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Jabbok. [Jab'bok]


Stream on the east of the Jordan, near to which the angel wrestled with Jacob. It was afterwards called 'the border of the children of Ammon.' Gen. 32: 22; Num. 21: 24; Deut. 2: 37; Deut. 3: 16; Joshua

12: 2; Judges 11: 13, 22. In some parts it runs in a deep ravine, and in winter is impassable in places. It enters the Jordan about 32 6' N, and is now called Wady Zerka.