Jaakobah
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Jaakobah was one of the descendants of Simeon
(I Chronicles 4:36). The name Jaakobath is a form of the name Jacob
, literally meaning "heel-catcher".
Simeon (Hebrew Bible)
According to the Book of Genesis, Simeon was, the second son of Jacob and Leah, and the founder of the Israelite Tribe of Simeon. However, some Biblical scholars view this as postdiction, an eponymous metaphor providing an etiology of the connectedness of the tribe to others in the Israelite...
(I Chronicles 4:36). The name Jaakobath is a form of the name Jacob
Jacob
Jacob "heel" or "leg-puller"), also later known as Israel , as described in the Hebrew Bible, the Talmud, the New Testament and the Qur'an was the third patriarch of the Hebrew people with whom God made a covenant, and ancestor of the tribes of Israel, which were named after his descendants.In the...
, literally meaning "heel-catcher".