Bible: Hebrew Jacob

Famous quotes containing the words hebrew and/or jacob:

    There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not: the way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maid.
    —Bible: Hebrew Proverbs, 30:18-19.

    From the oracle of Agur, son of Jakeh.

    I was not unemployed in my profession by the late John Jacob Astor; a name which, I admit, I love to repeat, for it hath a rounded and orbicular sound to it, and rings like unto bullion.
    Herman Melville (1819–1891)