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Jacob

Jacob is a male given name.

Jacob

(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') French biochemist who (with Jacques Monod) studied regulatory processes in cells (born in 1920)

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Jacob Coxey was ready for the worst.
And Jacob put his rough hand reverently upon the open Bible that lay on Mary's knees.
Ask Jacob, the crane operator.
Jacob is a secular Jew.

Movie subtitles

Look, I get it, Greg is your Jacob, but we all know you're going to end up with Edward.
This daring theft was discovered only when Mr. Wallace Jack called at the jeweler's shop at 73 rue Jacob, where he had left his famous diamond to be reset.
All except Jacob Miller's two kids.
Mrs. Lewis, do you know if Jacob Miller's kids got taken?
Historical precedents for this hope range from Jacob's pillow to Freud's couch.
But it was only that you were a good man of business, Jacob. Business! Mankind was my business!
Thank you, Jacob. You were always a good friend of mine.
Was that the chance of hope that you mentioned, Jacob? It was. Oh, well.
Oh, oh Jacob.
You mustn't reproach yourself, Jacob. We are wrong. What?
Jacob Marley worked at your side for eighteen years.
And there's the door where Jacob Marley's ghost came through. And there's the window where I saw the wandering spirit.
Mr and Mrs John Jacob Astor, Stateroom A-56.
Jacob Group Four.
You shall marry Count Jacob.
Why shouldn't Pierre have her, or Roch, or Jacob. since she's as much their property as yours?
I am Jacob.
Lord Jacob!
How do you like emeralds, Lord Jacob?
I have promised to Lord Jacob that he will become Scotland's regent.
Jacob Durrer, Professor Fallow, Dr. Kern and this forth infernal cipher which doesn't get the code.
Jacob Durrer live here?
The last straw, Mrs. Hudson, the one which breaks the back of the case against Jacob Dillery.
I'm talking about the white flag you saw my men put up at Jacob's Gorge.
My grandfather was Jacob Walz.
Jacob Walz.
I happen to be Jacob Walz's grandson.
Look, I get it, Greg is your Jacob, but we all know you're going to end up with Edward. Because you're Bella.
Old Jacob Braaten could not keep a farmhand and the farm fell more and more into disrepair.
JUWELER ARRESTED This daring theft was discovered only when Mr. Wallace Jack called at the jeweler's shop at 73 rue Jacob, where he had left his famous diamond to be reset.
I'm early today, Jacob.
Well, curiosity will be your undoing, Jacob.
Now this is probably what frightened Jacob.
Eighth Avenue, Jacob's Beach.
He's been wrestling the delirium for five days and nights like Jacob wrestled the angel.
Jacob. are the names.
Well, now, I wouldn't go to California if John Jacob Astor left me San Francisco.
Three: the patriarchs Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
Aye, Jacob Kewper.
What's this I hear Jacob, ay?
Jacob Sharp.

News and current affairs

And, in terms of reform, President Jacob Zuma is not headed in the right direction.
Begin by noting that the title page of In an Uncertain World states that its authors are Robert Rubin and Jacob Weisberg.
It is as though a form of original sin entered a subspecies of humanity descended from Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
In the media, comparisons to Esau's theft of Jacob's birthright and to various Shakespearean tragedies began to abound.
Japan was able to defeat Russia in 1905 only after a Jewish banker in New York, Jacob Schiff, helped Japan by floating bonds.
The anxiety over Jacob Zuma's election as president of South Africa obscures a significant milestone: for the first time in decades, a sub-Saharan nation has at its helm a champion of ordinary people.

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