Word Study · Strong's H2999 · Hebrew
יַבֹּק
Yabboq
yab-boke'
Strong's 1890 spelling: Yabbôq
“Jabbok, a river east of the Jordan”
Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain
Jabbok, a river east of the Jordan
Rendered in the KJV as
Jabbok.
- 7occurrencesin the Old Testament
- 5 of 39Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
- 5inflected formsdistinct spellings
Across 7 occurrences
The word itself
Inflected forms · 5
- יַבֹּק֙2
- יַבֹּ֣ק2
- הַיַּבֹּ֖ק1
- הַיַּבֹּ֔ק1
- יַבֹּֽק׃1
How it is rendered · 2
- Jabbok5
- the Jabbok2
The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.
How it parses · 2
- proper noun (a name)5
- the definite article (“the”) + proper noun (a name)2
Show the grammar codes as tagged
- HNpl · 5
- HTd/Npl · 2
All 7, in canonical order
The ledger of occurrences
Where this word lives
Deuteronomy carries the most and opens below; every other book is one click.
Deuteronomy2 occurrences
- Deuteronomy 2:37יַבֹּק֙yabokproper noun (a name)But you did not go near the land of the Ammonites, or the land along the banks of the Jabbok River, or the cities of the hill country, or any place that the LORD our God had forbidden.here: Jabbok
- Deuteronomy 3:16יַבֹּ֣קyabokproper noun (a name)and to the Reubenites and Gadites I gave the territory from Gilead to the Arnon Valley (the middle of the valley was the border) and up to the Jabbok River, the border of the Ammonites.here: Jabbok
Judges2 occurrences
- Judges 11:13הַיַּבֹּ֖קhaiyabokthe definite article (“the”) + proper noun (a name)The king of the Ammonites answered Jephthah’s messengers, “When Israel came up out of Egypt, they seized my land, from the Arnon to the Jabbok and all the way to the Jordan. Now, therefore, restore it peaceably.”here: the Jabbok
- Judges 11:22הַיַּבֹּ֔קhaiyabokthe definite article (“the”) + proper noun (a name)seizing all the land from the Arnon to the Jabbok and from the wilderness to the Jordan.here: the Jabbok