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(“jacob” is a common ‘male first name’ and a less well-known ‘surname’)
(from ‘1999’ through ‘2012’, ‘jacob’ has been the most popular baby name for ‘boys’ in the ‘united states’)
(it is a cognate of ‘james’)
(‘jacob’ is derived from late latin iacobus, from greek Ἰάκωβος iakobos, from hebrew יַעֲקֹב (yaʿqob, yaʿaqov, yaʿăqōḇ), the name of the hebrew patriarch ‘jacob’ (son of ‘isaac’ and ‘rebecca’))
(the name comes either from the hebrew root עקב ʿqb meaning “to follow, to be behind” but also “to supplant, circumvent, assail, overreach”, or from the word for “heel”, עֲקֵב ʿaqeb)
(in the narrative of ‘genesis’, it refers to the circumstances of jacob’s birth when he held on to the heel of his older twin brother ‘esau’ (‘genesis 25:26’))
(the name is etymologized (in direct speech by the character ‘esau’) in ‘genesis 27:36’, adding the significance of ‘jacob’ having “supplanted” his elder brother by buying his birthright)
(in a christian context, ‘jacob’ – james as ‘reduced english form’ – is the name for several people in the ‘new testament’) –>
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‘apostle james’ (son of ‘zebedee’)
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another ‘apostle james’ (son of ‘alphaeus’)
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(‘james the just’ (who led the original ‘messianic community’ in ‘jerusalem’)
(since ‘jacob’ is also venerated as a ‘prophet’ of ‘islam’, his name is commonly used as a ‘male first name’ in ‘arab’ and ‘muslim’ societies (arabic ‘yakub’ / turkish ‘yakup’))
(in modern english language, the term “jacobite” refers to a follower of “jacobitism”, the political movement dedicated to the return of the “stuart kings” to the thrones of ‘england’, ‘scotland”, and ‘ireland’)
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