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Genesis 27

Gen. 27:46 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And Rebekah
Ribqah (Hebrew #7259)
fettering (by beauty); Ribkah, the wife of Isaac
KJV usage: Rebekah.
Pronounce: rib-kaw'
Origin: from an unused root probably meaning to clog by tying up the fetlock
said
'amar (Hebrew #559)
to say (used with great latitude)
KJV usage: answer, appoint, avouch, bid, boast self, call, certify, challenge, charge, + (at the, give) command(-ment), commune, consider, declare, demand, X desire, determine, X expressly, X indeed, X intend, name, X plainly, promise, publish, report, require, say, speak (against, of), X still, X suppose, talk, tell, term, X that is, X think, use (speech), utter, X verily, X yet.
Pronounce: aw-mar'
Origin: a primitive root
to Isaac
Yitschaq (Hebrew #3327)
laughter (i.e. mochery); Jitschak (or Isaac), son of Abraham
KJV usage: Isaac. Compare 3446.
Pronounce: yits-khawk'
Origin: from 6711
, I am weary
quwts (Hebrew #6973)
to be (causatively, make) disgusted or anxious
KJV usage: abhor, be distressed, be grieved, loathe, vex, be weary.
Pronounce: koots
Origin: a primitive root (identical with 6972 through the idea of severing oneself from (compare 6962))
of my life
chay (Hebrew #2416)
alive; hence, raw (flesh); fresh (plant, water, year), strong; also (as noun, especially in the feminine singular and masculine plural) life (or living thing), whether literally or figuratively
KJV usage: + age, alive, appetite, (wild) beast, company, congregation, life(-time), live(-ly), living (creature, thing), maintenance, + merry, multitude, + (be) old, quick, raw, running, springing, troop.
Pronounce: khah'-ee
Origin: from 2421
b because
paniym (Hebrew #6440)
the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposition (before, etc.)
KJV usage: + accept, a-(be- )fore(-time), against, anger, X as (long as), at, + battle, + because (of), + beseech, countenance, edge, + employ, endure, + enquire, face, favour, fear of, for, forefront(-part), form(-er time, -ward), from, front, heaviness, X him(-self), + honourable, + impudent, + in, it, look(-eth) (- s), X me, + meet, X more than, mouth, of, off, (of) old (time), X on, open, + out of, over against, the partial, person, + please, presence, propect, was purposed, by reason of, + regard, right forth, + serve, X shewbread, sight, state, straight, + street, X thee, X them(-selves), through (+ - out), till, time(-s) past, (un-)to(-ward), + upon, upside (+ down), with(- in, + -stand), X ye, X you.
Pronounce: paw-neem'
Origin: plural (but always as singular) of an unused noun (paneh {paw-neh'}; from 6437)
of the daughters
bath (Hebrew #1323)
a daughter (used in the same wide sense as other terms of relationship, literally and figuratively)
KJV usage: apple (of the eye), branch, company, daughter, X first, X old, + owl, town, village.
Pronounce: bath
Origin: from 1129 (as feminine of 1121)
of Heth
Cheth (Hebrew #2845)
terror; Cheth, an aboriginal Canaanite
KJV usage: Heth.
Pronounce: khayth
Origin: from 2865
: if Jacob
Ya`aqob (Hebrew #3290)
heel-catcher (i.e. supplanter); Jaakob, the Israelitish patriarch
KJV usage: Jacob.
Pronounce: yah-ak-obe'
Origin: from 6117
take
laqach (Hebrew #3947)
to take (in the widest variety of applications)
KJV usage: accept, bring, buy, carry away, drawn, fetch, get, infold, X many, mingle, place, receive(-ing), reserve, seize, send for, take (away, -ing, up), use, win.
Pronounce: law-kakh'
Origin: a primitive root
a wife
'ishshah (Hebrew #802)
irregular plural, nashiym {naw-sheem'}; a woman (used in the same wide sense as 582)
KJV usage: (adulter)ess, each, every, female, X many, + none, one, + together, wife, woman. Often unexpressed in English.
Pronounce: ish-shaw'
Origin: feminine of 376 or 582
of the daughters
bath (Hebrew #1323)
a daughter (used in the same wide sense as other terms of relationship, literally and figuratively)
KJV usage: apple (of the eye), branch, company, daughter, X first, X old, + owl, town, village.
Pronounce: bath
Origin: from 1129 (as feminine of 1121)
of Heth
Cheth (Hebrew #2845)
terror; Cheth, an aboriginal Canaanite
KJV usage: Heth.
Pronounce: khayth
Origin: from 2865
, such as these which are of the daughters
bath (Hebrew #1323)
a daughter (used in the same wide sense as other terms of relationship, literally and figuratively)
KJV usage: apple (of the eye), branch, company, daughter, X first, X old, + owl, town, village.
Pronounce: bath
Origin: from 1129 (as feminine of 1121)
of the land
'erets (Hebrew #776)
the earth (at large, or partitively a land)
KJV usage: X common, country, earth, field, ground, land, X natins, way, + wilderness, world.
Pronounce: eh'-rets
Origin: from an unused root probably meaning to be firm
, what good
mah (Hebrew #4100)
or ma {maw}; or ma {mah}; also meh {meh}; a primitive particle; properly, interrogative what? (including how? why? when?); but also exclamation, what! (including how!), or indefinitely what (including whatever, and even relatively, that which); often used with prefixes in various adverbial or conjunctive senses
KJV usage: how (long, oft, (- soever)), (no-)thing, what (end, good, purpose, thing), whereby(-fore, -in, -to, -with), (for) why.
Pronounce: maw
Origin: or mah {mah}
shall my life
chay (Hebrew #2416)
alive; hence, raw (flesh); fresh (plant, water, year), strong; also (as noun, especially in the feminine singular and masculine plural) life (or living thing), whether literally or figuratively
KJV usage: + age, alive, appetite, (wild) beast, company, congregation, life(-time), live(-ly), living (creature, thing), maintenance, + merry, multitude, + (be) old, quick, raw, running, springing, troop.
Pronounce: khah'-ee
Origin: from 2421
do me?
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Gen. 26:35• 35and they were bitterness of spirit to Isaac and Rebecca. (Gen. 26:35)

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Rebekah,
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Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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I am.
Num. 11:15• 15And if thou deal thus with me, slay me, I pray thee, if I have found favour in thine eyes, that I may not behold my wretchedness. (Num. 11:15)
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1 Kings 19:4• 4And he went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree, and he requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough; now, O Jehovah, take away my life, for I am not better than my fathers. (1 Kings 19:4)
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Job 3:20‑22• 20Wherefore giveth he light to the wretched one,{HR}And life to the bitter [in] soul;
 21Who long for death, and it [is] not,{HR}And dig for it more than for hid treasure;
 22Who rejoice to dancing,{HR}Exult when they find the grave? (Job 3:20‑22)
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Job 7:16• 16I loathe it: let me alone; my days are vanity. (Job 7:16)
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Job 14:13• 13O that thou wouldest hide me in Sheol,{HR}Hide me till the turning of thine anger,{HR}Appoint me a set time, and then remember me! (Job 14:13)
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Jonah 4:3,9• 3Therefore now, O Jehovah, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.
 9And God said to Jonah, Doest thou well to be angry for the gourd? And he said, I do well to be angry, even unto death. (Jonah 4:3,9)
because.
Gen. 26:34‑35• 34And Esau was forty years old, when he took as wife Judith daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basmath daughter of Elon the Hittite;
 35and they were bitterness of spirit to Isaac and Rebecca. (Gen. 26:34‑35)
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Gen. 28:8• 8And Esau saw that the daughters of Canaan pleased not Isaac his father. (Gen. 28:8)
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Gen. 34:1‑2• 1And Dinah, daughter of Leah whom she bore to Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land.
 2And Shechem, son of Hamor the Hivite, prince of the land, saw her, and he took her, and lay with her, and humbled her. (Gen. 34:1‑2)
if Jacob.
Gen. 24:3• 3and I will make thee swear by Jehovah, the God of the heavens and the God of the earth, that thou take not a wife for my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell; (Gen. 24:3)
• But this at least can be said of Rebekah that she shared with Isaac bitterness of spirit over the Hittite wives of Esau, and that she was the more faithful of the two in grief at Esau's godless ways. This was what she pressed on her husband as to Jacob, that he might be saved from so ill an example. Yet there was an impatience in the tone which left not a little to be desired. But scripture tells us things as they were, even of the saints: as it alone reveals God to us. (“Isaac: 31. The Family Distracted: Genesis 27:41-46” by W. Kelly)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And Rebecca said to Isaac, I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth. If Jacob take a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these, of the daughters of the land, what good should my life do me?

W. Kelly Translation

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And Rebecca said to Isaac, I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth. If Jacob take a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these, of the daughters of the land, what good should my life be to me?