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JACOB (pronounced JAY-cub)
Gender: Male Origin: Hebrew Meaning: Held By the Heel Nicknames: Jake, Jakie
Fathered twelve sons and a daughter, who became the ancestors of the nation of Israel. Later called Israel, Jacob was the son of Isaac and Rebecca and the father of the twelve founders of the twelve tribes of Israel.
Jacob Grimm, the German linguist and writer who was, with his brother Wilhelm, the author of 'Grimm's Fairy Tales'.
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