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 · H2999
yab.boq — Jabbok
§ Jabbok = "emptying" a stream which intersects the mountain range of Gilead, and falls into the Jordan on the east about midway between the Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea
7 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H4709
mits.pah — Mizpah
§ Mizpah = "watchtower" a place in Gilead south of Jabbok
37 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H5523
suk.kot — Succoth
§ Succoth = "booths" the site where Jacob put up booths for his cattle and built a house for himself; apparently east of the Jordan near the ford of the torrent Jabbok and later allotted to the tribe of Gad
16 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H6177
a.ro.er — Aroer
Aroer = "ruins" a city in Ammon near the Jabbok belonging to Gad Also named: a.ro.e.ri (עֲרֹעֵרִי "Aroerite" H6200)
16 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H154
ed.re.i — Edrei
§ Edrei = "goodly pasture" a chief city of Bashan, north of Jabbok river
8 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H6439
pe.nu.el — Peniel
§ Penuel or Peniel = "facing God" the place named by Jacob when he wrestled with God and located on the north bank of the Jabbok close to the Jordan
8 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →A pouring out, or a wrestling, one of the streams on the east of Jordan, into which it falls about midway between the Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea, or about 45 miles below the Sea of Galilee. It rises on the eastern side of the mountains of Gilead, and runs a course of about 65 miles in a wild and deep ravine. It was the boundary between the territory of the Ammonites and that of Og, king of Bashan (Josh. 12:1-5; Num. 21:24); also between the tribe of Reuben and the half tribe of Manasseh (21:24; Deut. 3:16). In its course westward across the plains it passes more than once underground. “The scenery along its banks is probably the most picturesque in Palestine; and the ruins of town and village and fortress which stud the surrounding mountain-side render the country as interesting as it is beautiful.” This river is now called the Zerka, or blue river.
Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.
