Bible: Hebrew Jacob

Famous quotes containing the words hebrew and/or jacob:

    If ye had not plowed with my heifer, ye had not found out my riddle.
    —Bible: Hebrew Samson, in Judges, 14:18.

    To the men who had answered his riddle, “Out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came forth sweetness.”

    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)