. . --Heb., This for me twenty years in thy house, but taken in connection with the preceding this, in Genesis 31:38, the meaning is "During the one twenty years that I was with thee, thy ewes, &c.," upon which follows "During the other twenty years that were for me in thy ...
Genesis 31:49 Compare Sam: MT lacks the pillar Genesis 31:49 That is Watchpost Genesis 31:53 Meaning of Heb uncertain Genesis 31:55 Ch 32.1 in HebGenesis 31 New International Version Jacob Flees From Laban 31 Jacob heard that Laban’s sons were saying, “Jacob has taken everything our...
" The meaning is this: even if thy secret departure can be explained, thy stealing of my gods cannot. Genesis 31:31 And Jacob answered and said to Laban, Because I was afraid: for I said, Peradventure thou wouldest take by force thy daughters from me. The first, Jacob met by pleading...
Though there is disagreement among Christians on this, the plainest and simplest meaning of the text is that He created in six days as we think of days. i. “If the days were not days at all, would God have countenanced the word? Does He trade in inaccuracies, however edifying? The ...
So that place was called Beersheba [21:14; C meaning either “well of seven” or “well of promise”] because they ·made a promise to each other [swore an oath] there. GNV Wherefore the place is called Beersheba, because there they both swear. GW This is why that place is called...
Joseph could have buried his gift in the ground and kept the meaning of the dreams to himself. He could have thought, “I’m not going to going to help these two numbskulls. Nobody appreciates me around here, anyway. Potiphar wouldn’t listen to me. His wife set me up. These Egyptian...
Definitions: Translation consists in reproducing in the receptor language the closest natural equivalent of the source language message, first in terms of meaning and secondly in terms of style. (所谓翻译,是指在译语中用切近而又 自然的对等语再现原语的信息,首先在意义上,其次是文体上。) ---Nida...
"Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh"; meaning that the mature man may and shall leave the paternal house, where he has been merely a dependent member of the family, and, urged by the longing for a ...
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In the Piel stem the verb means “to jest; to make sport of; to play with,” not simply “to laugh,” which is the meaning of the verb in the Qal stem. What exactly Ishmael was doing is not clear. Interpreters have generally concluded that the boy was either (1) mocking Isaac (...