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.
Joseph] i.e. may God add a son. 'Taking away' the reproach of, childlessness is another meaning.
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...
- 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...
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...
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
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....
_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...
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...
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...
_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...
30:24 Joseph; (h-6) He will add....
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...
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...
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...
(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...
וַ תִּקְרָ֧א אֶת ־שְׁמֹ֛ו יֹוסֵ֖ף לֵ אמֹ֑ר
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...
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...
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...
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...
Joseph signifies adding....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The Birth of Joseph...
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...
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...
JOSEPH: That is, Adding...
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...
No text from Poole on this verse....
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...
Genesis 30:24 called H7121 (H8799) name H8034 Joseph H3130 said H559 (H8800) LORD H3068 add H3254 ...
‘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, “...
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...
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...
_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...
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
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,...
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...
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...
And she. Genesis 35:24 Genesis 37:2 Genesis 37:4 Genesis 39:1 Genesis 42:6