The word "shapely" comes from the Hebrew "יְפַת־תֹּאַר" (yephat-to'ar), meaning "beautiful of form," and "beautiful" is "יְפַת־מַרְאֶה" (yephat-mar'eh), meaning "beautiful of appearance." This dual emphasis on ...
Your servant my father said to us, ‘You know that my wife [Rachel] bore me [only] two sons. And one [son] went out from me, and I said, “Surely he is
29 以撒年紀老邁,日子滿足,氣絕而死,歸到他列祖 ( 原文作本民 ) 那裡。他兩個兒子以掃、雅各把他埋葬了。 Read full chapter Chinese Union Version (Traditional) (CUV) by Public Domain Back to resources Pinned Olive Tree Bible Overview Copyright Olive Tree Bible Software. Plus 1 ...
29 Then he took his last breath and died. He was very old when he joined the members of his family who had already died. His sons Esau and Jacob buried his body. Genesis 35:29 Meaning and Commentary Genesis 35:29 And Isaac gave up the ghost, and died According to an Arabic wri...
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 house, I served thee, &c." (See Note on Genesis 29:27, and Excursus on the Chronology of Jacob's Li...
Name Meaning Mother 1. Reuben "see, a son" Leah 2. Simeon "one who hears" Leah 3. Levi "attached" Leah 4. Judah "praise" Leah 5. Dan "he has vindicated" Bilhah 6. Naphtali "my struggle" Bilhah 7. Gad "good fortune" or "a troop" Zilpah 8. Asher "happy" Zilpah 9. Issachar...
28 He looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and looked, and saw that the smoke of the land went up as the smoke of a furnace. Read Chapter Compare PREVIOUS Genesis 19:27 NEXT Genesis 19:29 Genesis 19:28 Meaning and Commentary Genesis 19:28 And ...
Chapter xlix., the blessing by Jacob, is also an addition; but it dates from the latter half of the period of the Judges (K. Kohler, "Der Segen Jacob's"). The theory that the Patriarchs especially, and the other personages of Genesis, represent old, astral deities, though again advan...
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...
“both have been commanded equally and without distinction to take dominion, not one over the other, but both together over the rest of God’s creation for the glory of the Creator”.5The fundamental equality of man and woman is unhesitatingly proclaimed in the first chapter of the Bible. ...