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Genesis 35:8

in Genesis 35

Now Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died and was buried under the oak below Bethel. So Jacob named it Allon-bachuth.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And Deborah Rebekah’s nurse died, and she was buried below Beth-el under the oak: and the name of it was called Allon-bacuth.

KJV

But Deborah Rebekah’s nurse died, and she was buried beneath Beth–el under an oak: and the name of it was called Allon–bachuth.

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This verse in Genesis 35

Commentary

7 notes on this verse

A commentator

Jerome

Hebrew Questions on Genesis · Written before 420.

(Verse 8) And Deborah, the nurse of Rebekah, died and was buried near Bethel. If the nurse of Rebekah named Deborah is dead, as the Septuagint interpreters also translated here, and the Hebrew word is Meneketh: we cannot know why they put 'substantiam' there, 'nutricem' here.

This site's exposition

Deborah, Rebekah's nurse, died

Deborah is named here for the first time, on the day she dies, where Genesis 24:59 had sent Rebekah away with her nurse and given no name. The oak below Bethel is called Allon-bachuth, the oak of weeping. Rebekah's own death is never reported, and Genesis 49:31 is where a reader learns she was buried at Machpelah.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices

A commentator

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

Rebekah probably was dead, but her old nurse (of whom mention is made chap. xxiv, 59,) survived her, and Jacob took her to his family. While they were at Beth-el she died, and died lamented, so much lamented, that the oak under which she was buried, was called Allon-bachuth, the oak of weeping.
But Deborah, Rebekah's nurse, died,....

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

Old servants in a family, that have in their time been faithful and useful, ought to be respected. Honour was done to this nurse, at her death, by Jacob's family, though she was not related to them, and though she was aged.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

But Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died - She was sent with Rebekah when taken by Abraham’s servant to be wife to Isaac, Gen 24:59. How she came to be in Jacob’s family, expositors are greatly puzzled to find out; but the text does not state that she was in Jacob’s family.

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Deborah (Hebrew, a "bee"), supposing her to have been fifty years on coming to Canaan, had attained the great age of a hundred eighty. When she was removed from Isaac's household to Jacob's, is unknown. But it probably was on his return from Mesopotamia; and she would have been of invaluable service to his young family.

The words behind it

14 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.

  • וַתָּ֤מָתand she died

    vatamotH4191 →839 times

  • דְּבֹרָה֙Deborah

    devorahH1683 →

  • מֵינֶ֣קֶת[the] suckling-nurse of

    meineketH3243 →33 times

  • רִבְקָ֔הRebekah

    rivkahH7259 →30 times

  • וַתִּקָּבֵ֛רand she was buried

    vatikaverH6912 →133 times

  • מִתַּ֥חַתfrom under

    mitachatH8478 →505 times

  • לְבֵֽית־to Beth-

    leveit-H1008 →142 times

  • אֵ֖ל-el

    ʾelH1008 →142 times

  • תַּ֣חַתunder

    tachatH8478 →505 times

  • הָֽאַלּ֑וֹןthe oak

    haalonH437 →

  • וַיִּקְרָ֥אand someone called

    vaiyikra'H7121 →733 times

  • שְׁמ֖וֹname its

    shemoH8034 →864 times

  • אַלּ֥וֹןAllon

    ʾalonH439 →

  • בָּכֽוּת׃ פBacuth

    bakhutH439 →

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

Related verses

8 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

Genesis 24:59So they sent their sister Rebekah on her way, along with her nurse and Abraham’s servant and his men.7 worksJudges 2:5So they called that place Bochim and offered sacrifices there to the LORD.3 works1 Samuel 31:13Then they took their bones and buried them under the tamarisk tree in Jabesh, and they fasted seven days.2 works1 Chronicles 10:12all their men of valor set out and retrieved the bodies of Saul and his sons and brought them to Jabesh. And they buried their bones under the oak in Jabesh and fasted seven days.2 worksJudges 4:5And she would sit under the Palm of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in the hill country of Ephraim, where the Israelites would go up to her for judgment.2 worksJoshua 24:26Joshua recorded these things in the Book of the Law of God. Then he took a large stone and set it up there under the oak that was near the sanctuary of the LORD.2 works
The other 2 cross-references, with their words ▾
Luke 7:2There a highly valued servant of a centurion was sick and about to die.2 worksJudges 2:1Now the angel of the LORD went up from Gilgal to Bochim and said, “I brought you up out of Egypt and led you into the land that I had promised to your fathers, and I said, ‘I will never break My covenant with you,1 works

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

    Judges 2:1

    Now the angel of the LORD went up from Gilgal to Bochim and said, “I brought you up out of Egypt and led you into the land that I had promised to your fathers,…

    it leads to

    • Exodus 20:2

      “I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

    • Leviticus 26:42

      then I will remember My covenant with Jacob and My covenant with Isaac and My covenant with Abraham, and I will remember the land.

    • Exodus 23:20

      Behold, I am sending an angel before you to protect you along the way and to bring you to the place I have prepared.

    • Genesis 17:7–8

      I will establish My covenant as an everlasting covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you.

    • Psalms 105:44–45

      He gave them the lands of the nations, that they might inherit the fruit of others’ labor,

  • Through

    1 Samuel 31:13

    Then they took their bones and buried them under the tamarisk tree in Jabesh, and they fasted seven days.

    it leads to

    • Genesis 50:10

      When they reached the threshing floor of Atad, which is across the Jordan, they lamented and wailed loudly, and Joseph mourned for his father seven days.

    • 2 Samuel 21:12–14

      he went and took the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan from the men of Jabesh-gilead, who had stolen them from the public square of Beth-shan where the Philistines had hung the bodies…

    • 2 Samuel 1:12

      They mourned and wept and fasted until evening for Saul and his son Jonathan, and for the people of the LORD and the house of Israel, because they had fallen by the sword.

Where this verse is studied

About Genesis

The Creation of Light, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
The Creation of Light, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Genesis: the study guide →Read Genesis 35 →

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 (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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