Genesis 12:1--14:24
said <0559> [had.]
<03212> [Get.]
blessing <01293> [thou shalt.]
bless .... bless ..................... bless <01288> [And I.]
families <04940> [in thee.]
Lot <03876> [and Lot.]
when ... departed ... Haran <03212 03318 02771> [departed out.]
<05315> [the souls.]
Haran <02771> [in.]
land ....... land <0776> [and into.]
Canaan ....... Canaan <03667> [Canaan.]
So called from Canaan the son of Ham, lies between the Mediterranean sea on the west, the wilderness of Paran, Idumea, and Egypt on the south, the mountains of Arabia on the east, and the mountains of Lebanon and Phoenicia on the north. Its length, from Dan to Beersheba, is about 200 miles, and its breadth, from the Mediterranean sea to its eastern borders, about 90.
traveled through <05674> [passed.]
Shechem <07927> [Sichem.]
[Shechem.]
[Sychar.]
[Sychem. plain.]
The word rendered "plain" should be rendered "oak," or according to Celsius, the "turpentine-tree."
Moreh <04176> [Moreh.]
Canaanites <03669> [Canaanite.]
appeared ......................... appeared <07200> [appeared.]
descendants <02233> [Unto thy.]
built <01129> [builded.]
Bethel ....... Bethel <01008> [of Beth-el.]
Ai <05857> [Hai.]
[Ai.]
[Aija.]
[Aiath. called.]
journeyed ... stages <01980 05265> [going on still. Heb. in going and journeying.]
famine .................. famine <07458> [A.M. 2084. B.C. 1920. was a.]
down <03381> [went.]
beautiful <03303> [a fair.]
kill <02026> [will kill.]
tell <0559> [Say.]
sister <0269> [thou.]
life <05315> [and.]
saw <07200> [beheld.]
officials <08269> [princes.]
Pharaoh was a common name of the Egyptian kings, and signified a "ruler," or "king," or "father of his country." # 40:2 41:1 Ex 2:5,15 1Ki 3:1 2Ki 18:21 Jer 25:19 46:17 Eze 32:2
Abram's .... taken <03947> [taken.]
treat ... well ........ sheep .... male donkeys <03190 06629 02543> [And he.]
sheep <06629> [he had.]
Negev <05045> [A.M. 2086. B.C. 1918. the south.]
The south of Canaan; as in leaving Egypt, it is said he "came from the south," (ver. 3,) and the southern part of the promised land lay north-east of Egypt.
Negev <05045> [from.]
[Beth-el and Hai. i.e., The place which was afterwards called Bethel by Jacob, and so called when Moses wrote; for its first name was Luz.]
(ch. 28:19.)
place <04725> [Unto.]
worshiped <07121> [called.]
tents <0168> [tents.]
quarrels <07379> [a strife.]
Canaanites <03669> [Canaanite.]
[dwelled. i.e., They were there when Abram and Lot came to pitch their tents in the land.]
be <01961> [Let.]
relatives <0251> [brethren. Heb. men, brethren.]
land <0776> [Is not.]
left <08040> [if thou wilt.]
saw <07200> [and beheld.]
region <03603> [the plain.]
garden <01588> [the garden.]
Zoar <06820> [Zoar.]
Instead of "Zoar," which was situated at the extremity of the plain of Jordan, the Syriac reads "Zoan," which was situated in the south of Egypt, and in a well-watered country.
chose <0977> [A.M. 2087. B.C. 1917. chose.]
separated <06504> [they.]
settled ........ Lot settled <03427 03876> [Lot dwelled.]
pitched <0167> [pitched.]
<0582> [But the.]
Lord <03068> [before.]
departed <06504> [was.]
<05375> [Lift.]
north <06828> [northward.]
oaks <0436> [plain. Heb. plains. Mamre.]
Hebron <02275> [Hebron.]
altar <04196> [altar.]
[A.M. 2091. B.C. 1913.]
Shinar <08152> [Shinar.]
Ellasar <0495> [Ellasar.]
Elam <05867> [Elam.]
Sodom <05467> [Sodom.]
Admah <0126> [Admah.]
Zeboiim <06636> [Zeboiim.]
Zoar <06820> [Zoar.]
Salt Sea <03220 04417> [salt sea.]
served <05647> [they served.]
rebelled <04775> [they rebelled.]
Rephaites <07497> [Rephaims.]
Ashteroth Karnaim <06255> [Ashteroth.]
The same as Ashteroth, a city of Bashan, where Og afterwards reigned.
Zuzites <02104> [Zuzims.]
Emites <0368> [Emims.]
Shaveh Kiriathaim <07741> [Shaveh Kiriathaim. or, the plains of Kiriathaim;]
Kiriathaim was beyond Jordan, 10 miles west-ward from Medeba, and afterwards belonged to Sihon, king of Heshbon.
Horites <02752> [Horites.]
Paran <0364> [El-paran. or, the plain of Paran.]
Kadesh <06946> [Kadesh.]
En-mishpat or Kadesh, was about 8 leagues south of Hebron.
Amalekites <06003> [Amalekites.]
Hazazon Tamar <02688> [Hazezon-tamar.]
Called by the Chaldee, "En-gaddi," a town on the western shore of the Dead Sea.
that is <01931> [same.]
Valley <06010> [in.]
pits <0875> [slime pits.]
Places where asphaltus or bitumen sprung out of the ground: this substance which is properly denoted by the word "slime," abounds in these parts.
fell <05307> [fell.]
hills <02022> [the mountain.]
Lot <03876> [Lot.]
living <03427> [who.]
fugitive <06412> [one.]
Hebrew ........ oaks ..... Amorite <05680 0436 0567> [the.]
living <07931> [dwelt.]
Mamre <04471> [Mamre.]
Amorite <0567> [Amorite.]
allied <01167> [and these.]
nephew <0251> [his brother.]
mobilized <07324> [armed. or, led forth.]
trained <02593> [trained. or, instructed. born.]
Dan <01835> [Dan.]
divided <02505> [And he.]
defeated <05221> [smote.]
Damascus <01834> [Damascus.]
meet <07125> [to.]
After <0310> [after.]
kings ....... king ................. King's <04428> [king's.]
king <04428> [king.]
bread <03899> [bread.]
priest <03548> [the priest.]
Most <05945> [the most.]
blessed .... Blessed <01288> [he blessed.]
blessed .... Blessed ... Abram <01288 087> [Blessed be.]
Most <05945> [high.]
Creator <07069> [possessor.]
Worthy of praise <01288> [blessed.]
delivered <04042> [which.]
tenth <04643> [tithes.]
me ... people <05315> [persons. Heb. souls.]
raise <07311> [lift.]
Lord <03068> [unto.]
Most <05945> [the most.]
Creator <07069> [possessor.]
<0518> [That I.]
say <0559> [lest.]
nothing except <01107> [Save.]
Aner <06063> [Aner.]
them <01992> [let.]
Genesis 20:1-18
Negev <05045> [A.M. cir. 2107. B.C. cir. 1897. from.]
Kadesh <06946> [Kadesh.]
Gerar <01642> [Gerar.]
Gerar was a city of Arabia Petr‘a, under a king of the Philistines, 25 miles from Eleutheropolis beyond Daroma, in the south of Judah. From ch. 10:19, it appears to have been situated in the angle where the south and west sides of Canaan met, and to have been not far from Gaza. Jerome, in his Hebrew Traditions on Genesis, says, from Gerar to Jerusalem was three days' journey. There was a wood near Gerar, spoken of by Theodoret; and a brook, (ch. 26:26,) on which was a monastery, noticed by Sozomen.
said <0559> [said.]
Abimelech <040> [Abimelech.]
dream <02472> [a dream.]
dead <04191> [a dead.]
someone else's wife <01166 01167> [a man's wife. Heb. married to an husband.]
near <07126> [had.]
slaughter <02026> [wilt.]
conscience <08537> [in the integrity. or, simplicity, or sincerity.]
innocent <05356> [and innocency.]
kept <02820> [withheld.]
sinning <02398> [sinning.]
touch <05060> [to touch.]
prophet <05030> [a prophet.]
The word {navi,} rendered a prophet, not only signifies one who foretell future events, but also an intercessor, instructor. See 1 Sa ch. 10.
The title was also given to men eminent for eloquence and literary abilities: hence Aaron, because he was the spokesman of Moses to the Egyptian king, is called a prophet. .# Ex 4:16 7:1 12:1-3 18:17 7:1 1Ch 16:22 Ps 25:14 105:9-15 .# Heb 1:1
pray <06419> [pray.]
die <04191> [surely.]
[all.]
done ........................... done ......... done <06213> [What hast.]
great <01419> [a great.]
done ........................... done ......... done <06213> [ought.]
Surely <07535> [Surely.]
kill <02026> [slay.]
indeed <0546> [And yet.]
daughter ...... daughter <01323> [she is the.]
Ebn Batrik, in his annals, among other ancient traditions, has preserved the following: "Terah first married Yona, by whom he had Abraham; afterwards he married Tehevita, by whom he had Sarah."
God <0430> [God.]
loyalty <02617> [This.]
told ................... say <0559> [say.]
gave <03947> [took.]
back <07725> [restored.]
land <0776> [my land.]
wherever <02896> [where it pleaseth thee. Heb. as is good in thine eyes.]
brother <0251> [thy.]
thousand <0505> [thousand.]
What these pieces were is not certain; but it is probable they were shekels, as it is so understood by the Targum; and the LXX. render it {didrachma,} by which the Hebrew shekel is rendered in ch. 23:15, 16.
compensation <05414 03682> [behold.]
Or, "behold IT (the 1,000 shekels) is to thee," etc.
compensation <03682> [a covering.]
vindicated <03198> [thus.]
