Genesis 29:18
Old Testament • 10 words with Strong's data
"And Jacob loved Rachel; and said, I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter."
Word-by-Word Analysis
יַעֲקֹב
Yaʻăqôb
Jaakob, the Israelitish patriarch
אָהַב
ʼâhab
to have affection for (sexually or otherwise)
אָמַר
ʼâmar
to say (used with great latitude)
עָבַד
ʻâbad
to work (in any sense); by implication, to serve, till, (causatively) enslave, etc.
שֶׁבַע
shebaʻ
seven (as the sacred full one); also (adverbially) seven times; by implication, a week; by extension, an indefinite number
שָׁנֶה
shâneh
a year (as a revolution of time)
קָטָן
qâṭân
abbreviated, i.e. diminutive, literally (in quantity, size or number) or figuratively (in age or importance)
בַּת
bath
a daughter (used in the same wide sense as other terms of relationship, literally and figuratively)
Key Terms in This Verse
קָטָן qâṭân
abbreviated, i.e. diminutive, literally (in quantity, size or number) or figuratively (in age or importance)
Study H6996 →עָבַד ʻâbad
to work (in any sense); by implication, to serve, till, (causatively) enslave, etc.
Study H5647 →בַּת bath
a daughter (used in the same wide sense as other terms of relationship, literally and figuratively)
Study H1323 →שֶׁבַע shebaʻ
seven (as the sacred full one); also (adverbially) seven times; by implication, a week; by extension, an indefinite number
Study H7651 →Cross References
And Jacob fled into the country of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheep.
Ask me never so much dowry and gift, and I will give according as ye shall say unto me: but give me the damsel to wife.
And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her.
And David sent messengers to Ishbosheth Saul’s son, saying, Deliver me my wife Michal, which I espoused to me for an hundred foreskins of the Philistines.
So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver, and for an homer of barley, and an half homer of barley:
Thus have I been twenty years in thy house; I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy cattle: and thou hast changed my wages ten times.
And he went in also unto Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.
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