Jabbok
Ancient site, identified with Zarqa River.
Placeriver7 verses
Where was it?
One proposed modern location, with the scholarly support recorded for it.
- Zarqa River1,000
Names
- Jabbok — יַבֹּק yaboq “flowing or wrestling” (H2999) · Ιαβοκ Iabok — Genesis 32:22
Name variants
- Jabbok (46)
- Jabbok River (17)
- River Jabbok (3)
- Wadi Jabbok (3)
- Jabbok Valley (1)
References
Topical references
- A stream on the east of the Jordan River, the northern boundary of the possessions of the Ammonites — Numbers 21:24; Judges 11:13
- Of the Reubenites and the Gadites — Joshua 12:2; Deuteronomy 3:16
- The northern boundary of the Amorites — Judges 11:22
Outline from Nave's Topical Bible (1897); the sub-headings are Nave's own.