Genesis 25:34
Old Testament • 15 words with Strong's data
"Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentiles; and he did eat and drink, and rose up, and went his way: thus Esau despised his birthright."
Word-by-Word Analysis
יַעֲקֹב
Yaʻăqôb
Jaakob, the Israelitish patriarch
נָתַן
nâthan
to give, used with greatest latitude of application (put, make, etc.)
עֵשָׂו
ʻÊsâv
Esav, a son of Isaac, including his posterity
לֶחֶם
lechem
food (for man or beast), especially bread, or grain (for making it)
English grammatical function word ('lentiles'). These words (articles, prepositions, conjunctions, pronouns, auxiliary verbs) have no direct equivalen...
אָכַל
ʼâkal
to eat (literally or figuratively)
שָׁתָה
shâthâh
to imbibe (literally or figuratively)
קוּם
qûwm
to rise (in various applications, literal, figurative, intensive and causative)
יָלַךְ
yâlak
to walk (literally or figuratively); causatively, to carry (in various senses)
דֶּרֶךְ
derek
a road (as trodden); figuratively, a course of life or mode of action, often adverb
עֵשָׂו
ʻÊsâv
Esav, a son of Isaac, including his posterity
בְּכוֹרָה
bᵉkôwrâh
the firstling of man or beast; abstractly primogeniture
Key Terms in This Verse
English grammatical function word ('lentiles'). These words (articles, prepositions, conjunctions, pronouns, auxiliary verbs) have no direct equivalent in the original Hebrew or Greek text; they are r...
Study GRAM →בְּכוֹרָה bᵉkôwrâh
the firstling of man or beast; abstractly primogeniture
Study H1062 →קוּם qûwm
to rise (in various applications, literal, figurative, intensive and causative)
Study H6965 →לֶחֶם lechem
food (for man or beast), especially bread, or grain (for making it)
Study H3899 →Cross References
And said unto them, What will ye give me, and I will deliver him unto you? And they covenanted with him for thirty pieces of silver.
And behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine: let us eat and drink; for to morrow we shall die.
If after the manner of men I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, what advantageth it me, if the dead rise not? let us eat and drink; for to morrow we die.
Behold, ye despisers, and wonder, and perish: for I work a work in your days, a work which ye shall in no wise believe, though a man declare it unto you.
But they made light of it, and went their ways, one to his farm, another to his merchandise:
And the LORD said unto me, Cast it unto the potter: a goodly price that I was prised at of them. And I took the thirty pieces of silver, and cast them to the potter in the house of the LORD.
Yea, they despised the pleasant land, they believed not his word:
Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall abide with him of his labour the days of his life, which God giveth...
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