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Jacob wrestling with the angel
Jacob wrestling with the angel, also called Jacob wrestling with God, is a Genesis 32 episode in which Jacob wrestles a mysterious figure at night and is renamed Israel.
Jacob Wright
Jacob Anthony Wright (born 2005, Manchester) is an English midfielder for Norwich City; ex-Manchester City academy player who debuted in the 2024 FA Cup and joined Norwich permanently in June 2025 for £2.3m.
Jacob Zhimomi
Jacob Zhimomi (born 1981) is an Indian politician from Nagaland and a Bharatiya Janata Party minister who has represented 4-Ghaspani-I in the Nagaland Legislative Assembly since 2023.
Jacob Ziv
Jacob Ziv (1931–2023) was an Israeli information theorist and Technion professor who created the Lempel–Ziv compression algorithms behind gzip and GIF, and in 2021 became the first Israeli to receive the IEEE Medal of Honor.
Jacob Zuma
Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma, born 1942 in Nkandla, is a South African politician, Robben Island prisoner, ANC president from 2007, fourth president of South Africa 2009-2018, and now leader of the uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) Party.
Jacob Zwart
Jacob Zwart is an American aquatic biogeochemist and senior research data scientist with the USGS Water Resources Mission Area, awarded the 2025 PECASE for environmental forecasting.
Jacob's Ladder
Jacob's Ladder, also called Jacob's dream (Hebrew: סֻלָּם יַעֲקֹב), is the stairway from earth to heaven that Jacob sees in a dream at Bethel in Genesis 28:10–22.
Jacob's Ladder (1990 film)
Jacob's Ladder is a 1990 American psychological horror film directed by Adrian Lyne, written by Bruce Joel Rubin, starring Tim Robbins as Vietnam veteran Jacob Singer; released 2 November 1990 by Carolco, it inspired the Silent Hill games and received a 4K restoration in 2025.
Jacob's Ladder (2019 film)
Jacob's Ladder (2019) is David M. Rosenthal's poorly received remake of the 1990 Adrian Lyne psychological horror film, starring Michael Ealy, Jesse Williams, and Nicole Beharie as veterans and family in an Afghanistan-war paranoia thriller scoring 4% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Jacob's Well
Jacob's Well, also known as the Well of Jacob, is a karst artesian spring near Wimberley, Texas, feeding Cypress Creek from an underwater cave, closed to swimming since 2022.
Jacob's Well (Texas)
Jacob's Well is an artesian karst spring in Cypress Creek near Wimberley, Hays County, Texas, feeding the Middle Trinity (also described as Edwards) aquifer cave system, mapped over 7,000 feet, closed to swimming since 2022.
Jacobabad
Jacobabad (جيڪب آباد), formerly Khangarh, is a city in Sindh, Pakistan, capital of Jacobabad District. Founded 1847 by John Jacob; 219,315 residents (2023); among the hottest cities on Earth, exceeding 50 °C in summer.
Jacobabad District
Jacobabad District, far northern Sindh, Pakistan, on the Balochistan border; capital Jacobabad city, founded 1847 by John Jacob. Three tehsils, 1,174,097 people (2023), among the hottest inhabited places on earth with peaks above 52°C.
Jacobean embroidery
Jacobean embroidery is an English embroidery style from the reign of James I (1603-1625), usually worked in crewel wool on linen twill, known for tree of life motifs, scrolling stems, and stylized flora and fauna.
Jacobean era
The Jacobean era (1603–1625) is the reign of James I of England, formerly James VI of Scotland: Somerset House peace with Spain (1604), Gunpowder Plot (1605), King James Bible (1611), failed British union, and darker Jacobean drama.
Jacobean literature
Jacobean literature, named from Latin Jacobus for James, is the English and Scottish writing of James I's reign (1603 to 1625), known for its dark revenge drama.
Jacobi elliptic functions
The Jacobi elliptic functions sn(z, k), cn(z, k), and dn(z, k) are doubly periodic meromorphic functions that invert the elliptic integral of the first kind, generalizing trigonometric functions.
Jacobi integral
The Jacobi integral, also called the Jacobi constant, is the only known conserved quantity of the circular restricted three-body problem, representing energy in the frame rotating with the two primaries.
Jacobi method
The Jacobi method, also known as Jacobi iteration, is an iterative algorithm of numerical linear algebra that solves systems of linear equations; Jacobi described it in 1845.
Jacobi polynomials
Jacobi polynomials, written P(α, β), are a family of classical orthogonal polynomials on (-1, 1), initiated by Carl Jacobi in 1826 and used in Gauss–Jacobi quadrature and spectral methods.
Jacobi's formula
Jacobi's formula is a theorem of matrix calculus stating that the differential of a square matrix's determinant equals the trace of its adjugate times the matrix differential.
Jacobian conjecture
The Jacobian conjecture, posed by Ott-Heinrich Keller in 1939, asks whether polynomial maps with constant nonzero Jacobian determinant must have polynomial inverses; it was refuted in dimension 3 in 2026.
Jacobian matrix and determinant
The Jacobian matrix of a vector-valued function is the matrix of its first-order partial derivatives; when square, its Jacobian determinant measures local volume scaling and appears in change of variables.
Jacobin (magazine)
Jacobin is a New York-based democratic socialist magazine founded by Bhaskar Sunkara in 2010, publishing quarterly in print (75,000 subscribers) and daily online (over 3 million monthly readers), with international editions including a German one.
Jacobin (politics)
Jacobin (politics): member or supporter of the Jacobin Club of the French Revolution, founded late 1789 from the Breton Club. Split in 1792 into Girondins and Montagnards; Montagnards dominated by 1793, making Jacobin and Montagnard synonymous.
Jacobinte Swargarajyam (ജാക്കബിന്റെ സ്വർഗ്ഗരാജ്യം)
Jacobinte Swargarajyam (ജാക്കബിന്റെ സ്വർഗ്ഗരാജ്യം) is a 2016 Malayalam family drama by Vineeth Sreenivasan, starring Nivin Pauly, based on the real Dubai-based Jacob Zachariah family; released 8 April 2016, earned about ₹22 crore.
Jacobio Pharma (加科思)
Jacobio Pharmaceuticals (加科思) is a Chinese oncology biopharmaceutical company founded in Beijing in 2015 by Yinxiang Wang, focused on allosteric inhibitors of KRAS and SHP2 cancer targets.
Jacobite rising of 1745
Jacobite rising of 1745, the '45: Charles Edward Stuart's campaign to restore the Stuarts, from Glenfinnan (19 August 1745) and Prestonpans to the march to Derby and defeat at Culloden on 16 April 1746.
Jacobite succession
The Jacobite succession is the line of claimants who asserted hereditary rights to the British throne after the 1688 Glorious Revolution. They sought to restore the Stuart line.
Jacobite Syrian Christian Church
The Jacobite Syrian Christian Church, also known as the Jacobite Syrian Orthodox Church, is an Oriental Orthodox church in Kerala, India, serving Saint Thomas Christians under the Patriarch of Antioch.