Jacob means deceitful, and is taken from the word “heel”, meaning “heel grabber”. Just as a heel is crooked, so his name connotates “not being straight “. Jacob truly lived up to his name on the day when he wore Esau’s...
In our modern Western world, names are little more than sounds that we are known by, and we think very little about their meanings. However, in Bible times, names were defining markers of identity, prophetic declarations of a persons character and destiny. So as...