Jacob

(noun.) (Old Testament) son of Isaac; brother of Esau; father of the twelve patriarchs of Israel; Jacob wrestled with God and forced God to bless him, so God gave Jacob the new name of Israel (meaning `one who has been strong against God').

(noun.) French biochemist who (with Jacques Monod) studied regulatory processes in cells (born in 1920).

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• There follows a history of the fathers and founders of the Hebrew nation, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• I will seek him out, said Isaac, for he is a good youth, and hath compassion for the exile of Jacob. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• The late Jacob Hess, a famous New York Republican politician, was a member of the commission appointed to put the wires underground in New York City, in the eighties. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Go home all of you to dinner, said the schoolmaster, except Jacob. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• I was Esau, and Andros Jacob, the favored one. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• The chief personage aboard proved to be Jacob Thompson, Secretary of the Interior under the administration of President Buchanan. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• For an offense done to the family honor, the sons of Jacob exterminated all Shechem once. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• About 1525 Jacob Zech of Prague invented the fusee, which was re-invented and improved by the celebrated Dr. Hooke, 125 years later. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• In this same parcel of ground which Jacob bought of the sons of Hamor for a hundred pieces of silver, is Jacob's celebrated well. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• The sons of Jacob had been pasturing their flocks near there. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• T' ghaist of Mistress Fairlie, answered Jacob in a whisper. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• She turned with an air of satirical defiance to little Jacob, and began to question him directly. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• You all see Jacob Postlethwaite standing up on the stool there in disgrace. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• Oh, it was a kind of Esau and Jacob business. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• They appeared to think that we had arrived for the express purpose of seeing Jacob Postlethwaite caned. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• Jacobs, will you ask the Prime Minister to come up? 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• Jacobs, bring down my despatch-box. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• Thank you, Jacobs, put it here. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.

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