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# יַבֹּק

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2999

**Jabbok** — used 7 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Jabbok [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/2999/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

יַבֹּק: n.pr.fl. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/2999/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.fl. (√ prob. בקק; so Thes after Simonis, Sam. Di) מַעֲבַר (ה)יבק Gn 32:23 (where perhaps connected with אבק = יאבק); נַ֫חַל יַבּ׳ Dt 2:37, יַבּ׳ הַנַּחַל Dt 3:16 Jos 12:2, יַבֹּק Nu 21:24 (‖ אַרְנֹן, cf. Dt 3:16 Jos 12:2), הַיַּבֹּק Nu 11:13, 22 (in both, ‖ ארנון); it empties into Jordan from East, in latitude of Shechem; called (southern) boundary of Ammon Shiloh; N. border of Amorites, Nu 21:24 (v. Di), Ju 11:22; in its upper course it runs S. to N., hence (W.) border of Ammon, Dt 3:16 and (northern) of Amorites (cf. 2:37), Jos 12:2; but some confusion (Di Nu 21:24 Dt 2:37);—mod. Wady Zerqa BdPal. 181.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Jabbok (5); of Jabbok (2).

## In the verses

[Judges 11:22](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.11.22/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.11.22/#tree)

וַיִּ֣ירְשׁ֔וּ אֵ֖ת כָּל־גְּב֣וּל הָאֱמֹרִ֑י מֵֽאַרְנוֹן֙ וְעַד־הַיַּבֹּ֔ק וּמִן־הַמִּדְבָּ֖ר וְעַד־הַיַּרְדֵּֽן׃

*Word for word:* and they.took.possession.of (et) all the.territory of the.Amorite\[s\] from.\[the\] Arnon and to the Jabbok and from the wilderness and to the Jordan

*JPS 1917:* And they possessed all the border of the Amorites, from the Arnon even unto the Jabbok, and from the wilderness even unto the Jordan.

[Deuteronomy 2:37](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.2.37/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.2.37/#tree)

רַ֛ק אֶל־אֶ֥רֶץ בְּנֵי־עַמּ֖וֹן לֹ֣א קָרָ֑בְתָּ כָּל־יַ֞ד נַ֤חַל יַבֹּק֙ וְעָרֵ֣י הָהָ֔ר וְכֹ֥ל אֲשֶׁר־צִוָּ֖ה יְהוָ֥ה אֱלֹהֵֽינוּ׃

*Word for word:* only to the.land of.the.people of.Ammon not you.drew.near all the.side of.the.wadi of.Jabbok and the.cities of the.hill.country and all that he.had.commanded Yahweh God our

*JPS 1917:* Only to the land of the children of Ammon thou camest not near; all the side of the river Jabbok, and the cities of the hill-country, and wheresoever the LORD our God forbade us.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2999.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/2999/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).