Jabbok

2 definitions found

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Jabbok
     a pouring out, or a wrestling, one of the streams on the east of
     Jordan, into which it falls about midway between the Sea of
     Galilee and the Dead Sea, or about 45 miles below the Sea of
     Galilee. It rises on the eastern side of the mountains of
     Gilead, and runs a course of about 65 miles in a wild and deep


     ravine. It was the boundary between the territory of the
     Ammonites and that of Og, king of Bashan (Josh. 12:1-5; Num.
     21:24); also between the tribe of Reuben and the half tribe of
     Manasseh (21:24; Deut. 3:16). In its course westward across the
     plains it passes more than once underground. "The scenery along
     its banks is probably the most picturesque in Palestine; and the
     ruins of town and village and fortress which stud the
     surrounding mountain-side render the country as interesting as
     it is beautiful." This river is now called the Zerka, or blue
     river.
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Jabbok, evacuation; dissipation; wrestling