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say it: JAY-kuhb
jacob is a noun meaning "French biochemist who (with Jacques Monod) studied regulatory processes in cells (born in 1920)". It carries 2 recorded senses.
French biochemist who (with Jacques Monod) studied regulatory processes in cells (born in 1920)
(Old Testament) son of Isaac; brother of Esau; father of the twelve patriarchs of Israel; Jacob wrestled with God and forced God to bless him, so God gave Jacob the new name of Israel (meaning `one who has been strong against God')
Old Testament
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for jacob come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.