FAMINE. Accounts for Esau's despair of living, and hence selling his birthright. Genesis 25:29. FIRST. One of the thirteen famines. See note on Genesis 12:10. ABIMELECH. official name. Not the same as Genesis 20:2.... [ Continue Reading ]
GO NOT DOWN (as Abraham did, Genesis 12:10).... [ Continue Reading ]
UNTO THEE. So to each Patriarch: Abraham (Genesis 13:15), Jacob (Genesis 28:13, &c), involving resurrection. See note on Genesis 50:24, and Matthew 22:23.... [ Continue Reading ]
STARS. Figure of speech _Paroemia._ App-6.... [ Continue Reading ]
MY. Repeated. times for emphasis. The No. of Grace. See App-10 VOICE, to be heard and believed (Romans 10:17). CHARGE, to be observed. COMMANDMENTS, to he obeyed. STATUTES, i.e. decrees, to be acknowledged. LAWS, i.e. instructions to be followed.... [ Continue Reading ]
HE SAID. As Abraham had said (Genesis 12:13; Genesis 20:2; Genesis 20:12). SISTER. See note on Genesis 20:12.... [ Continue Reading ]
SPORTING WITH, or caressing... [ Continue Reading ]
WHAT... ? Figure of speech _Erotesis._ App-6. GUILTINESS. See App-15 and App-44.... [ Continue Reading ]
SAYING. One of the Laws given and observed before Moses.... [ Continue Reading ]
RECEIVED. Hebrew found. Figure of speech _Synecdoche_ (of the Species). Compare Genesis 6:8; Romans 4:1.... [ Continue Reading ]
STORE. body.... [ Continue Reading ]
IN THE DAYS OF ABRAHAM HIS FATHER. Isaac. placid character; shown by his obedience (Genesis 22:6; Genesis 22:8), his meekness in betrothal (24), his mourning for his mother (Genesis 24:63. compare note on Gen 26:63), his following in his father's steps to Gerar (Genesis 20:1) in denying his wife the... [ Continue Reading ]
WELL. Hebrew. _'ayin._ See note on Genesis 21:19. SPRINGING. Hebrew living. See note on Genesis 21:19.... [ Continue Reading ]
ESEK. Hebrew strife or contention.... [ Continue Reading ]
SITNAH. Hebrew opposition.... [ Continue Reading ]
REHOBOTH. Hebrew roominess.... [ Continue Reading ]
BEER-SHEBA. Hebrew the well of the oath.... [ Continue Reading ]
GOD. Hebrew. _Elohim._ App-4.... [ Continue Reading ]
PHICHOL Probably an official military title. Compare Genesis 21:22.... [ Continue Reading ]
SAW CERTAINLY. Figure of speech _Polyptoton_ (App-6), for emphasis. Hebrew "seeing we saw". Compare Genesis 2:16 " _freely_ eat"; Genesis 27:30 " _scarce_ gone out"; Genesis 43:3 " _solemnly_ protest"; Genesis 43:7 "asked us _straitly_ ", "could we _certainly_ know"; Genesis 43:20 "came _indeed_ dow... [ Continue Reading ]
TOUCHED. Figure of speech _Tapeinosis._ App-6. Emphasizing the fact that so far from injuring him in any way they had shown him favour.... [ Continue Reading ]
SHEBAH. Hebrew an oath. THEREFORE. Same name given by Abraham (Genesis 21:31). Names were sometimes reimposed for. new reason. Compare Bethel (Genesis 28:18; Genesis 28:19 with Genesis 35:6; Genesis 35:7) and Israel (Genesis 32:28 with Genesis 35:10).... [ Continue Reading ]
These names exhibit the Figure of speech. _Polynyrmia._ App-6. JUDITH, She had. second name, Aholibamah (Genesis 36:5; Genesis 36:14; Genesis 36:25). BEERI. His name was also Anah, but he had acquired the name "Beeri" (or the spring-man) from his having discovered the hot springs. See on Genesis 3... [ Continue Reading ]
GRIEF. Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Effect), grief put for that which caused it. No wonder it caused "bitterness of spirit" when we remember who the Canaanites were. MIND. spirit. Hebrew. _ruach._ See App-9.... [ Continue Reading ]