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Genesis 30

Gen. 30:41 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And it came to pass, whensoever the stronger
qashar (Hebrew #7194)
a primitive root: to tie, physically (gird, confine, compact) or mentally (in love, league)
KJV usage: bind (up), (make a) conspire(-acy, -ator), join together, knit, stronger, work (treason).
Pronounce: kaw-shar'
cattle
tso'n (Hebrew #6629)
from an unused root meaning to migrate; a collective name for a flock (of sheep or goats); also figuratively (of men)
KJV usage: (small) cattle, flock (+ -s), lamb (+ -s), sheep((-cote, -fold, -shearer, -herds)).
Pronounce: tsone
Origin: or tsaown (Psalm 144:13) {tseh-one'}
did conceive
yacham (Hebrew #3179)
probably to be hot; figuratively, to conceive
KJV usage: get heat, be hot, conceive, be warm.
Pronounce: yaw-kham'
Origin: a primitive root
, that Jacob
Ya`aqob (Hebrew #3290)
heel-catcher (i.e. supplanter); Jaakob, the Israelitish patriarch
KJV usage: Jacob.
Pronounce: yah-ak-obe'
Origin: from 6117
laid
suwm (Hebrew #7760)
a primitive root; to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)
KJV usage: X any wise, appoint, bring, call (a name), care, cast in, change, charge, commit, consider, convey, determine, + disguise, dispose, do, get, give, heap up, hold, impute, lay (down, up), leave, look, make (out), mark, + name, X on, ordain, order, + paint, place, preserve, purpose, put (on), + regard, rehearse, reward, (cause to) set (on, up), shew, + stedfastly, take, X tell, + tread down, ((over-))turn, X wholly, work.
Pronounce: soom
Origin: or siym {seem}
the rods
maqqel (Hebrew #4731)
from an unused root meaning apparently to germinate; a shoot, i.e. stick (with leaves on, or for walking, striking, guiding, divining)
KJV usage: rod, ((hand- ))staff.
Pronounce: mak-kale;
Origin: or (feminine) maqqlah {mak-kel-aw'}
before the eyes
`ayin (Hebrew #5869)
an eye (literally or figuratively); by analogy, a fountain (as the eye of the landscape)
KJV usage: affliction, outward appearance, + before, + think best, colour, conceit, + be content, countenance, + displease, eye((-brow), (-d), -sight), face, + favour, fountain, furrow (from the margin), X him, + humble, knowledge, look, (+ well), X me, open(-ly), + (not) please, presence, + regard, resemblance, sight, X thee, X them, + think, X us, well, X you(-rselves).
Pronounce: ah'-yin
Origin: probably a primitive word
of the cattle
tso'n (Hebrew #6629)
from an unused root meaning to migrate; a collective name for a flock (of sheep or goats); also figuratively (of men)
KJV usage: (small) cattle, flock (+ -s), lamb (+ -s), sheep((-cote, -fold, -shearer, -herds)).
Pronounce: tsone
Origin: or tsaown (Psalm 144:13) {tseh-one'}
in the gutters
rahat (Hebrew #7298)
a channel or watering-box; by resemblance a ringlet of hair (as forming parallel lines)
KJV usage: gallery, gutter, trough.
Pronounce: rah'-hat
Origin: from an unused root apparently meaning to hollow out
, that they might conceive
yacham (Hebrew #3179)
probably to be hot; figuratively, to conceive
KJV usage: get heat, be hot, conceive, be warm.
Pronounce: yaw-kham'
Origin: a primitive root
among the rods
maqqel (Hebrew #4731)
from an unused root meaning apparently to germinate; a shoot, i.e. stick (with leaves on, or for walking, striking, guiding, divining)
KJV usage: rod, ((hand- ))staff.
Pronounce: mak-kale;
Origin: or (feminine) maqqlah {mak-kel-aw'}
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Cross References

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whensoever the stronger cattle did conceive.As the means which Jacob used would not in general produce similar effects, nay, probably the experiment was never in any other instance tried with effect, it is more in harmony with Divine truth to suppose that he was directed by some Divine intimation; and rendered successful, if not by a direct miracle, yet at least by the Lord's giving a new and uncommon bias to the tendency of natural causes.
Gen. 30:41• 41And it came to pass, whensoever the stronger cattle did conceive, that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the cattle in the gutters, that they might conceive among the rods. (Gen. 30:41)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And it came to pass whensoever the strong cattle were ardent, that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the flock in the gutters, that they might become ardent among the rods;