב (he) (ya'akov) Hindi: याकूब m (yākūb) Hungarian: Jákob (hu) Icelandic: Jakob (is) m Indonesian: Yakub Irish: Iacób m Italian: Giacobbe (it) m Japanese: ヤコブ (Yakobu) Kazakh: Жақып (Jaqyp) Korean: 야곱 (yagop) Latin: Jacobus m Latvian: Jēkabs m Macedonian: Јаков m (Jakov) Malay: Yaakub (used by Muslims), Yakub (used by Christians) Maltese: Ġakobb m Manchu: ᠶᠠᡴᠣᠪ (yakob) Navajo: Jéíkab Ngazidja Comorian: Yakub, Yakuba Norman: Jâcob m Norwegian: Jakob (no) Persian: یعقوب (fa) (ya'qub) Polish: Jakub (pl) m Portuguese: Jacó (pt) Romanian: Iacov m Russian: Иа́ков (ru) m (Iákov), Я́ков (ru) m (Jákov) Scots: Jaucob Scottish Gaelic: Iàcob Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: Јаков Roman: Jakov m Slovak: Jakub m Slovene: Jakob (sl) m Spanish: Jacob (es) m Swahili: Yaakub Swedish: Jakob (sv) Thai: ยาโคบ (yaa-kôhp) Turkish: Yakup (tr), Yakub Ukrainian: Я́ків m (Jákiv), Іаків m (Iakiv) Uyghur: (please verify) ياقۇپ (yaqup) Vietnamese: Giacôbê, Giacôbe, Giacóp, Giacơ, Yacôbê Welsh: Jacob m Yiddish: יעקבֿ m (yakev)

male given name (the standard form)

Abkhaz: Еқәыԥ (Ekʷəp) Afrikaans: Jakob, Jacobus, Jaco, Jakobus (af), Jako Albanian: Minikel Arabic: يَعْقُوب (ar) m (yaʕqūb) Armenian: Հակոբ (hy) (Hakob) Bashkir: Яҡуп (Yaqup) Belarusian: Я́каў m (Jákaw) Bengali: ইয়াকুব (bn) (yaqub) Breton: Jakez (br) Bulgarian: Я́ков m (Jákov) Catalan: Jaume (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 雅各布 (Yǎgèbù) Czech: Jakub (cs) m Danish: Jacob Dutch: Jacob (nl), Jacobus Estonian: Jaak Ewe: Yakob m Faroese: Jákup (fo) Finnish: Jaakko (fi) French: Jacob (fr) m, Jacques (fr) m Galician: Xaime (gl), Xacobe (gl) m, Xácome (gl) m Georgian: please add this translation if you can German: Jakob (de) m Greek: Ιάκωβος (el) (Iákovos), Ιακώβ (el) (Iakóv), Τζέικομπ (el) (Tzéikomp) (transliteration from English) Greenlandic: Jaaku (kl) Hausa: Yaƙubu Hawaiian: Iakopa Icelandic: Jakob (is) Ingrian: Jaakko Inuktitut: ᔮᑯᑉ (yaakop) Irish: Séamus, Séamas (ga) m Italian: Giacobbe (it) m, Giacomo (it) m, Jacopo (it) m Latvian: Jēkabs m Macedonian: Јаков m (Jakov) Malay: Yaakub Malayalam: ചാക്കോ (cākkō), യാക്കോബ് (yākkōbŭ) Maori: Hākopa Marathi: जेकब m (jekab) Navajo: Jéíkab Norman: Jâcob m Norwegian: Jakob (no) Occitan: Jacme (oc) Old Church Slavonic: Иꙗковъ (Ijakovŭ) Persian: جاکوب (jâkub) Polabian: Joťüb m Polish: Jakub (pl) m Portuguese: Jaime (pt) m, Tiago (pt) m Romanian: Iacob (ro) m Russian: Я́ков (ru) m (Jákov) (cognate), Дже́йкоб (ru) m (Džéjkob) (transliteration), Иа́ков (ru) m (Iákov) (archaic or biblical) Scottish Gaelic: Seumas (gd) Sicilian: Jàbbucu m Slovak: Jakub m Spanish: Jacobo (es) m, Yago (es) m, Santiago (es), Diego (es) m Swedish: Jakob (sv) Turkish: Yakup (tr) Ukrainian: Я́ків m (Jákiv), Іáків m (Iákiv) (archaic or biblical) Uyghur: ياقۇپ (yaqup) Vietnamese: Giacóp (transliteration) Walloon: Djåke (wa) Waray-Waray: Santiago Welsh: Iago (cy) West Frisian: Japik Yiddish: יעקבֿ m (yakev)

Noun

Jacob (plural Jacobs)

1. A breed of multihorned sheep.
2. (UK, slang, obsolete) A ladder.
   • 1825, M. Egerton, Airy Nothings; Or, Scraps and Naughts, and Odd-cum-shorts, page 26:

     Where's the Jacob? — the what, sir? — the Jacob! the ladder ye fool!

References

• (ladder): John Camden Hotten (1873), The Slang Dictionary

Catalan

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin Iācōbus, from Hebrew יַעֲקֹב (ya‘ăqṓḇ, “Jacob”, literally “he will/shall heel”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ʒəˈkɔp]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [d͡ʒaˈkɔp]

Proper noun

Jacob m

1. Jacob (biblical figure)

Related terms

• jacobeu
• jacobí
• jacobita

Cebuano

Etymology

From English Jacob, from Late Latin Iacobus, from Ancient Greek Ἰάκωβος (Iákōbos), from Hebrew יעקב (ya'aqóbh; Modern: Yaakov, “Jacob”, literally “he will/shall heel”), from עקב (‘aqev, “heel of the foot”). Also from Spanish Jacob.

Proper noun

Jacob

1. a male given name from English or Spanish
2. (biblical) Jacob

Danish

Alternative forms

• Jakob

Proper noun

Jacob

1. a male given name from Hebrew, equivalent to English Jacob or James

Related terms

• (male given names) Ib, Jeppe, Jack, Jim, Jimmi, Jimmy
• (surnames) Jacobsen

Descendants

• → Greenlandic: Jaakupi, Jaakorpi
  • ⇒ Greenlandic: Jaakku, Jaaku, Iaaku (diminutive)
  • ⇒ Greenlandic: Jaakuaraq, Jakunguaq (diminutive)

References

• Danskernes Navne, based on CPR data: 25 930 males with the given name Jacob (compared to 22 417 named Jakob) have been registered in Denmark between about 1890 (=the population alive in 1967) and January 2005, with the frequency peak in the 1970s. Accessed on 19 June 2011.

Dutch

Alternative forms

• Jakob, Jacobus, Jakobus

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈjaː.kɔp/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: Ja‧cob

Proper noun

Jacob m

1. a male given name from Hebrew, equivalent to English Jacob or James

Derived terms

• Jaap (diminutive)
• Jaco (diminutive)
• Jim (diminutive)
• Coos, Cobus, Koos, Kobus, Kobbe, Kobe (diminutive)
  • Koosje (diminutive)

Descendants

• Afrikaans: Jacob, Jakob, Jacobus, Jakobus
  • Afrikaans: Cobus, Kobus, Jaco, Jako, Koos

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʒa.kɔb/

• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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Proper noun

Jacob m

1. Jacob (biblical figure)
2. a male given name

Related terms

• Jacques

German

Alternative forms

• Jakob

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈjaːkɔp]

• Audio (Austria):

  (file)

• Hyphenation: Ja‧cob

Proper noun

Jacob

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Jacob or James

Related terms

• Jakobchen, Köb, Köbes, Koeeb, Jäggi, Joggi

Middle Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin Iacobus, from Ancient Greek Ἰάκωβος (Iákōbos), from Hebrew יעקב (ya'aqóbh, literally “he will/shall heel”).

Proper noun

Jācob m

1. a male given name

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Alternative forms

• Jacobus

Descendants

• Dutch: Jacob, Jakob, Jacobus, Jakobus
  • Afrikaans: Jacob, Jakob, Jacobus, Jakobus
    • Afrikaans: Cobus, Kobus, Jaco, Jako, Koos

Middle High German

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin Iācōbus, borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἰάκωβος (Iákōbos), from Ἰακώβ (Iakṓb), borrowed from Hebrew יַעֲקֹב, from עקב.

Proper noun

Jācob m

1. (biblical) Jacob (one of the sons of Isaac and Rebecca)
2. (biblical) James (one of two Apostles)

Declension

This entry needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• → Alemannic German: Jakob
  • ⇒ Alemannic German: Jakobli (diminutive)
  • ⇒ Alemannic German: Joggi (diminutive)
  • ⇒ Alemannic German: Jockel (diminutive)
    • ⇒ Alemannic German: Jockeli (diminutive)
  • ⇒ Alemannic German: Köbi, Chöbi (diminutive)
• → Bavarian: Jakob
  • ⇒ Bavarian: Jackl (diminutive)
• Central Franconian:
  • Hunsrik: Jakob
• German: Jakob, Jacob
  • ⇒ German: Jakobi, Jakobi
  • ⇒ German: Jakobchen (diminutive)
  • ⇒ German: Köb, Köbes, Koeeb (diminutive)
  • ⇒ German: Jäggi, Joggi (diminutive)
  • ⇒ German: Jeckel, Jäckel (diminutive)
  • ⇒ German: Jockel, Jokel (diminutive)
    • → English: yokel (noun)

References

• Benecke, Georg Friedrich; Müller, Wilhelm; Zarncke, Friedrich (1863), “Jâcob”, in Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch: mit Benutzung des Nachlasses von Benecke, Stuttgart: S. Hirzel
• "jācob" in Köbler, Gerhard, Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch (3rd edition 2014)

Norwegian

Proper noun

Jacob

1. a male given name, variant of Jakob

Old Galician-Portuguese

Alternative forms

• Jacobe, Jacobo

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin Iācōbus, borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἰάκωβος (Iákōbos), from Ἰακώβ (Iakṓb), borrowed from Hebrew יַעֲקֹב, from עקב.

Cognate with Old Spanish Jacob and Old French James.

Proper noun

Jacob m

1. (biblical) Jacob (one of the sons of Isaac and Rebecca)
2. a male given name, equivalent to English Jacob

Related terms

• Santiago

Descendants

• Galician: Xacobe, Xacob, Jacobe (reintegrationist), Xagobe, Jagobe (reintegrationist)
• Portuguese: Jacó, Jacob, Jacobe, Jacobo
  • → Hunsrik: Schakoh

References

• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “Jacob”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

Portuguese

Proper noun

Jacob m

1. alternative form of Jacó

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xaˈkob/ [xaˈkoβ̞]
• Rhymes: -ob
• Syllabification: Ja‧cob

Proper noun

Jacob m

1. Jacob (biblical figure)
   • 1602, La Santa Biblia (antigua versión de Casiodoro de Reina), Génesis 25:27:

     Y crecieron los niños, y Esaú fué diestro en la caza, hombre del campo: Jacob empero era varón quieto, que habitaba en tiendas.

     And the boys grew: and Esau was a cunning hunter, a man of the field; and Jacob was a plain man, dwelling in tents. (KJV)

Related terms

• Diego, Santiago, Iago, Diago, Tiago, Yago, Joscia

Swedish

Proper noun

Jacob c (genitive Jacobs)

1. a male given name, variant of Jakob