ἸΑΚΩΒΟΣ, ἰακωβος
IAKŌBOS, iakōbos
Sounds Like: ee-ah-KO-bos
Translations: James, Jacob
From the root: ἸΑΚΩΒΟΣ
Part of Speech: Proper Noun
Explanation: This is a proper noun, referring to the personal name James or Jacob. It is a common name found in the New Testament, referring to several individuals, most notably James, the brother of John, and James, the brother of Jesus. It is used to identify a specific person.
Inflection: Singular, Nominative, Masculine
Strong’s number: G2385 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Aristeas
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 1 — 18:258, 18:269, 19:278, 19:288, 19:295, 19:302, 19:308, 19:311, 19:317, 20:326, 20:327, 20:331, 20:334, 21:337, 21:338, 21:339, 22:345
- Book 2 — 2:9, 2:17, 3:37, 6:95, 6:102, 6:114, 6:118, 7:168, 8:194
- Book 3 — 5:87
- Book 6 — 5:89
- Book 20 — 5:102, 9:200
Josephus' The Jewish War
Tischendorf's Greek New Testament
- Matthew — 10:2, 10:3, 13:55
- Mark — 10:35, 13:3
- Luke — 9:54
- Acts — 1:13, 15:13
- Galatians — 2:9
- James — 1:1
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ἸΑΚΩΒΟΣ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ἸΑΚΩΒΩ — (to) Jacob, (to) James
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