Genesis 25:29
in Genesis 25One day, while Jacob was cooking some stew, Esau came in from the field and was famished.
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ASV
And Jacob boiled pottage: and Esau came in from the field, and he was faint:
KJV
And Jacob sod pottage: and Esau came from the field, and he was faint:
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This verse in Genesis 25
Commentary
8 notes on this verseSod pottage - יזד נזיד yazed nazid, he boiled a boiling; and this we are informed, Gen 25:34, was of עדשים adashim, what the Septuagint render φακος, and we, following them and the Vulgate lens, translate lentils, a sort of pulse.
This site's exposition
while Jacob was cooking some stew
on Genesis 25:29-30
Jacob has the pot on when Esau comes in from the field famished, and the older writers divide over whether that was accident or waiting. Esau asks for the food by its colour, that red stew, and names nothing else about it. The name Edom is fixed from that sentence.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening4 voices
) for his dinner, and was sitting down to it contentedly enough, without venison, when Esau came from hunting, hungry and weary, and perhaps had caught nothing. And now Jacob's pottage pleased his eye better than ever his game had done. Give me (says he) some of that red, that red, as it is in the original; it suited his own colour (
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And Jacob sod pottage,....
Marriage is not forbidden to old age. By her he had six sons, in whom the promise made to Abraham concerning the great increase of his posterity was in part fulfilled, which, it is likely, he had an eye to this marriage. The strength he received by the promise still remained in him, to show how much the virtue of the promise exceeds the power of nature.
Marriage is not forbidden to old age. By her he had six sons, in whom the promise made to Abraham concerning the great increase of his posterity was in part fulfilled, which, it is likely, he had an eye to this marriage. The strength he received by the promise still remained in him, to show how much the virtue of the promise exceeds the power of nature.
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
Jacob sod pottage--made of lentils or small beans, which are common in Egypt and Syria. It is probable that it was made of Egyptian beans, which Jacob had procured as a dainty; for Esau was a stranger to it.
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The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
Jacob sod pottage--made of lentils or small beans, which are common in Egypt and Syria. It is probable that it was made of Egyptian beans, which Jacob had procured as a dainty; for Esau was a stranger to it.
The words behind it
9 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וַיָּ֥זֶד | vaiyazed | and he had cooked | H2102 → | |
| יַעֲקֹ֖ב | yaako | Jacob | H3290 → | 350 times |
| נָזִ֑יד | nazid | cooked food | H5138 → | |
| וַיָּבֹ֥א | vaiyavo' | and he came | H935 → | 2568 times |
| עֵשָׂ֛ו | ʾesav | Esau | H6215 → | 97 times |
| מִן־ | min- | from | H4480 → | 1188 times |
| הַשָּׂדֶ֖ה | hasadeh | the field | H7704 → | 334 times |
| וְה֥וּא | vehu' | and he | H1931 → | 1879 times |
| עָיֵֽף׃ | ʾayef | [was] exhausted | H5889 → |
וַיָּ֥זֶדand he had cooked
vaiyazedH2102 →
יַעֲקֹ֖בJacob
yaakoH3290 →350 times
נָזִ֑ידcooked food
nazidH5138 →
וַיָּבֹ֥אand he came
vaiyavo'H935 →2568 times
עֵשָׂ֛וEsau
ʾesavH6215 →97 times
מִן־from
min-H4480 →1188 times
הַשָּׂדֶ֖הthe field
hasadehH7704 →334 times
וְה֥וּאand he
vehu'H1931 →1879 times
עָיֵֽף׃[was] exhausted
ʾayefH5889 →
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
Proverbs 13:25A righteous man eats to his heart’s content, but the stomach of the wicked is empty.
it leads to
- Psalms 34:10
Young lions go lacking and hungry, but those who seek the LORD lack no good thing.
- Proverbs 10:3
The LORD does not let the righteous go hungry, but He denies the craving of the wicked.
- Hebrews 13:5
Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, for God has said: “Never will I leave you, never will I forsake you.”
- 1 Timothy 4:8
For physical exercise is of limited value, but godliness is valuable in every way, holding promise for the present life and for the one to come.
- Psalms 34:10
Through
1 Samuel 14:31That day, after the Israelites had struck down the Philistines from Michmash to Aijalon, the people were very faint.
it leads to
- Joshua 10:12
On the day that the LORD gave the Amorites over to the Israelites, Joshua spoke to the LORD in the presence of Israel: “O sun, stand still over Gibeon, O moon, over the Valley…
- Joshua 19:42
Shaalabbin, Aijalon, Ithlah,
- Joshua 10:12
Through
1 Samuel 14:28Then one of the soldiers told him, “Your father bound the troops with a solemn oath, saying, ‘Cursed is the man who eats food today.’ That is why the people are faint.”
it leads to
- 1 Samuel 14:43
“Tell me what you have done,” Saul commanded him. So Jonathan told him, “I only tasted a little honey with the end of the staff that was in my hand. And now I must…
- 1 Samuel 14:24
Now the men of Israel were in distress that day, for Saul had placed the troops under an oath, saying, “Cursed is the man who eats any food before evening, before I have taken…
- 1 Samuel 14:43
Where this verse is studied
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2 names in this verse with a page on the site.
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; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.