Jacob name - Meaning of Jacob
- Gender
- Masculine
- Lucky Number
- 4
- Usage
- English, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Biblical, Hebrew
- Pronounced
- JAY-kəb (English) , YAH-kawp (Dutch)
- Jacob Meaning
- From the Latin Iacobus, which was from the Greek Ιακωβος (Iakobos) , which was from the Hebrew name (Ya'aqov). In the Old Testament, Jacob (later called Israel) is the son of Isaac and Rebecca and the father of the twelve founders of the twelve tribes of Israel. He was born holding his twin brother Esau 's heel, and his name is explained as meaning "holder of the heel" or "supplanter". Other theories claim that it is in fact derived from a hypothetical name like (Ya'aqov'el) meaning "may God protect". The English names Jacob and James derive from the same source, with James coming from Latin Iacomus, a later variant of Iacobus. Unlike English, many languages do not have separate spellings for the two names. In England, Jacob was mainly regarded as a Jewish name during the Middle Ages, though the variant James was used among Christians. Jacob came into general use as a Christian name after the Protestant Reformation. A famous bearer was Jacob Grimm (1785-1863), the German linguist and writer who was, with his brother Wilhelm, the author of 'Grimm's Fairy Tales'. Jacob is derived from the Hebrew name "Yaakov", which means "following after". This is derived from the Hebrew words "Yahweh", which means "God", and "aqeb", which means "heel". In the Bible, Jacob was born after Esau, holding after Esau"s heel.
Jacob Related Names
Variants: Jaycob (English), Jacobus, Jakob (Dutch), Jakob (Swedish), Jakob (Norwegian), Jakob (Danish), Jake, Jacub, Jakub
Diminutives: Coby, Jake, Jeb, Koby (English), Cobus, Coos, Jaap, Kobe, Kobus, Koos, Sjaak, Sjakie (Dutch), Ib, Jeppe (Danish)
Feminine Forms: Coba, Jacoba, Jacobina, Jacobine (Dutch), Jacobine (Norwegian), Bine, Jacobine (Danish)
Other Languages: Yakub, Yaqub (Arabic), Hagop, Hakob (Armenian), Jakes (Basque), Iakobos (Biblical Greek), Yaakov (Biblical Hebrew), Iacobus (Biblical Latin), Yakov (Bulgarian), Jaume, Jaumet (Catalan), Jago (Cornish), Jakov, Jakob, Jakša (Croatian), Jakub (Czech), Jaagup, Jakob, Jaak, Jaakob (Estonian), Jaakko, Jaakoppi, Jaska (Finnish), Jacques (French), Japik (Frisian), Iago (Galician), Iakob, Koba (Georgian), Jakob (German), Iakopa, Kimo (Hawaiian), Yaakov, Yakov, Akiba, Akiva (Hebrew), Jakab, Jákob (Hungarian), Séamus, Shamus, Sheamus, Séamas (Irish), Giacobbe, Giacomo, Jacopo, Iacopo, Lapo (Italian), Iacomus, Jacobus (Late Roman), Jokūbas (Lithuanian), Jakov (Macedonian), Hemi (Maori), Jakub, Kuba (Polish), Jaime, Iago, Jacó (Portuguese), Yakov, Yasha (Russian), Seumas, Jamie (Scottish), Jakov (Serbian), Jakub (Slovak), Jakob, Jaka, Jaša (Slovene), Jacobo, Jaime, Yago (Spanish), Yakup (Turkish), Yakiv (Ukrainian), Iago (Welsh), Kapel, Koppel, Yankel (Yiddish)
Jacob Celebrities
Jacob Bell - football player, Jacob Cruz - baseball player, Jacob Epstein - artist, Jacob Ford - football player, Jacob Hester - football player, Jacob Smith - actor, Jacob Vargas - actor, Jacob Young - actor,
