יַבֹּק
yab.boq
Jabbok
Lexicon Entry
Lexicon data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
What Original Readers Understood
Supported# Jabbok: A Geographic Term in Biblical Hebrew The Hebrew word *yabbōq* (H2999) refers to a specific geographical location—the Jabbok—appearing seven times throughout the biblical text. As a proper noun denoting a place rather than a common word with semantic range, its significance lies entirely in its geographical and narrative context within Scripture. The term itself is a fixed toponym without variation in meaning across its occurrences. The Jabbok's repeated appearance in biblical literature indicates its importance as a geographical marker or boundary in the ancient Near Eastern landscape. With seven documented uses, the word appears frequently enough to suggest the location held recognized significance for biblical writers and their audiences, though the lexicon data provided does not specify the precise geographical features or boundaries this term delineated. Understanding the full significance of this term would require examining the narrative contexts in which it appears, as the lexicon entry provides only the identification that this is a place name.
Source data & methodology
Occurrences in Scripture
7 total occurrences across the text
He rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two servants, and his eleven sons, and crossed over the ford of the Jabbok.
Numbers 21:24Israel struck him with the edge of the sword, and possessed his land from the Arnon to the Jabbok, even to the children of Ammon; for the border of the children of Ammon was fortified.
Deuteronomy 2:37Only to the land of the children of Ammon you didn’t come near: all the banks of the river Jabbok, and the cities of the hill country, and wherever Yahweh our God forbade us.
Deuteronomy 3:16To the Reubenites and to the Gadites I gave from Gilead even to the valley of the Arnon, the middle of the valley, and its border, even to the river Jabbok, which is the border of the children of Ammon;
Joshua 12:2Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon, and ruled from Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and the middle of the valley, and half Gilead, even to the river Jabbok, the border of the children of Ammon;
Judges 11:13The king of the children of Ammon answered the messengers of Jephthah, “Because Israel took away my land when he came up out of Egypt, from the Arnon even to the Jabbok, and to the Jordan. Now therefore restore that territory again peaceably.”
Judges 11:22They possessed all the border of the Amorites, from the Arnon even to the Jabbok, and from the wilderness even to the Jordan.