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Genesis 30:24

in Genesis 30

She named him Joseph, and said, “May the LORD add to me another son.”

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

and she called his name Joseph, saying, Jehovah add to me another son.

KJV

And she called his name Joseph; and said, The Lord shall add to me another son.

This verse in Genesis 30

Commentary

3 notes on this verse

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

She called his name Joseph - יוסף Yoseph, adding, or he who adds; thereby prophetically declaring that God would add unto her another son, which was accomplished in the birth of Benjamin, Gen 35:18.

This site's exposition

She named him Joseph

Joseph carries the sense of he adds, and she asks for another son while naming this one. The request is granted at 35:17 and 18, and Rachel dies bearing Benjamin. Joseph is the eleventh son born, and 1 Chronicles 5:1 and 2 give him the birthright Reuben lost.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

And she called his name Joseph,....

The words behind it

10 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.

  • וַתִּקְרָ֧אand she called

    vatikra'H7121 →733 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • שְׁמ֛וֹname his

    shemoH8034 →864 times

  • יוֹסֵ֖ףJoseph

    yosefH3130 →213 times

  • לֵאמֹ֑ר<to> saying

    lemorH559 →5305 times

  • יֹסֵ֧ףmay he add

    yosefH3254 →212 times

  • יְהוָ֛הYahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • לִ֖יto <the> me

    li

  • בֵּ֥ןa son

    benH1121 →4930 times

  • אַחֵֽר׃another

    ʾacherH312 →166 times

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

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

    Genesis 37:2

    This is the account of Jacob. When Joseph was seventeen years old, he was tending the flock with his brothers, the sons of his father’s wives Bilhah and Zilpah, and he brought their father…

    it leads to

    • Genesis 35:25–26

      The sons of Rachel’s maidservant Bilhah were Dan and Naphtali.

    • Genesis 35:22

      While Israel was living in that region, Reuben went in and slept with his father’s concubine Bilhah, and Israel heard about it. Jacob had twelve sons:

    • 1 Samuel 2:22–24

      Now Eli was very old, and he heard about everything his sons were doing to all Israel and how they were sleeping with the women who served at the entrance to the Tent of…

    • 1 Corinthians 11:18

      First of all, I hear that when you come together as a church, there are divisions among you, and in part I believe it.

    • Genesis 30:9

      When Leah saw that she had stopped having children, she gave her servant Zilpah to Jacob as a wife.

  • Through

    Genesis 35:24

    The sons of Rachel were Joseph and Benjamin.

    it leads to

    • Genesis 30:22–24

      Then God remembered Rachel. He listened to her and opened her womb,

    • Genesis 46:19–22

      The sons of Jacob’s wife Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.

    • Genesis 35:16–18

      Later, they set out from Bethel, and while they were still some distance from Ephrath, Rachel began to give birth, and her labor was difficult.

Where this verse is studied

About Genesis

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.