<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>(in the Bible) The second son of Isaac, the twin brother of Esau, and father of the 12 patriarchs.</li><li>François [f, r, ah, n, -, swa], 1920–2013, French geneticist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1965.</li><li>A male given name: from a Hebrew word meaning “supplanter.”</li></ul>