How to Pronounce Jabbok
DZHAB-uhk
Jabbok is pronounced DZHAB-uhk (ˈdʒæbək): two syllables, stress on the first. Also heard: JAB-uhk.
What does Jabbok mean?
Jabbok means “evacuation; dissipation; wrestling”.
Hitchcock’s Bible Names (1869), public domain.
Where was Jabbok?
The Jabbok is a river east of the Jordan. Jacob crossed its ford with his family the night he was left alone and wrestled with a man until daybreak and was renamed Israel (Genesis 32:22). The Jabbok also served as a boundary marker of the territory taken from the Amorites and of the land of the children of Ammon (Numbers 21:24, Deuteronomy 3:16).
Also pronounced
JAB-uhk
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