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Jacob
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[German Version] I. Old Testament – II. Judaism
I. Old Testament
1. Name The anthroponym
Jacob (יַעֲקוֹב/
yaʿaqôb) is attested as a common name throughout the ancient Near East from Mesopotamia and Egypt in the 2nd millennium as
ia(
ḫ)
qub-(
ēl) to late 1st-millennium Palmyra as
yʿqwb. As a sentence name it derives from the verbal root
ʿqb (Old South Arab. and Eth.: “protect”; Ug.: “be near”), so that the theophoric form may be translated “God protects” or “God is near.” In the Hebrew Bible, only the hypocoristic form without a theophoric subject ¶ occurs. The Hebrew Bible derives the n…
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