Synonyms for Jacob
ˈdʒeɪ kəbja·cob

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1. Jacobnoun

   Synonyms:
   Israel

2. Jacobnoun

   One of the sons of Isaac and Rebecca, and twin brother of Esau; father of the Israelites.

   Synonyms:
   Israel

3. Jacobnoun

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   Synonyms:
   Israel

4. Jacobnoun

   A breed of multihorned sheep.

   Synonyms:
   Israel

Princeton's WordNet

1. Jacob, Francois Jacobnoun

   French biochemist who (with Jacques Monod) studied regulatory processes in cells (born in 1920)

2. Jacobnoun

   (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')

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1. • Old Testament
   • Biochemist
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1. List of paraphrases for "jacob":

   yacoub, jakob, ya'qub, jacobs, yaakob, yaqub, yacoubou, yaakov, yaacov, yaqoub, jake, tall

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1. List of known nicknames for "Jacob":

   Israel, יִצְחָק, יִשְׂרָאֵל, Yaqub

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1. Carlos Garcia:

   Jacob Mendoza had just gotten off the phone with him, and he sounded perfectly fine. He sounded like there was nothing wrong with him. And it surprised Jacob Mendoza when Jacob Mendoza got the call around one o'clock in the morning that he had passed away.

2. Jacob Blake:

   The way Jacob Blake is taking Justin Blake said.Gov, the way Jacob Blake puts all Jacob Blake effort into Jacob Blake therapy, and the passion, if anybody could walk again one day, it would be my nephew.

3. Paul Mutwii:

   Only Nicholas Kimeli and Jacob Krop (third and fourth at the trials) will represent us in Doha. Kibet and Simiyu have not been allowed because they did not comply with the AIU anti-doping rules. We are now very strict with the compliance rules, we cannot make a mistake.

4. Chief Executive Paddy Padmanathan:

   There's no point in getting excited about the rand getting devalued today or doing this yesterday, or (President Jacob) Zuma said this the day before yesterday, we have to look at it for the medium to long term and ride out the cycles, we are providing electricity and, where we do, water, two principle commodities which are fundamental to life, not just economic development, so they are the last thing which people are going to pull the plug on.

5. Bill Delvaux:

   No better story of renaming can be found in the Bible than the story of Jacob (Gen. 32:22-32)