Jacob
noun
- a masculine name: dim. Jake, Jack; var. James; equiv. Fr. Jacques, It. Giácomo
- Bible a son of Isaac, twin brother of Esau, and the father of the founders of the twelve tribes of Israel: also called Israel: Gen. 25:24-34
See Jacob in American Heritage Dictionary 4
(jāˈkəb)
In the Bible, the son of Isaac and grandson of Abraham. His 12 sons became the progenitors of the 12 tribes of Israel.
(zhä-kôbˈ), François Born 1920.
French geneticist. He shared a 1965 Nobel Prize for the study of regulatory activity in body cells.
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