Jacob

[ jey-kuh b for 1, 3; French zha-kawb for 2 ]

/ ˈdʒeɪ kəb for 1, 3; French ʒaˈkɔb for 2 /

noun

the second son of Isaac, the twin brother of Esau, and father of the 12 patriarchs. Gen. 25:24–34.

Fran·çois [frahn-swa] /frɑ̃ˈswa/, 1920–2013, French geneticist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1965.

a male given name: from a Hebrew word meaning “supplanter.”

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Jacob Cordova, 27, is the latest activist to be jailed for their activities.
Texas Gun Slingers Police the Police—With a Black Panthers Tactic|Brandy Zadrozny|January 2, 2015|DAILY BEAST
First, the ghost of his departed partner, Jacob Marley, comes calling, his face emerging from the doorknob.
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He paid his own way, joining older brother Jacob who had escaped to the Windy City earlier that year.
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“It could not do much when it was in survival mode, but if did survive,” says Princeton Professor Jacob Shapiro.
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Jacob: As a woman, you have to do your job a hundred times better.
The Ladies Disrupting the Bartender Boys’ Club|Brandy Zadrozny|September 7, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Jacob was the author both of commentaries and of scholia on the sacred books; of these specimens are given by Assemani and Wright.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 15, Slice 1|Various
Oh, none, except that my father liked Jacob's political opinions and his views on art.
Mr. Pim Passes By|Alan Alexander Milne
They have no nephew; the old man never had but those two children, Jacob and Edward.
East Lynne|Mrs. Henry Wood
See Jacob Boehme's view, pp. 94, 95 above, which is identical with that of Blake.
Mysticism in English Literature|Caroline F. E. Spurgeon
It struck and injured fatally an innocent outsider, who was taken to the Charity Hospital, in the rue Jacob, and died there.
The Real Latin Quarter|F. Berkeley Smith

British Dictionary definitions for jacob

Jacob

/ (ˈdʒeɪkəb) /

noun

Old Testament the son of Isaac, twin brother of Esau, and father of the twelve patriarchs of Israel

Also called: Jacob sheep any of an ancient breed of sheep having a fleece with dark brown patches and two or four horns

Word Origin for Jacob

sense 2 in allusion to Genesis 30:40

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Word Origin and History for jacob

Jacob

masc. proper name, name of Old Testament patriarch, son of Isaac and Rebecca and father of the founders of the twelve tribes, from Late Latin Iacobus, from Greek Iakobos, from Hebrew Ya'aqobh, literally "one that takes by the heel" (Gen. xxviii:12), a derivative of 'aqebh "heel." The most popular name for boys born in the U.S. from 1999 through 2008. Jacob's ladder, in various transferred uses from 1733, is from Gen. xxviii:12.

Medicine definitions for jacob

Jacob

[ zhä-kôb′ ]

François Born 1920

French geneticist. He shared a 1965 Nobel Prize for the study of regulatory activity in body cells.

Science definitions for jacob

Jacob

[ zhä-kôb′ ]

François Born 1920

French geneticist who studied how genes control cellular activity by directing the synthesis of proteins. With Jacques Monod, he theorized that there are genes that regulate the activity of other, neighboring genes. They also proposed the existence of messenger RNA.

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