JAAKAN jā’ ə kăn (יַעֲקָ֑נ֙; LXX βαναια, 1 Chron 1:42). One of the three sons of Ezer, a Horite chief in Edom (Gen 36:20-30). The name appears in Numbers 33:32 as Benejaakan (“the sons of Jaakan”), a place in or near the western side of the Arabah where an encampment of the Israelites was made on their journey from Sinai to Ezion-geber. It also occurs in Deuteronomy 10:6 as Beeroth Bene-jaakan (“the wells of the sons of Jaakan”), a reference to another phase of the journeying.