Abbott, Jacob

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• Jacob

  ·noun A Hebrew patriarch (son of Isaac, and ancestor of the Jews), who in a vision saw a ladder reac...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Jacob

  that supplants, undermines; the heel ...

  Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

• Jacob

  One who follows on another's heels; supplanter, (Gen. 25:26; 27:36; Hos. 12:2-4), the second born of...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• jacob

  1) A soft fellow. A fool. 2) A ladder: perhaps from Jacob's dream. CANT. Also the common name for a...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• Jacob

  (supplanter), the second son of Isaac and Rebekah. He was born with Esau, probably at the well of La...

  William Smith's Bible Dictionary

• Abbott, Rev. Edwin Abbott

  D.D. (b. 1838) Writer on Biblical and literary subjects. Shakespearian Grammar (1870), ed. of Baco...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• Bryant, Jacob

  (1715-1804) Scholar, ed. at Eton and Camb., wrote learnedly, but paradoxically, on mythological and...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• Abbott, John Stevens Cabot

  (1805-1877) Historian, etc., b. Brunswick, Maine, and ed. at Bowdoin Coll. He studied theology and ...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• À Beckett, Gilbert Abbott

  (1811-1856) Comic writer, b. in London, the s. of a lawyer, and belonged to a family claiming desce...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• Jacob and his Twelve Sons Inn

  East out of Red Cross Street, in Cripplegate Ward Without (O. and M. 1677). The site is now occupie...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.