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Jacob

Mentioned in AD 26 traditional (Jones)

Son of Matthan. Mentioned in 2 verses, first in Matthew 1:15.

Compiled from the tagged verses.

Father
Matthan
Child
Joseph
Tagged in
2 verses

Computed from the data. Years are traditional (Jones).

Family

Two generations up and the children; a button shows the grandchildren. Gold lines join partners; grey lines run from parent to child; a dotted line marks a parent named in the text but not by descent.

Family tree of Jacob: two generations up and down, with partners and siblings.

Timeline

The strip runs from Creation to AD 100; the shaded part, AD 1–51, is drawn below at a larger scale around these mentions. Years are traditional (Jones), shown as recorded, not as settled fact.

Timeline of Jacob’s mentions beside the people of the same era.

Mentions

Begat counts Jacob in 2 tagged verses in one book.

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  1. Matthew2

The name in each translation

TextOccurrences of each name
BSBJacob 409
KJVJacob 377
ASVJacob 376

Whole-word, case-sensitive count of the name string (regex \bName\b, so possessives like "Abraham's" count) across the whole Bible text of each translation; this counts the string, not the person, so other people who share the name are included and pronoun references are not. How Begat counts

Every verse

All 2 tagged verses, by book, in canonical order. The Berean Standard Bible is shown; switch to the King James or American Standard Version.

Matthew2 verses
  1. 1:15

    Eliud was the father of Eleazar, Eleazar the father of Matthan, Matthan the father of Jacob,

  2. 1:16

    and Jacob the father of Joseph, the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ.