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Genesis 29

Gen. 29:30 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And he went in
bow' (Hebrew #935)
to go or come (in a wide variety of applications)
KJV usage: abide, apply, attain, X be, befall, + besiege, bring (forth, in, into, to pass), call, carry, X certainly, (cause, let, thing for) to come (against, in, out, upon, to pass), depart, X doubtless again, + eat, + employ, (cause to) enter (in, into, -tering, -trance, -try), be fallen, fetch, + follow, get, give, go (down, in, to war), grant, + have, X indeed, (in-)vade, lead, lift (up), mention, pull in, put, resort, run (down), send, set, X (well) stricken (in age), X surely, take (in), way.
Pronounce: bo
Origin: a primitive root
also unto Rachel
Rachel (Hebrew #7354)
Rachel, a wife of Jacob
KJV usage: Rachel.
Pronounce: raw-khale'
Origin: the same as 7353
, and he loved
'ahab (Hebrew #157)
a primitive root; to have affection for (sexually or otherwise)
KJV usage: (be-)love(-d, -ly, -r), like, friend.
Pronounce: aw-hab'
Origin: or raheb {aw-habe'}
also Rachel
Rachel (Hebrew #7354)
Rachel, a wife of Jacob
KJV usage: Rachel.
Pronounce: raw-khale'
Origin: the same as 7353
g more than Leah
Le'ah (Hebrew #3812)
weary; Leah, a wife of Jacob
KJV usage: Leah.
Pronounce: lay-aw'
Origin: from 3811
, and served
`abad (Hebrew #5647)
to work (in any sense); by implication, to serve, till, (causatively) enslave, etc.
KJV usage: X be, keep in bondage, be bondmen, bond-service, compel, do, dress, ear, execute, + husbandman, keep, labour(-ing man, bring to pass, (cause to, make to) serve(-ing, self), (be, become) servant(-s), do (use) service, till(-er), transgress (from margin), (set a) work, be wrought, worshipper,
Pronounce: aw-bad'
Origin: a primitive root
with him yet seven
sheba` (Hebrew #7651)
from 7650; a primitive cardinal number; seven (as the sacred full one); also (adverbially) seven times; by implication, a week; by extension, an indefinite number
KJV usage: (+ by) seven(-fold),-s, (-teen, -teenth), -th, times). Compare 7658.
Pronounce: sheh'-bah
Origin: or (masculine) shibrah {shib-aw'}
other
'acher (Hebrew #312)
properly, hinder; generally, next, other, etc.
KJV usage: (an-)other man, following, next, strange.
Pronounce: akh-air'
Origin: from 309
years
shaneh (Hebrew #8141)
from 8138; a year (as a revolution of time)
KJV usage: + whole age, X long, + old, year(X -ly).
Pronounce: shaw-neh'
Origin: (in plura or (feminine) shanah {shaw-naw'}
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Gen. 29:20• 20And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her. (Gen. 29:20)
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Deut. 21:15• 15If a man have two wives, one beloved, and another hated, and they have born him children, both the beloved and the hated; and if the firstborn son be hers that was hated: (Deut. 21:15)

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Rachel,
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Cross References

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he loved.
Gen. 29:20,31• 20And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her.
 31And when the Lord saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb: but Rachel was barren. (Gen. 29:20,31)
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Gen. 44:20,27• 20And we said unto my lord, We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother, and his father loveth him.
 27And thy servant my father said unto us, Ye know that my wife bare me two sons: (Gen. 44:20,27)
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Deut. 21:15• 15If a man have two wives, one beloved, and another hated, and they have born him children, both the beloved and the hated; and if the firstborn son be hers that was hated: (Deut. 21:15)
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Matt. 6:24• 24No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon. (Matt. 6:24)
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Matt. 10:37• 37He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. (Matt. 10:37)
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Luke 14:26• 26If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple. (Luke 14:26)
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John 12:25• 25He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal. (John 12:25)
served.
Gen. 29:18• 18And Jacob loved Rachel; and said, I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter. (Gen. 29:18)
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Gen. 30:25‑26• 25And it came to pass, when Rachel had born Joseph, that Jacob said unto Laban, Send me away, that I may go unto mine own place, and to my country.
 26Give me my wives and my children, for whom I have served thee, and let me go: for thou knowest my service which I have done thee. (Gen. 30:25‑26)
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Gen. 31:15,41• 15Are we not counted of him strangers? for he hath sold us, and hath quite devoured also our money.
 41Thus 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. (Gen. 31:15,41)
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1 Sam. 18:17‑27• 17And Saul said to David, Behold my elder daughter Merab, her will I give thee to wife: only be thou valiant for me, and fight the Lord's battles. For Saul said, Let not mine hand be upon him, but let the hand of the Philistines be upon him.
 18And David said unto Saul, Who am I? and what is my life, or my father's family in Israel, that I should be son in law to the king?
 19But it came to pass at the time when Merab Saul's daughter should have been given to David, that she was given unto Adriel the Meholathite to wife.
 20And Michal Saul's daughter loved David: and they told Saul, and the thing pleased him.
 21And Saul said, I will give him her, that she may be a snare to him, and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him. Wherefore Saul said to David, Thou shalt this day be my son in law in the one of the twain.
 22And Saul commanded his servants, saying, Commune with David secretly, and say, Behold, the king hath delight in thee, and all his servants love thee: now therefore be the king's son in law.
 23And Saul's servants spake those words in the ears of David. And David said, Seemeth it to you a light thing to be a king's son in law, seeing that I am a poor man, and lightly esteemed?
 24And the servants of Saul told him, saying, On this manner spake David.
 25And Saul said, Thus shall ye say to David, The king desireth not any dowry, but an hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged of the king's enemies. But Saul thought to make David fall by the hand of the Philistines.
 26And when his servants told David these words, it pleased David well to be the king's son in law: and the days were not expired.
 27Wherefore David arose and went, he and his men, and slew of the Philistines two hundred men; and David brought their foreskins, and they gave them in full tale to the king, that he might be the king's son in law. And Saul gave him Michal his daughter to wife. (1 Sam. 18:17‑27)
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Hos. 12:12• 12And Jacob fled into the country of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheep. (Hos. 12:12)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And he went in also to Rachel; and he loved also Rachel more than Leah. And he served with himd yet seven other years.

JND Translation Notes

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Or "served him."