Jacob's name is changed to Israel, and through the agency of his son Joseph, the children of Israel descend into Egypt, 70 people in all with their households, and God promises them a future of greatness.

Literal Christian interpreters like Henry M. Morris say that the stranger was " God Himself and, therefore, Christ in His preincarnate state ", citing Jacob's own evaluation and the name he assumed thereafter, " one who fights victoriously with God ", and adding that God had appeared in the human form of the Angel of the L < SMALL > ORD </ SMALL > to eat a meal with Abraham in Genesis 18.

Dinah's brothers, Simeon and Levi, agreed in Jacob's name to permit the marriage as long as all the men of Shechem first circumcised themselves, ostensibly to unite the children of Jacob in Abraham's covenant of familial harmony.

The first known settlement of Jacob City was by a white man named Jacob Jones who housed the first blacks on his land and property, that is where Jacob City got its name, as they would tell their friends " lets go to Jacob's.

When the village was incorporated in 1878, the name was changed to Proctorville in Jacob's honor.

The name change was in honor of William Ake, Jacob's son.

Albourne, Ansty, Bolney, Clayton, Ditchling, Ditchling Common, East Chiltington, Goddards Green, Hickstead, Jacob's Post, Keymer, Plumpton, Plumpton Green, Sayers Common, Streat, Twineham, Westmeston, Wivelsfield ( which has given its name to a railway station in Burgess Hill ), and Wivelsfield Green are other nearby villages.

In classical rabbinical literature, the name is interpreted as a combination of Yahweh and a dalet ( the letter d ); in Gematria, the dalet has the numerical value 4, which these rabbinical sources argue refers to Judah being Jacob's fourth son.

According to this biblical passage, the name Issachar refers to Leah hiring Jacob's sexual favours at the cost of some Mandrakes ; this suggests the etymology is ish-sachar, literally meaning man of hire, though some Jewish sources take it instead to mean reward or recompense, in reference to Issachar being the result of Jacob being hired.

The Swedish name literally means Jacob's City or Jacob's Town.

The text of the Torah gives two different etymologies for the name of Issachar, which some textual scholars attribute to different sources-one to the Yahwist and the other to the Elohist ; the first being that it derives from ish sakar, meaning man of hire, in reference to Leah's hire of Jacob's sexual favours for the price of some mandrakes ; the second being that it derives from yesh sakar, meaning there is a reward, in reference to Leah's opinion that the birth of Issachar was a divine reward for giving her handmaid Zilpah to Jacob as a concubine.

Jacob's realization that the place was " God's camp ", led him to name the place Mahanaim-Two Camps, or Two Companies, to memorialize the occasion of his own company sharing the place with God's.

This is believed to be the origin of the name Jacob's Well, also given to the adjoining road.

R. Travers Herford used a translation of the passages which named Jacob's hometown as Sama in the first account strictly speaking the name of a town nine miles away from Sakhnin.

The text of the Torah gives two different etymologies for the name of Reuben, which textual scholars attribute to different sources-one to the Yahwist and the other to the Elohist ; the first explanation given by the Torah is that the name refers to God having witnessed Leah's misery, in regard to her status as the less-favourite of Jacob's wives, implying that the etymology of Reuben is that it derives from raa beonyi, meaning he has seen my misery ; the second explanation is that the name refers to Leah's hope that Reuben's birth will make Jacob love her, implying a derivation from yeehabani, meaning he will love me.

The name conferred upon a person in early Biblical times was generally connected with some circumstance of that person's birth: several of Jacob's sons are recorded as having received their names in this manner ( Genesis 30 ).

Generally, it was the mother who chose the name, as in the account of Jacob's sons, but there were occasions on which the father chose the child's name, for instance in Genesis 16: 15, 17: 19, and 21: 2.

Especially noteworthy was the use made of Jacob's blessing to transfer a personal name from the civic to the sacred sphere.

Jacob's Well does appear by name in the New Testament's Book of John ( 4: 5f ), where it is recorded that Jesus " came to a city of Samaria, called Sychar, near the field which Jacob gave to his son Joseph.

Some have attributed Jacob's problems to the fact that his name was on Orwell's list, a list of people with pro-communist leanings prepared in March 1949 by George Orwell for his friend Celia Kirwan at the Information Research Department, a propaganda unit set up at the Foreign Office by the Labour government.

( However, on at least one other occasion it is used to refer a woman who is not a wife-specifically, the handmaid of Jacob's wife.

Joseph, Jacob's favourite son, is sold into slavery in Egypt by his jealous brothers.

Elsewhere in the Qur ' an, Isaac is mentioned in lists: Joseph follows the religion of his forefathers Abraham, Isaac and Jacob ( XII: 38 ) and speaks of God's favor to them ( XII: 6 ); Jacob's sons all testify their faith and promise to worship the God that their forefathers, " Abraham, Ishmael and Isaac ", worshiped ( II: 127 ); and the Qur ' an commands Muslims to believe in the revelations that were given to " Abraham, Ishmael, Isaac, Jacob and the Patriarchs " ( II: 136 ; III: 84 ).

According to the compilation hypothesis, the formulaic use of the word toledoth ( generations ) indicates that Genesis chapter 11, verse 27 to chapter 25, verse 19 is Isaac's record through Abraham's death ( with Ishmael's record appended ), and Genesis chapter 25, verse 19 to chapter 37, verse 2 is Jacob's record through Isaac's death ( with Esau's records appended ).

Confused, Isaac exclaimed, " The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau!

Although the death of Rebecca, Jacob's mother, is not explicitly recorded in the Bible, Deborah, Rebecca's nurse, died and was buried at Bethel, at a place that Jacob calls Allon Bachuth ( אלון בכות ), " Oak of Weepings " ( Genesis 35: 8 ).

The Eastern Orthodox Church and those Eastern Catholic Churches which follow the Byzantine Rite see Jacob's dream as a prophecy of the Incarnation of the Logos, whereby Jacob's ladder is understood as a symbol of the Theotokos ( Virgin Mary ), who, according to Orthodox theology, united heaven and earth in her womb.

The account of Jacob's blessing of Joseph's sons is also seen as prophetic by Christian commentators.

( XII: 8, 16-17 ) Jacob's prophetic nature is evident from his foreknowledge of Joseph's future greatness ( XII: 6 ), his foreboding and response to the supposed death of Joseph ( XII: 13, 18 ) and in his response to the sons ' plight in Egypt.

In contrast to the Judeo-Christian view of Jacob, one main difference is that the story of Jacob's blessing, in which he deceives Isaac, is not accepted in Islam.

Jacob, who had deceived and cheated his brother, is in turn deceived and cheated by his relative Laban concerning Jacob's seven years of service ( lacking money for a dowry ) for the hand of Rachel, receiving Leah instead.

* The twisted nerve ( gid hanasheh ): the sciatic nerve, as according to the Bible ( Genesis 32: 33 ) the patriarch Jacob's was damaged when he fought with an angel, cannot be eaten and is removed by nikkur

Rachel, Jacob's infertile second wife and Leah's sister, is desirous of the and barters with Leah for them.

The trade offered by Rachel is for Leah to spend that night in Jacob's bed in exchange for Leah's.

While this book contains some history of the Nephites, including the death of Nephi, it is mainly a record of Jacob's preachings to his people.

The remainder of Second Nephi is a recording of their ( Jacob's and Nephi's ) teachings and prophecies.

It is also known as Jacob's Pillow Stone and the Tanist Stone, and in Scottish Gaelic clach-na-cinneamhain.

In the film Jacob's Ladder ( film ), Jacob Singer is seen with The Stranger on the subway.

He is also credited to have invented the Jacob's staff, an instrument to measure the angular distance between celestial objects.

When Laban planned to deceive Jacob into marrying Leah instead of Rachel, the Midrash recounts that both Jacob and Rachel suspected that Laban would pull such a trick ; Laban was known as the " Aramean " ( deceiver ), and changed Jacob's wages ten times during his employ ( Genesis 31: 7 ).

The offspring of Jacob's sons became the tribes of Israel following the Exodus, when the Israelites conquered and settled in the Land of Israel.

() There is no mention of how or when Isaac's wife Rebekah died, nor of Jacob's wife Leah, but they are included in the list of those that had been buried in Machpelah in Jacob's final words to the children of Israel:

" Jacob's Memorial "; often shortened to just Zikhron ) is a town in Israel, south of Haifa, and part of the Haifa District.

In Jacob's third sermon, Jacob quotes an allegory of the scattering and gathering of Israel ( see Parable of the Olive Tree ), which he attributes to another prophet, Zenos.

In this counterfactual, Jacob's favoring Joseph's succession as the leader of the fledging nation of Israel would have been seen as perfectly normal and fitting, given the customs of the time.

Fard Muhammad's Yakub has some parallels to the Biblical Jacob's role as the father of the tribes of Israel.

In July 1994, Paxton was invited to perform at a folk festival in Israel, " Jacob's Ladder ", and he played there and a series of concerts around Israel accompanied by folk guitarist and harmonica player Shay Tochner.

Lost Israel And The First Overturn Located ; Jacob's Pillow-Pillar Stone ; The Other Overturns ; Dan -- The Serpent's Trail ; Israel In The Isles ; A Few More Identities ; A Study In " Scarlet "; Egypt-Israelitish And Anglo-Saxon Emblems ; The Two-Fold Aspect Of Prophetic Israel ; The Coming Exodus.

Therefore the children of Israel eat not of the sinew which shrank, which is upon the hollow of the thigh, unto this day: because he touched the hollow of Jacob's thigh in the sinew that shrank.