Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #10805 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

iaacobJacob

Proper names whose form changes beyond mechanical spelling: Ionas → Jonah. Approve one at a time.

Puritas changed it: 353 times in 102 works
Consistency: 98.8% (353 of 357)
Reach if approved: ~375 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: jacob
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 357 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (353 changes in 102 works, 98.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 353)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
A man can bewayle any outward commoditie being lost, and say as IaacobJacob did, I haue lost this and this child, all these things make against me …
With rule
A man can bewayle any outward commoditie being lost, and say as IaacobJacob did, I haue lost this and this child, all these things make against me …
Thomas Taylor · Davids Learning · p. 151 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of Eſau, whom he feared: and therefore whereas hee was called at his birth IaacobJacob, that is, one that holdeth by the heele, (and ſo ready to ouerthrow him …
With rule
… of Eſau, whom he feared: and therefore whereas hee was called at his birth IaacobJacob, that is, one that holdeth by the heele, (and ſo ready to ouerthrow him …
Nicholas Bownd · The Holy Exercise of Fasting · p. 113 · Open in the reader
Printed
VVe muſt put difference betweene the bleſſings of the Patriarks, Abraham, Iſaac, and IaacobJacob, and ſuch others vppon their children, and betweene the bleſſings of other cō mon …
With rule
VVe muſt put difference betweene the bleſſings of the Patriarks, Abraham, Iſaac, and IaacobJacob, and ſuch others vppon their children, and betweene the bleſſings of other cō mon …
George Estey · Expositions Upon Divers Parts of Scripture · p. 61 · Open in the reader
Printed
… more numerous Off-spring, at Parentes large expences, like Levi to bee divided in IaacobJacob, to teach the LORDES judgementes, and to bee scattered in Israel, to teach the …
With rule
… more numerous Off-spring, at Parentes large expences, like Levi to bee divided in IaacobJacob, to teach the LORDES judgementes, and to bee scattered in Israel, to teach the …
William Guild · The Humble Address Both of Church and Poor to Britains Monarch · p. 9 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Some vnderſtand it properly of an Angell, ſuch as he that was preſent to IaacobJacob in his iournying, or Gabriel that appeared to Mary. For mine owne part, I …
With rule
… Some vnderſtand it properly of an Angell, ſuch as he that was preſent to IaacobJacob in his iournying, or Gabriel that appeared to Mary. For mine owne part, I …
John Mayer · Exposition on the Catholic Epistles · p. 334 · Open in the reader
Printed
… True, but did non of the Leuits that were borne in the wilderneſſe teach IaacobJacob the law, or offer the incenſe of his God in all thoſe fourtye yeares?
With rule
… True, but did non of the Leuits that were borne in the wilderneſſe teach IaacobJacob the law, or offer the incenſe of his God in all thoſe fourtye yeares?
John Penry · Defense of Writings on the Ignorant Ministry · p. 45 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the truth of Christian Religion: not onely because the truth of the prophecies of IaacobJacob, of Moses, of Esay, and other the Prophets is fulfilled in them; and because …
With rule
… the truth of Christian Religion: not onely because the truth of the prophecies of IaacobJacob, of Moses, of Esay, and other the Prophets is fulfilled in them; and because …
Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 136 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Gods hatred. Reuben ſhould haue had as good a bleſſing as Iudah, but when IaacobJacob bleſſed him, (Geneſis the 35. chapter & 22. verſe) he remembred his ſinne with Bilhah, and therefore …
With rule
… Gods hatred. Reuben ſhould haue had as good a bleſſing as Iudah, but when IaacobJacob bleſſed him, (Geneſis the 35. chapter & 22. verſe) he remembred his ſinne with Bilhah, and therefore …
Henry Smith · Sermons in One Volume · p. 679 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (4)

4 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Davids Learning A13538

Printed
… became of the people, surely neither did other dead persons know. If ABRAHAM and IAACOBJACOB know vs not, no more doth PETER, PAVL, the blessed Virgin, nor any other …
With rule
… became of the people, surely neither did other dead persons know. If ABRAHAM and IAACOBJACOB know vs not, no more doth PETER, PAVL, the blessed Virgin, nor any other …
Thomas Taylor · Davids Learning · p. 215 · Open in the reader
Printed
… in the issue and fruit of them. By this shall all the iniquitie of IAACOBJACOB be purged, and this is all the fruit, the taking away of his sinne …
With rule
… in the issue and fruit of them. By this shall all the iniquitie of IAACOBJACOB be purged, and this is all the fruit, the taking away of his sinne …
Thomas Taylor · Davids Learning · p. 284 · Open in the reader

Two Treatises A21041

Printed
… then twice as much in an euill ſeruant. When IOSEPH managed POTIPHARS buſineſſes, and IAACOBJACOB, LABANS, all things were well. If then godly ſeruants, by vertue of Gods bleſſing …
With rule
… then twice as much in an euill ſeruant. When IOSEPH managed POTIPHARS buſineſſes, and IAACOBJACOB, LABANS, all things were well. If then godly ſeruants, by vertue of Gods bleſſing …
Daniel Dyke · Two Treatises · p. 202 · Open in the reader

The Complaint of a Sanctified Sinner Answered A21258

Printed
… you this day? and Pſal. 147.19, 20. ſaith the Pſalmiſt, The Lord ſhewes his Word vnto IAACOBJACOB, his Statutes and his Iudgements vnto ISRAEL; he hath not dealt ſo with euery …
With rule
… you this day? and Pſal. 147.19, 20. ſaith the Pſalmiſt, The Lord ſhewes his Word vnto IAACOBJACOB, his Statutes and his Iudgements vnto ISRAEL; he hath not dealt ſo with euery …
Edward Elton · The Complaint of a Sanctified Sinner Answered · p. 248 · Open in the reader