Bible Person
Meaning: that supplants · Male · 2 cross references
This Jacob entry refers to the father of Joseph in Matthew's genealogy of Jesus, not to the patriarch Jacob. He belongs to the quiet post-exilic chain of names leading to Christ. First appears in Matt 1:15.1
AI summary: This Jacob matters because the cross references place him at the immediate generational threshold before Jesus' legal Davidic line is named through Joseph. Though he has no narrative of his own, his inclusion shows that the gospel treats even otherwise obscure ancestors as part of God's providential continuity. Taken together, the material presents this Jacob as a post-exilic ancestor whose place helps connect Israel's long history to the Messiah.1
Central Figure
Jacob
Meaning: that supplants
AI-assisted summary prepared for ai-BIBLE and stored as page content, based on dictionary material, person metadata, and linked Bible cross references.
Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.