Genesis 30:21
in Genesis 30After that, Leah gave birth to a daughter and named her Dinah.
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ASV
And afterwards she bare a daughter, and called her name Dinah.
KJV
And afterwards she bare a daughter, and called her name Dinah.
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This verse in Genesis 30
Commentary
6 notes on this verse(Verse 21.) And after these things she gave birth to a daughter, and named her Dinah (). She is involved in a case, which the Greeks more significantly call δίκην. For there was a cause of contention in Shechem. After the sons, the names of the parents are to be given. Leah (), is interpreted as laboring. Rachel (), a sheep, whose son Joseph (), is called the addition because his mother had desired another to be added to her.
This site's exposition
bore a sixth son to Jacob
on Genesis 30:19-21
Zebulun carries the sense of dwelling, and Leah hopes her husband will honour her now that she has borne six sons. A single line then reports a daughter, Dinah, the only daughter this family names, with no speech from anyone. Chapter 34 turns on what is done to her at Shechem.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
And afterwards she bare a daughter,.... Which some writers, as Aben Ezra observes, say, was at the same birth with Zebulun, a twin with him; but being said to be afterwards shows the contrary: and called her name Dinah; which signifies "judgment": perhaps she may have some reference to the first son of Bilhah, Rachel's handmaid, whom she called Dan, a name of the same signification; intimating as if it was a clear case that judgment went on her side; and that by the number of children she had, it was plain God had determined in her favour.
) of the birth of a daughter, Dinah, because of the following story concerning her, ch. xxxiv . Perhaps Jacob had other daughters, though their names are not registered.
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The Nineteenth Century2 voices
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
afterwards, she bare a daughter--The inferior value set on a daughter is displayed in the bare announcement of the birth. JACOB'S COVENANT WITH LABAN.
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And called her name Dinah - דינה dinah, judgment. As Rachel had called her son by Bilhah Dan, Gen 30:6, so Leah calls her daughter Dinah, God having judged and determined for her, as well as for her sister in the preceding instance.
The words behind it
7 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וְאַחַ֖ר | veachar | and after | H310 → | 715 times |
| יָ֣לְדָה | yaldah | she bore | H3205 → | 496 times |
| בַּ֑ת | bat | a daughter | H1323 → | 588 times |
| וַתִּקְרָ֥א | vatikra' | and she called | H7121 → | 733 times |
| אֶת־ | ʾet- | <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| שְׁמָ֖הּ | shemah | name her | H8034 → | 864 times |
| דִּינָֽה׃ | dinah | Dinah | H1783 → | 8 times |
וְאַחַ֖רand after
veacharH310 →715 times
יָ֣לְדָהshe bore
yaldahH3205 →496 times
בַּ֑תa daughter
batH1323 →588 times
וַתִּקְרָ֥אand she called
vatikra'H7121 →733 times
אֶת־<obj.>
ʾet-H853 →10935 times
שְׁמָ֖הּname her
shemahH8034 →864 times
דִּינָֽה׃Dinah
dinahH1783 →8 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
Genesis 46:15These are the sons of Leah born to Jacob in Paddan-aram, in addition to his daughter Dinah. The total number of sons and daughters was thirty-three.
it leads to
- Genesis 30:17–21
And God listened to Leah, and she conceived and bore a fifth son to Jacob.
- Genesis 29:32–35
And Leah conceived and gave birth to a son, and she named him Reuben, for she said, “The LORD has seen my affliction. Surely my husband will love me now.”
- 1 Chronicles 2:1
These were the sons of Israel:
- Genesis 34:1–31
Now Dinah, the daughter Leah had borne to Jacob, went out to visit the daughters of the land.
- Genesis 49:3–15
Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, excelling in honor, excelling in power.
- Genesis 30:17–21
Through
Genesis 34:26They killed Hamor and his son Shechem with their swords, took Dinah out of Shechem’s house, and went away.
it leads to
- 2 Samuel 2:26
Then Abner called out to Joab: “Must the sword devour forever? Do you not realize that this will only end in bitterness? How long before you tell the troops to stop pursuing their brothers?”
- Deuteronomy 32:42
I will make My arrows drunk with blood, while My sword devours flesh—the blood of the slain and captives, the heads of the enemy leaders.”
- Isaiah 31:8
“Then Assyria will fall, but not by the sword of man; a sword will devour them, but not one made by mortals. They will flee before the sword, and their young men will be…
- 2 Samuel 2:26
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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.