Akkub

(another form of Jacob)

This was the name of three biblical men:

  1. The head of one of the families of Nethinim (Ezra 2:45).

  2. A Levite who kept the gate of the temple after the return from Babylon (1 Chronicles 9:17; Ezra 2:42; Neh. 7:45).

  3. A descendant of David (1 Chronicles 3:24).