And afterwards she bare a daughter, and called her name Dinah.
And afterwards she bare a daughter, and called her name Dinah.
and afterwards hath she born a daughter, and calleth her name Dinah.
And afterwards she bore a daughter, and called her name Dinah.
Genesis — The book of beginnings. Creation, fall, flood, covenant, election, providence — eleven generational seams stitch one unbroken story from heaven-and-earth to a coffin in Egypt.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
Voices3
(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.
Jerome· Hebrew Questions on Genesis, 420patristic
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.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)reformed
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.
Adam Clarke· Commentary on the Bible, 1832evangelical
The walk8
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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.
leads to
And God listened to Leah, and she conceived and bore a fifth son to Jacob.
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.”
These were the sons of Israel:
Now Dinah, the daughter Leah had borne to Jacob, went out to visit the daughters of the land.
Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, excelling in honor, excelling in power.
Through
Genesis 34:26They killed Hamor and his son Shechem with their swords, took Dinah out of Shechem’s house, and went away.
leads to
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?”
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.”
“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…
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The verses this one reaches3
Now Dinah, the daughter Leah had borne to Jacob, went out to visit the daughters of the land.
They killed Hamor and his son Shechem with their swords, took Dinah out of Shechem’s house, and went away.
These 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.
