Term: jacob: (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')
Candidate hypernym: patriarch: any of the early biblical characters regarded as fathers of the human race → 1
Candidate hypernym: burr: rough projection left on a workpiece after drilling or cutting → 0
Candidate hypernym: rat: any of various long-tailed rodents similar to but larger than a mouse → 0
Candidate hypernym: gapped scale: a musical scale with fewer than seven notes → 0
Candidate hypernym: clinocephaly: a congenital defect in which the top of the head is depressed (concave instead of convex) → 0
Candidate hypernym: butterwort: any of numerous carnivorous bog plants of the genus Pinguicula having showy purple or yellow or white flowers and a rosette of basal leaves coated with a sticky secretion to trap small insects → 0
Candidate hypernym: dimness: the quality of being dim or lacking contrast → 0
Candidate hypernym: antipyresis: medication with antipyretics to treat a fever → 0
Candidate hypernym: see: the seat within a bishop's diocese where his cathedral is located → 0
Candidate hypernym: melastomataceae: a family of trees and bushes and herbs of order Myrtales; many are cultivated as ornamentals → 0
Candidate hypernym: salpinx: a tube in the uterus or the ear → 0