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Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Genesis 30:24

Joseph] i.e. may God add a son. 'Taking away' the reproach of, childlessness is another meaning.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Genesis 30:24. _SHE CALLED HIS NAME JOSEPH_] יוסף _Yoseph, adding_, or _he who adds_; thereby prophetically declaring that God would _add_ _unto her another son_, which was accomplished in the b...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    - Jacob’s Family and Wealth 6. דן _dān_, Dan, “judge, lord.” 8. נפתלי _naptālı̂y_, Naphtali, “wrestling.” 11. גד _gād_, Gad, “overcoming, victory.” בגד _bāgād_, “in victory or” =גד...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 30 JACOB WITH LABAN _ 1. The sons of Bilhah: Dan and Naphtali (Genesis 30:1)_ 2. The sons of Zilpah: Gad and Asher (Genesis 30:9) 3. The children of Leah: Issachar, Zebulon and Dinah (Genes...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    GENESIS 29:31 TO GENESIS 30:24. THE BIRTH OF JACOB'S CHILDREN. This section is from JE, with slight touches from P. Roughly Genesis 29:31; Gene

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    JOSEPH. Hebrew. _yoseph,_ may He add. THE LORD. Note the occurrence of Jehovah here in connection with Joseph. SHALL ADD. Hebrew. _yoseph,_ is adding. Figure of speech _Paronomasia,_ App-6....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _add_ Heb. _jôsêph_. This clause gives another etymology of the name Joseph from _yâsaph_, "he hath added." These two traditional interpretations of the name are taken, the one from E, the other from...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Genesis 29:31 to Genesis 30:24. Birth of Jacob's Children 31 35 (J); Genesis 30:1-24 (J, E and P) In this section is narrated the account of the birth of eleven sons and one daughter. Six of the son...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    3. _Jacob's Family_ (Genesis 29:31 to Genesis 30:24). _Basic Facts:_ (1) Jacob became the father of twelve sons and one daughter. The inferior value set on a daughter is displayed in the bare announce...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _AND SHE CALLED HIS NAME JOSEPH; AND SAID, THE LORD SHALL ADD TO ME ANOTHER SON._ JOSEPH - [Hebrew, _ YOWCEEP_ (H3130), may he add, from _ YAACAP_ (H3254), to add. But there is a paranomasia on this v...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    30:24 Joseph; (h-6) He will add....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    God made Rachel able to have children. The *mandrakes did not do it. (See verse 14 and the comment.) ‘Joseph’ means ‘let him add’. JACOB BECOMES WEALTHY V25 After Joseph was born to Rachel, Jacob...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    GOD’S ANCIENT PEOPLE GENESIS _ALUN OWEN_ CHAPTER 30 JACOB HAS 6 MORE SONS V1 Rachel saw that she produced no children for Jacob. And she was angry with her sister because her sister was successf...

  • 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

    (22-24) GOD REMEMBERED RACHEL. — Rachel’s long barrenness had probably humbled and disciplined her; and, cured of her former petulance, she trusts no longer to “love-apples,” but looks to God for the...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ תִּקְרָ֧א אֶת ־שְׁמֹ֛ו יֹוסֵ֖ף לֵ אמֹ֑ר

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    SONS BORN TO JACOB Genesis 30:1 The details of this paragraph are given with great minuteness, because they concern the twelve sons of Jacob, the forefathers of Israel. After all, history is made in...

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

    In reading these stories we must never forget that we are looking at things as they were in that far-gone time and must make all necessary allowances for the imperfect light in which these people live...

  • Gary Hampton Commentaries

    JOSEPH, RACHEL'S FIRSTBORN There are two possible reasons Rachel wanted the mandrakes, a poisonous plant of the potato family. She may have thought they produced fertility, since many in that region s...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    Joseph. In imposing this name, Rachel looks both to the past and to the future; thanking God for taking away (asop) her reproach, and begging that He would add (isop or Joseph) the blessing of another...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Joseph signifies adding....

  • 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 SHE CALLED HIS NAME JOSEPH,.... Which signifies "adding", or rather, "to be added"; or, "God shall add", giving this reason for it; AND SAID, THE LORD SHALL ADD TO ME ANOTHER SON: which is expres...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And she called his name Joseph; and said, The LORD shall add to me another son. Ver. 24. _The Lord shall add to me another son._] A sweet and sure way of argumentation. God, that hath thus and thus d...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    1 Rachel in griefe for her barrennesse, giueth Bilhah her mayd vnto Iacob. 5 She beareth Dan and Naphtali. 9 Leah giueth Zilpah her mayd, who beareth Gad and Asher. 14 Reuben findeth Mandrakes, wit...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    and she called his name Joseph (He shall add); AND SAID, THE LORD SHALL ADD TO ME ANOTHER SON. In taking away from Rachel the reproach of her unfruitfulness, the Lord had added to her the hope that He...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    The Birth of Joseph...

  • 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

    THE STRUGGLE BETWEEN RACHEL AND LEAH The fruitfulness of Leah moved Rachel to jealousy, then her demand to Jacob for children moves him to anger (vs.1-2). We may see a serious lesson in Rachel's word...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    JOSEPH: That is, Adding...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    14-24 The desire, good in itself, but often too great and irregular, of being the mother of the promised Seed, with the honour of having many children, and the reproach of being barren, were causes of...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    No text from Poole on this verse....

  • 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 30:24 called H7121 (H8799) name H8034 Joseph H3130 said H559 (H8800) LORD H3068 add H3254 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘And God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her and opened her womb. And she conceived and bore a son and said, “God has taken away my reproach.” And she called his name Joseph (yoseph), saying, “...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Jacob's posterity in Padan-aram. Another bargain between Jacob and Laban. CHARACTERS: Rachael, Jacob, Laban, Leah, Joseph. CONCLUSION: The toiling and scheming of men is the result of igno...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Genesis 30:2. _Am I in God's stead._ Rachel's impatience provoked Jacob's anger, because she asked of man whist was the prerogative of God to give. The rabbins remark here, that God keeps in his own h...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _And God remembered Rachel_ GOD’S FAVOUR TOWARDS RACHEL I. IT WAS LONG DELAYER. Discipline. II. IT WAS GRANTED TO HER AFTER SOME SOLEMN LESSONS HAD BEEN LEARNED. 1. Dependence. 2. Patience. 3. F...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 30:22 GOD REMEMBERED RACHEL. On God’s “remembering,” see note on 8:1. GOD HAS TAKEN AWAY MY REPROACH. A woman’s inability to bear children could be inter

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES.— Genesis 30:23. My reproach.] That is, the reproach of my barrenness. (See Luke 1:25; 1 Samuel 1:6; Isaiah 4:1,...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION GENESIS 30:14 AND REUBEN (at this time four or five years old) WENT (probably accompanying the reapers) IN THE DAYS OF WHEAT HARVEST, AND FOUND MANDRAKES—דּוּדָאים, μῆλα μαδραγορῶν,_ _(L...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Now when Rachel saw that she could not bare Jacob children, Rachel envied her sister; and she said to Jacob, Give me children, or else I'm going to die. And Jacob was angry with her: and he said, Am I...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    And she. Genesis 35:24 Genesis 37:2 Genesis 37:4 Genesis 39:1 Genesis 42:6

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