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Jacob

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Ja·cob  (jkb)
In the Bible, the son of Isaac and grandson of Abraham. His 12 sons became the progenitors of the 12 tribes of Israel.
[Late Latin Iacbus, from Greek Iakb, from Hebrew ya'qb, (God) has protected; see qb in Semitic roots.]
Ja·cob  (zhä-kôb), François Born 1920.
French geneticist. He shared a 1965 Nobel Prize for the study of regulatory activity in body cells.
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Noun1.Jacob - French biochemist who (with Jacques Monod) studied regulatory processes in cells (born in 1920)
Francois Jacob
2.Jacob - (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')
Old Testament - the collection of books comprising the sacred scripture of the Hebrews and recording their history as the chosen people; the first half of the Christian Bible
patriarch - any of the early biblical characters regarded as fathers of the human race


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First, he spoke freely of his intention to start shortly for Liverpool and take ship for America; a resolution which cost his good mother some pain, for, after Jacob the idiot, there was not one of her sons to whom her heart clung more than to her youngest-born, David.
Brother Jacob by Eliot, George View in context
You all see Jacob Postlethwaite standing up on the stool there in disgrace.
The Woman in White by Collins, Wilkie View in context
And so Michael was ultimately sold to one Jacob Henderson for two thousand dollars.
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