BIBLE DICTIONARY + WORD STUDY
How to read this: there is rarely one magic “true meaning” hidden behind an English word. A lexicon records a word’s semantic range. The intended meaning is narrowed by grammar, sentence, author, historical usage and context.
HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H1142
be.ne ya.a.qan — Bene-jaakan
§ Bene-jaakan = "sons of twisting" an Israelite place of encampment in the wilderness (same as be.e.rot be.ne-ya.a.qan (בְּאֵרֹת בְּנֵי־יַעֲקָן "Beeroth-bene-jaakan" H0885))
3 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H885
be.e.rot be.ne-ya.a.qan — Beeroth-bene-jaakan
Beeroth Bene-Jaakan or Beeroth = "wells" or "wells of the sons of Jaakan" an encampment for Israel in the wilderness probably in the country of the Horites
0 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →He twists, one of the sons of Ezer, the son of Seir the Horite (1 Chr. 1:42).
Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.
