Hebrew Texts Genesis 37:11 Hebrew Study Bible(Apostolic/Interlinear) וַיְקַנְאוּ־בֹ֖ואֶחָ֑יווְאָבִ֖יושָׁמַ֥ראֶת־הַדָּבָֽר׃ ...
11. do this] Jacob yields, but, true to the character of a shrewd man of the world, he advises that the formidable Grand Vizier should be propitiated with a suitable present.choice fruits] The Hebrew word, zimrah, occurs only in this passage in the Pent. (cf. Amos 5:23): LXX κ...
17:17 and 18:12) there is laughter, playing on the similarity in Hebrew between the pronunciation of the name Isaac and words associated with laughter. 21:11 A son of his: Abraham is the father of both boys, but Sarah is the mother only of Isaac. Abraham is very concerned that ...
The first word in Genesis 1:1 in the original Hebrew is בְּרֵאשִׁ֖ית (b’reishit). According to the English Bible translators בְּרֵאשִׁ֖ית should be translated as ‘In the beginning’. However, according to ancient Hebrew gra...
Esau’s Descendants - This is the account of the family line of Esau (that is, Edom). Esau took his wives from the women of Canaan: Adah daughter of
The Hebrew word'eresdoes not only denote planet earth, but also land, city, state, etc. It denotes the solidness under foot or the solidness of an organized shelter such as a city. The Hebrew word for light isur, which also happens to be the name of the city from which Abram depart...
this do that ye may live (vide Gesenius, 'Grammar,' 130, 2; Ewald's 'Hebrew Syntax,' 348b) - for I fear God - literally, the Elohim I fear; the term Elohim being employed, since to have said Jehovah would have been to divulge, if not his Hebrew origin, at least his acquaintance...
(a premonition of the apocalyptic New Earth; Joshua is the Hebrew form of the Greek name Jesus - read the articles in our Biblical Name Vault; see the link below). And in the New Testament Jesus gives His disciple Simon the name Peter, which means rock, because 'on this rock I will ...
Did God Sacrifice an Animal in Genesis 3:21? Although the text says nothing about a sacrifice, many believe that a sacrifice is implied. It is often taught that after the first sin was committed, God wanted to show Adam and Eve that sin has consequences, and so He slew an animal in ...
This stone-heap was called Jegar-Sahadutha by Laban, and Galeed by Jacob (the former is the Chaldee, the latter the Hebrew; they have both the same meaning, viz., "heaps of witness"), (Note: These words are the oldest proof, that in the native country of the patriarchs, ...