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Genesis 26:32

in Genesis 26

On that same day, Isaac’s servants came and told him about the well they had dug. “We have found water!” they told him.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And it came to pass the same day, that Isaac’s servants came, and told him concerning the well which they had digged, and said unto him, We have found water.

KJV

And it came to pass the same day, that Isaac’s servants came, and told him concerning the well which they had digged, and said unto him, We have found water.

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This verse in Genesis 26

Commentary

5 notes on this verse

A commentator

Jerome

Hebrew Questions on Genesis · Written before 420.

(Verse 32 and 33.) And the servants of Isaac came and told him about the well that they had dug, and they said to him, 'We have found water.' So he called it Shebah. I don't know how it is translated in the Septuagint: 'And the servants of Isaac came and told him about the well that they had dug, and they said to him, 'We have not found water.' So he called it Oath.' What is the etymology behind calling it Oath just because they did not find water?

This site's exposition

We have found water

on Genesis 26:32-33

His servants come the same day with word that they have found water. The oath and the well arrive together. He calls it Shibah, and the city keeps the name Beersheba, which his father had fixed on it at 21:31 after his own oath. The place is sworn over twice by two generations.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

34 And Esau was forty years old when he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite: 35 Which were a grief of mind unto Isaac and to Rebekah. Esau's foolish marriage--foolish, some think, in marrying two wives together, for which perhaps he is called a fornicator ( Heb. xii.

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And it came to pass the same day,....

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Then Abimelech went to him--As there was a lapse of ninety years between the visit of Abraham and of Isaac, the Abimelech and Phichol spoken of must have been different persons' official titles. Here is another proof of the promise (Ge 12:2) being fulfilled, in an overture of peace being made to him by the king of Gerar.

The words behind it

17 Hebrew words

Every 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.

  • וַיְהִ֣י׀and it was

    vayhiH1961 →3559 times

  • בַּיּ֣וֹםon the day

    baiyomH3117 →2304 times

  • הַה֗וּא<the> that

    hahu'H1931 →1879 times

  • וַיָּבֹ֙אוּ֙and they came

    vaiyavouH935 →2568 times

  • עַבְדֵ֣י[the] servants of

    ʾavdeiH5650 →799 times

  • יִצְחָ֔קIsaac

    yitzchakH3327 →108 times

  • וַיַּגִּ֣דוּand they told

    vaiyagiduH5046 →370 times

  • ל֔וֹto <the> him

    lo

  • עַל־on

    ʾal-H5921 →5755 times

  • אֹד֥וֹת[the] causes of

    ʾodotH182 →11 times

  • הַבְּאֵ֖רthe well

    habeerH875 →38 times

  • אֲשֶׁ֣רwhich

    ʾasherH834 →5497 times

  • חָפָ֑רוּthey had dug

    chafaruH2658 →22 times

  • וַיֹּ֥אמְרוּand they said

    vaiyomeruH559 →5305 times

  • ל֖וֹto <the> him

    lo

  • מָצָ֥אנוּwe have found

    matzanuH4672 →455 times

  • מָֽיִם׃water

    mayimH4325 →581 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

5 in all, six open

The walk

8 stops

Each 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

    Matthew 7:7

    Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you.

    it leads to

    • Matthew 21:22

      If you believe, you will receive whatever you ask for in prayer.”

    • 1 John 3:22

      and we will receive from Him whatever we ask, because we keep His commandments and do what is pleasing in His sight.

    • John 15:7

      If you remain in Me and My words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.

    • Mark 11:24

      Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.

    • Psalms 145:18–19

      The LORD is near to all who call on Him, to all who call out to Him in truth.

  • Through

    Proverbs 13:4

    The slacker craves yet has nothing, but the soul of the diligent is fully satisfied.

    it leads to

    • Proverbs 12:24

      The hand of the diligent will rule, but laziness ends in forced labor.

  • Through

    Proverbs 10:4

    Idle hands make one poor, but diligent hands bring wealth.

    it leads to

    • Proverbs 19:15

      Laziness brings on deep sleep, and an idle soul will suffer hunger.

    • Proverbs 20:4

      The slacker does not plow in season; at harvest time he looks, but nothing is there.

Where this verse is studied

About Genesis

The Tower of Babel, Pieter Brueghel the Elder, 1563. Public domain.
The Tower of Babel, Pieter Brueghel the Elder, 1563. Public domain.
Genesis: the study guide →Read Genesis 26 →

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Jerome, Hebrew Questions on Genesis; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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