Yaʿqūb
يَعْقُوب
Say it yaʿ-QOOB
Name of the Prophet Yaʿqūb (peace be upon him)
At a glance
- Gender
- Boy
- Origin
- Not Arabic in origin
- In English
- Jacob
- Found in
- The Qurʾān: 2:132, 3:84, 4:163 The prophets
- Also spelled
- Yaqub, Yaqoob, Yakub, Yacoub
Meaning & source
We have not found a meaning we can source, so we do not give one.
Al-Jawālīqī counts every prophet’s name as non-Arabic except four, and Yaʿqūb is not one of the four. We found no classical source in our cache that gives its meaning. His other Qurʾānic name, Isrāʾīl, is explained by Ibn ʿAbbās as “ʿAbd Allāh”.
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مِنْهَا إِسْرَائِيلُ لَقَبُ يَعْقُوبَ وَمَعْنَاهُ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ
Who carried this name
- The Prophet Yaʿqūb (peace be upon him) Qurʾān 2:132