Jaakan (Anglicized, já-a-kan), meaning "he twists", is a

Hebrew Hebrew (; ; ) is a Northwest Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family. Historically, it is one of the spoken languages of the Israelites and their longest-surviving descendants, the Jews and Samaritans. It was largely preserved ...

name. In the

Hebrew Bible The Hebrew Bible or Tanakh (;"Tanach"
'' Ezer Ezer ( he, עֵזֶר) is a community settlement (Israel), community settlement in southern Israel. Located between Ashdod and Ashkelon near the Mediterranean Sea, Mediterranean coast, it falls under the jurisdiction of Be'er Tuvia Regional Counc ...

, the son of Seir the Horite
1 Chronicles 1:42
. Jaakan is spelt "Akan" in . There is also a reference to a location Be'eroth Bene-Jaakan, the wells of the children of Jaakan, in and , a place where the

Israelites The Israelites (; , , ) were a group of Semitic-speaking tribes in the ancient Near East who, during the Iron Age, inhabited a part of Canaan. The earliest recorded evidence of a people by the name of Israel appears in the Merneptah Stele o ...

camped on their Exodus journey from

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to the

Promised Land The Promised Land ( he, הארץ המובטחת, translit.: ''ha'aretz hamuvtakhat''; ar, أرض الميعاد, translit.: ''ard al-mi'ad; also known as "The Land of Milk and Honey"'') is the land which, according to the Tanakh (the Hebrew ...

References

{{Tanakh-stub Book of Genesis people