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JACOB Name
| Name: | Jacob |
| Gender: | Male and Female |
| Origin/Usage: | Hebrew |
| Meaning: | Supplanter |
Jacob Burckhardt: "To each eye, perhaps, the outlines of a great civilization present a different picture. In the wide ocean upon which we venture, the possible ways and directions are many; and the same studies which have served for my work might easily, in other hands, not only receive a wholly different treatment and application, but lead to essentially different conclusions."