Yaakov en · PROPN
Pronunciation
- /ˈjaː.koʊv/ (US)
- /ja.(ʔ)aˈkoʊv/ (US)
Etymology
From Biblical Hebrew יַעֲקֹב (yaʿăqōḇ, literally “May He Heel”), from the third-person singular masculine imperfective form of the Semitic verb "to heel" (with various meanings), in turn from עָקֵב (ʿāqēḇ, “heel of the foot”). Doublet of Jacob and James.
Meanings
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(Judaism) The son of Yitzhak and Rivka, twin brother of Esav, and patriarch of the Jews.
In contrast, Yaakov is associated with the month of Elul, a month characterized by contemplation, in which we, Yaakov’s children, consider our own needed transformation.
2019 September 10, Rachel Timoner, “Book Review: Textual Activism by Rabbi Mike Moskowitz”, in Tikkun, archived from the original on 16 Jan 2021: