Genesis 25:20
Old Testament • 14 words with Strong's data
"And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah to wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padanaram, the sister to Laban the Syrian."
Word-by-Word Analysis
יִצְחָק
Yitschâq
Jitschak (or Isaac), son of Abraham
שָׁנֶה
shâneh
a year (as a revolution of time)
בֵּן
bên
a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or ...
לָקַח
lâqach
to take (in the widest variety of applications)
בַּת
bath
a daughter (used in the same wide sense as other terms of relationship, literally and figuratively)
בְּתוּאֵל
Bᵉthûwʼêl
Bethuel, the name of a nephew of Abraham, and of a place in Palestine
פַּדָּן
Paddân
Paddan or Paddan-Aram, a region of Syria
אָחוֹת
ʼâchôwth
a sister (used very widely (like brother), literally and figuratively)
לָבָן
Lâbân
Laban, a Mesopotamian; also a place in the Desert
Key Terms in This Verse
בְּתוּאֵל Bᵉthûwʼêl
Bethuel, the name of a nephew of Abraham, and of a place in Palestine
Study H1328 →אָחוֹת ʼâchôwth
a sister (used very widely (like brother), literally and figuratively)
Study H269 →בַּת bath
a daughter (used in the same wide sense as other terms of relationship, literally and figuratively)
Study H1323 →Cross References
And Rebekah had a brother, and his name was Laban: and Laban ran out unto the man, unto the well.
And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife; and he loved her: and Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.
And Bethuel begat Rebekah: these eight Milcah did bear to Nahor, Abraham’s brother.
And God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream by night, and said unto him, Take heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad.
And thou shalt speak and say before the LORD thy God, A Syrian ready to perish was my father, and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there with a few, and became there a nation, great, mighty, and...
And he carried away all his cattle, and all his goods which he had gotten, the cattle of his getting, which he had gotten in Padanaram, for to go to Isaac his father in the land of Canaan.
And Jacob stole away unawares to Laban the Syrian, in that he told him not that he fled.
And God appeared unto Jacob again, when he came out of Padanaram, and blessed him.
And many lepers were in Israel in the time of Eliseus the prophet; and none of them was cleansed, saving Naaman the Syrian.
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