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iakobJacob

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

Puritas changed it
754 times in 35 works
Consistency
99.4% (754 of 758)
Reach if approved
~796 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Disagrees: jakob
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
758 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (754 changes in 35 works, 99.4% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 754)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … of God, aboue the lawes & light of nature? Againe, He ſheweth his word vnto IakobJacob, his Statutes & his Iudgements vnto Iſraell: he hath not dealt ſowith euery Nation, neighther …
    With rule
    … of God, aboue the lawes & light of nature? Againe, He ſheweth his word vnto IakobJacob, his Statutes & his Iudgements vnto Iſraell: he hath not dealt ſowith euery Nation, neighther …

    Theophilus Brabourne · A Defense of the Sabbath Day · p. 559 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … an excellent Metaphor, hee yet continueth the ſame: Iudah (ſaith he) ſhal plough, and IakobJacob ſhall breake the cloddes. Neither was this deuiſed by the Prophet, without the wiſedome …
    With rule
    … an excellent Metaphor, hee yet continueth the ſame: Iudah (ſaith he) ſhal plough, and IakobJacob ſhall breake the cloddes. Neither was this deuiſed by the Prophet, without the wiſedome …

    John Carpenter · The Plain Mans Spiritual Plow · p. 61 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … confessed, he hath praised. This name was first given to the fourth sonne of IakobJacob, because at his birth his mother praised the Lord. Gen. 29.35. Matth. 2.6. There were two …
    With rule
    … confessed, he hath praised. This name was first given to the fourth sonne of IakobJacob, because at his birth his mother praised the Lord. Gen. 29.35. Matth. 2.6. There were two …

    Francis Roberts · The Key of the Bible · p. 290 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … Caine and Abel can agree in one field; Ishmael and Izaak in one house, IakobJacob and Esau in one wombe, then shall the wicked and godly agree together, not …
    With rule
    … Caine and Abel can agree in one field; Ishmael and Izaak in one house, IakobJacob and Esau in one wombe, then shall the wicked and godly agree together, not …

    Richard Greenham · Works · p. 450 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … further answer hereof, let us hear what M. Iohnson himself wrote heretofore against M. IakobJacob, J would know of yow (sayth he) who are so deep a clerk, how …
    With rule
    … further answer hereof, let us hear what M. Iohnson himself wrote heretofore against M. IakobJacob, J would know of yow (sayth he) who are so deep a clerk, how …

    Henry Ainsworth · Animadversion to Cliftons Advertisement · p. 80 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … none should say eyther to God, or one to another, as Rahell did to IakobJacob, Give me children, or els I dye: specially if we weigh withall, that though …
    With rule
    … none should say eyther to God, or one to another, as Rahell did to IakobJacob, Give me children, or els I dye: specially if we weigh withall, that though …

    John Robinson · Observations Divine and Moral · p. 306 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … before, as if they had been seene and felt by themselves. Hoseas sayth of IakobJacob, God found him in Bethel, and there he spake with vs; the Psalmist singeth …
    With rule
    … before, as if they had been seene and felt by themselves. Hoseas sayth of IakobJacob, God found him in Bethel, and there he spake with vs; the Psalmist singeth …

    Henry Ainsworth · The Communion of Saints · p. 169 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … hill Hermon, Iosh. 11.3. neere vnto the land of Gilead, which is that place where IakobJacob and Laban made a couenant, Gen. 31.49▪ there was a third in the tribe of …
    With rule
    … hill Hermon, Iosh. 11.3. neere vnto the land of Gilead, which is that place where IakobJacob and Laban made a couenant, Gen. 31.49▪ there was a third in the tribe of …

    Andrew Willet · Harmony Upon 1 Samuel · p. 44 · 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.

Annotations on the Pentateuch, Psalms, Song of Songs A11649

  • Printed
    IAKOBJACOB by subtilty getteth the blessing from Esau, and is threatned. Chap. 27
    With rule
    IAKOBJACOB by subtilty getteth the blessing from Esau, and is threatned. Chap. 27

    Henry Ainsworth · Annotations on the Pentateuch, Psalms, Song of Songs · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    AND IAKOBJACOB SENT messengers, before him; to Esau, his brother: unto the land of Seir, the …
    With rule
    AND IAKOBJACOB SENT messengers, before him; to Esau, his brother: unto the land of Seir, the …

    Henry Ainsworth · Annotations on the Pentateuch, Psalms, Song of Songs · p. 119 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    Vers. 3. AND IAKOBJACOB] Here beginneth the eight section, or lecture of the law, called of the first …
    With rule
    Vers. 3. AND IAKOBJACOB] Here beginneth the eight section, or lecture of the law, called of the first …

    Henry Ainsworth · Annotations on the Pentateuch, Psalms, Song of Songs · p. 120 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    AND IAKOBJACOB LIVED, in the land of Egypt seventeen yeers: and the daies of IakobJacob, the …
    With rule
    AND IAKOBJACOB LIVED, in the land of Egypt seventeen yeers: and the daies of IakobJacob, the …

    Henry Ainsworth · Annotations on the Pentateuch, Psalms, Song of Songs · p. 159 · Open in the reader