Baby name · Christian · English
Yaakov
याकोव“Supplanter; holder of the heel”
Yaakov in Indian languages
Pythagorean numerology 3 · The Creative — in this tradition, the number is associated with traits such as expressive, joyful, social and imaginative.
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