Definisjon av jacob

Vi fant 3 definisjoner av jacob på engelsk.

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Jacob - (Old Testament) son of Isaac; brother of Esau; father of the twelve patriarchs of Israel; Jacob wrestled with God and forced God to bless him, so God gave Jacob the new name of Israel (meaning `one who has been strong against God')
		patriarch a man who is older and higher in rank than yourself
Jacob - French biochemist who (with Jacques Monod) studied regulatory processes in cells (born in 1920)
		Francois Jacob

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Jacob, also later known as Israel, as described in the Hebrew Bible, was the third patriarch of the Jewish people whom God made a covenant with, and ancestor of the tribes of Israel, named after his descendants. In the Hebrew Bible he is the son of Isaac and Rebekah, the grandson of Abraham and Sarah and of Bethuel, and the younger brother of Esau. He had twelve sons and several daughters, by his two wives, Leah and Rachel, and their maidservants, Bilhah and Zilpah.

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