Genesis 21:33
in Genesis 21And Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and there he called upon the name of the LORD, the Eternal God.
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ASV
And Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beer-sheba, and called there on the name of Jehovah, the Everlasting God.
KJV
And Abraham planted a grove in Beer–sheba, and called there on the name of the Lord, the everlasting God.
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This verse in Genesis 21
Commentary
10 notes on this verseA commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
Abraham planted a grove--Hebrew, "of tamarisks," in which sacrificial worship was offered, as in a roofless temple.
This site's exposition
After they had made the covenant at Beersheba
on Genesis 21:32-33
Abimelech and Phicol returned to the land of the Philistines. Abraham planted a tamarisk tree, the tree of a man who expects to stay. He called on the LORD there by a title Genesis uses here and nowhere earlier, the Eternal God. Beersheba becomes the family's southern ground, and Isaac swears his own oath there at 26:33.
This site's exposition
planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba
Abraham planted the tamarisk and called upon the name of the LORD there. Jamieson, Fausset and Brown read a grove of tamarisks, where offerings were made as in a temple open to the sky. Matthew Henry says the place became his house of prayer.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening5 voices
There he made, not only a constant practice, but an open profession, of his religion: There he called on the name of the Lord, the everlasting God, probably in the grove he planted, which was his oratory or house of prayer. Christ prayed in a garden, on a mountain. (1.) Abraham kept up public worship, to which, probably, his neighbours resorted, that they might join with him.
3 And Abraham called the name of his son that was born unto him, whom Sarah bare to him, Isaac. 4 And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac being eight days old, as God had commanded him. 5 And Abraham was an hundred years old, when his son Isaac was born unto him.
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And called there on the name of the Lord - Probably in the grove he planted, which was his oratory, or house of prayer: he kept up publick worship, to which probably his neighbours resorted, and joined with him.
And Abraham planted a grove in Beersheba,....
There he made, not only a constant practice, but an open profession, of his religion: There he called on the name of the Lord, the everlasting God, probably in the grove he planted, which was his oratory or house of prayer. Christ prayed in a garden, on a mountain. (1.) Abraham kept up public worship, to which, probably, his neighbours resorted, that they might join with him.
2 more voices on this verse
The Nineteenth Century2 voices
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
Abraham planted a grove--Hebrew, "of tamarisks," in which sacrificial worship was offered, as in a roofless temple.
Abraham planted a grove - The original word אשל eshel has been variously translated a grove, a plantation, an orchard, a cultivated field, and an oak. From this word, says Mr. Parkhurst, may be derived the name of the famous asylum, opened by Romulus between two groves of oaks at Rome; (μεθοριον δυοιν δρυμως, Dionys. Hal., lib. ii. c.
The words behind it
10 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וַיִּטַּ֥ע | vaiyita' | and he planted | H5193 → | 58 times |
| אֶ֖שֶׁל | ʾeshel | a tamarisk tree | H815 → | |
| בִּבְאֵ֣ר | biver | in Beer | H884 → | 68 times |
| שָׁ֑בַע | shava' | Sheba | H884 → | 68 times |
| וַיִּ֨קְרָא־ | vaiyikra'- | and he called | H7121 → | 733 times |
| שָׁ֔ם | sham | there | H8033 → | 834 times |
| בְּשֵׁ֥ם | beshem | on [the] name of | H8034 → | 864 times |
| יְהוָ֖ה | yahweh | Yahweh | H3068 → | 6520 times |
| אֵ֥ל | ʾel | [the] God of | H410 → | 241 times |
| עוֹלָֽם׃ | olam | perpetuity | H5769 → | 438 times |
וַיִּטַּ֥עand he planted
vaiyita'H5193 →58 times
אֶ֖שֶׁלa tamarisk tree
ʾeshelH815 →
בִּבְאֵ֣רin Beer
biverH884 →68 times
שָׁ֑בַעSheba
shava'H884 →68 times
וַיִּ֨קְרָא־and he called
vaiyikra'-H7121 →733 times
שָׁ֔םthere
shamH8033 →834 times
בְּשֵׁ֥םon [the] name of
beshemH8034 →864 times
יְהוָ֖הYahweh
yahwehH3068 →6520 times
אֵ֥ל[the] God of
ʾelH410 →241 times
עוֹלָֽם׃perpetuity
olamH5769 →438 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Isaiah 40:28Do you not know? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary; His understanding is beyond searching…
it leads to
- Romans 11:33–34
O, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments, and untraceable His ways!
- Psalms 147:5
Great is our Lord, and mighty in power; His understanding has no limit.
- 1 Timothy 1:17
Now to the King eternal, immortal, and invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.
- Isaiah 55:8–9
“For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways,” declares the LORD.
- Philippians 1:6
being confident of this, that He who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.
- Romans 11:33–34
Through
Psalms 90:2Before the mountains were born or You brought forth the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting You are God.
it leads to
- Hebrews 13:8
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.
- Genesis 1:1
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
- Hebrews 13:8
Through
1 Timothy 1:17Now to the King eternal, immortal, and invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.
it leads to
- Ephesians 3:20–21
Now to Him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to His power that is at work within us,
- Ephesians 3:20–21
Where this verse is studied
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Who and where
2 names in this verse with a page on the site.
- PersonPatriarchsAbrahamCalled out of Ur, the father of all who believe, justified by faith, and the friend of God through whose seed all nations are bles…
- PlaceThe NegevBeershebaThe well of the oath at the south of the land, where Abraham made his covenant with Abimelech and planted a tamarisk, where Isaac…
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.