JABBOK

Now the Zerka, a perennial stream, flowing into the Jordan midway between the sea of Galilee and the Dead sea, about thirty miles from each, after a westerly course of some sixty miles. It traverses at first an elevated and desert region, and receives a branch from the north and another from the south. This latter branch separated the Ammonites from Israel. The eastern part of the Jabbok is dry in summer. Towards the west, it flows through a deep ravine. Penuel, where Jacob wrestled with the Angel, was a fording-place of the Jabbok, Ge 32:32. This stream divided the territory of Og from that of Sihon, Jos 12:2 12:5

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Jabbok. 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.

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Jabbok. evacuation; dissipation; wrestling

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JABBOK. → A stream on the east of the Jordan River, the northern boundary of the possessions of the Ammonites Nu 21:24; Jud 11:13 → Of the Reubenites and the Gadites Jos 12:2; De 3:16 → The northern boundary of the Amorites Jud 11:22

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brook of, one of the eastern tributaries of the Jordan Nu 21:24; De 2:37; 3:16