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Genesis 29:12

And Jacob told Rachel that he was her father's brother, and that he was Rebekah's son: and she ran and told her father.

Jacob told Rachel ... According to the practice of the East, the term "brother" is extended to remote degrees of relationship, as uncle, cousin, or nephew.

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See also Genesis 29:12 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    - Jacob’s Marriage 6. רחל _rāchēl_, Rachel, “a ewe.” 16. לאה _lê'âh_, Leah, “wearied.” 24. זלפה _zı̂lpâh_, Zilpah, “drop?” 29. בלהה _bı̂lhâh_, Bilhah, “timidity.” 32. ראוּבן

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 29 JACOB WITH LABAN _ 1. Jacob's arrival at Padan-aram (Genesis 29:1)_ 2. His service for Rachel (Genesis 29:15) 3. Laban's deception (Genesis 29:21) 4. Jacob receives Rachel ...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    JACOB SERVES SEVEN YEARS FOR RACHEL. LABAN SUBSTITUTES LEAH AND SECURES FOURTEEN YEARS'SERVICE IN EXCHANGE FOR THE TWO. Apart from bits of P (Genesis 29:24; Genesis 29:28_ b_, Genesis 29:29) the secti...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    BROTHER. See on Genesis 29:6 and App-29....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _her father's brother_ In the sense of "relative"; strictly speaking, her father's sister's son. Cf. Genesis 29:15 and Genesis 13:8. _ran and told_ We are reminded of Rebekah's action in Genesis 24:2...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    PART FORTY-ONE THE STORY OF JACOB: HIS EXPERIENCES IN PADDAN-ARAM (Genesis 29:1 to Genesis 31:16) The Biblical Account 1. Then Jacob went on his journey, and came to the land of the children of the...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    JACOB IN MESOPOTAMIA WITH LABAN The divine care and blessing promised to Jacob at Bethel (Genesis 28:15) are illustrated in the narrative of the sojourn of the patriarch at Haran, which apparently las...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    Rachel’s aunt Rebekah had gone to *Canaan to marry Isaac. (See Genesis 24:50-51; Genesis 24:61.) We can be sure that Rachel’s father Laban had told her that....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    GOD’S ANCIENT PEOPLE GENESIS _ALUN OWEN_ CHAPTER 29 JACOB MEETS RACHEL V1 Then Jacob continued his journey. He came to the land where the people in the east lived. V2 As he looked, he saw a well...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THE TÔLDÔTH ISAAC (Genesis 25:19 to Genesis 35:29). THE BIRTH OF ISAAC’S SONS. Abraham begat Isaac — The _Tôldôth_ in its original form gave probably a complete genealogy of Isaac, tracing up his des...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    HER FATHER’S BROTHER. — Really his nephew; but terms of relationship are used in a very indefinite way in Hebrew. (Comp. Genesis 29:5; Genesis 29:15; Genesis 13:8, &c.)...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יַּגֵּ֨ד יַעֲקֹ֜ב לְ רָחֵ֗ל כִּ֣י אֲחִ֤י

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    JACOB IN LABAN'S HOME Genesis 29:1 Well might Jacob lift up his feet! See margin. When we are sure of God we receive strength that enables us to _run_ with patience the race that is set before us. Th...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    Pursuing his journey after his experience at Luz, now called Beth-el, Jacob came into "the land of the children of the east." Here the next twenty years of his life were to be spent, during which he a...

  • Gary Hampton Commentaries

    THE DECEIVER IS DECEIVED When Jacob came to a well in a field in northern Mesopotamia, he inquired where he was. He learned he was near Haran and soon met Rachel, his uncle Laban's daughter, who was c...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Brother, or nephew. The name of brother, in Scripture, almost corresponds with the Consanguineus of the Latins, or our relation._...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Brother, here means no more than a relation....

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    Having already shown the position of Isaac, I resume briefly with the remark that he stands before us clearly as the representative of the Son, and this too as dead, risen, and in heaven. All will und...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 29 THROUGH 35. I have no doubt that in the two wives, as I have said, we have the Gentiles and Israel: Rachel first loved on the earth, but not possessed; but...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND JACOB TOLD RACHEL,.... Or "had told" i her; before he kissed her, and lift up his voice and wept, as Aben Ezra observes: THAT HE [WAS] HER FATHER'S BROTHER; his nephew by his sister, for such wer...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And Jacob told Rachel that he [was] her father's brother, and that he [was] Rebekah's son: and she ran and told her father. Ver. 12. That he was her father's brother.] And therefore made so bold with...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    1 Iacob commeth to the well of Haran. 9 He taketh acquaintance of Rachel. 13 Laban enterteineth him. 18 Iacob couenanteth for Rachel. 23 He is deceiued with Leah. 28 He marrieth also Rachel, and...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And Jacob told Rachel that he was her father's brother, in the wider sense, that of a close relative, AND THAT HE WAS REBEKAH'S SON; AND SHE RAN AND TOLD HER FATHER. Rachel was now, in turn, overjoyed...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Jacob Meets Rachel...

  • Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures

    SECOND SECTION _Jacob’s wives and children. Jacob and Rachel, Laban’s youngest daughter. First and second treaty with Laban. His involuntary consummation of marriage with Leah. The double marriage. L...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    JACOB MEETS RACHEL AND LABAN After many days of travel Jacob came to the land of his relatives. He could not phone to find his directions to their home, nor did he have any street and house number, bu...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    9-14 See Rachel's humility and industry. Nobody needs to be ashamed of honest, useful labour, nor ought it to hinder any one's preferment. When Jacob understood that this was his kinswoman, he was ver...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    LOT now suffered for his cohabitation with bad neighbours....

  • Notes on the Pentateuch by Charles Henry Mackintosh

    These Chapter s present to us the history of Jacob at least, the principal scenes in that history. The Spirit of God here sets before us the deepest instruction, first, as to God's purpose of infinite...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Genesis 29:12 Jacob H3290 told H5046 (H8686) Rachel H7354 fathers H1 relative H251 Rebekahs H7259 son H1121 ran...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘And Jacob kissed Rachel and lifted up his voice and wept. And Jacob told Rachel that he was her father's brother and that he was Rebekah's son. And she ran and told her father.' The meeting is emotio...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Jacob and Laban, two bargain makers, meet. CHARACTERS: Jacob, Laban, Rachael, Leah, Reuben, Levi, Judah. CONCLUSION: The believer who has erred may not be forsaken of God, but he is permit...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Genesis 29:1. _Jacob went on his journey._ Our version fails here to express the lively sense of the Hebrew, as in most versions. _Levabit pedes;_ he tripped along with light feet, being now assured t...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Then Jacob went on his journey, and came into the land of the people of the east_ JACOB’S EXPERIENCE ON HIS JOURNEY I. THAT GOD’S PRESENCE WITH HIM MADE HIS DUTIES AND HIS TROUBLES LIGHT. He who ca...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 29:1 There are similarities between this passage and the earlier journey of Abraham’s servant to Paddan-aram to find a wife for Isaac (ch. Genesis 24:1). While both accounts in...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES.— Genesis 29:1. Went on his journey.] Heb. _Lifted up his feet._ (See Psalms 74:3.) The idea is that he journeyed with alacrity. _Rashi_, the Jewish commentator, says, “his heart was el...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION GENESIS 29:1 THEN JACOB WENT ON HIS JOURNEY (literally, _lifted up his feet—a _graphic description of traveling. Inspired by new hopes, and conscious of loftier aims than when he fled from...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Then Jacob went on his journey, and came to the land of the people of the east. And he looked, behold there was a well in the field, and, there were three flocks of sheep lying by it; for out of that...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    brother. Genesis 13:8 Genesis 14:14 and she. Genesis 24:28...

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