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Genesis 31:25

in Genesis 31

Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the hill country of Gilead when Laban overtook him, and Laban and his relatives camped there as well.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And Laban came up with Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mountain: and Laban with his brethren encamped in the mountain of Gilead.

KJV

Then Laban overtook Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mount: and Laban with his brethren pitched in the mount of Gilead.

This verse in Genesis 31

Commentary

2 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

when Laban overtook him

on Genesis 31:25-28

Laban opens with the words Jacob used to him at 29:25, What have you done. He says he would have sent them with joy and singing, tambourines and harps. He calls his daughters captives of war, and his last charge is the kiss he wanted for his grandchildren and daughters.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Then Laban overtook Jacob,.... He was come to the mount the overnight, but now in the morning he came nearer to him, so as to hold a conversation with him: now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mount, and Laban with his brethren pitched in the mount of Gilead; both on the same mount; one perhaps at the bottom, and the other at the top; or one on one hill of it, and the other on another, or right over against one another.

The words behind it

15 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.

  • וַיַּשֵּׂ֥גand he overtook

    vaiyasegH5381 →50 times

  • לָבָ֖ןLaban

    lavanH3837 →55 times

  • אֶֽת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • יַעֲקֹ֑בJacob

    yaakoH3290 →350 times

  • וְיַעֲקֹ֗בand Jacob

    veyaakoH3290 →350 times

  • תָּקַ֤עhe had pitched

    taka'H8628 →

  • אֶֽת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • אָהֳלוֹ֙tent his

    ʾoholoH168 →345 times

  • בָּהָ֔רin the hill country

    baharH2022 →546 times

  • וְלָבָ֛ןand Laban

    velavanH3837 →55 times

  • תָּקַ֥עhe pitched tent

    taka'H8628 →

  • אֶת־with

    ʾet-H854 →929 times

  • אֶחָ֖יוrelatives his

    ʾechavH251 →630 times

  • בְּהַ֥רin [the] hill country of

    beharH2022 →546 times

  • הַגִּלְעָֽד׃<the> Gilead

    hagiladH1568 →134 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

    Hebrews 11:9

    By faith he dwelt in the promised land as a stranger in a foreign country. He lived in tents, as did Isaac and Jacob, who were heirs with him of the same promise.

    it leads to

    • Genesis 12:8

      From there Abram moved on to the hill country east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel to the west and Ai to the east. There he built an altar to the LORD,…

    • Genesis 13:18

      So Abram moved his tent and went to live near the Oaks of Mamre at Hebron, where he built an altar to the LORD.

    • Genesis 13:3

      From the Negev he journeyed from place to place toward Bethel, until he came to the place between Bethel and Ai where his tent had formerly been pitched,

    • Hebrews 6:17

      So when God wanted to make the unchanging nature of His purpose very clear to the heirs of the promise, He guaranteed it with an oath.

    • Acts 7:5–6

      He gave him no inheritance here, not even a foot of ground. But God promised to give possession of the land to Abraham and his descendants, even though he did not yet have a…

  • Through

    Genesis 33:18

    After Jacob had come from Paddan-aram, he arrived safely at the city of Shechem in the land of Canaan, and he camped just outside the city.

    it leads to

    • Joshua 24:1

      Then Joshua assembled all the tribes of Israel at Shechem. He summoned the elders, leaders, judges, and officers of Israel, and they presented themselves before God.

    • Judges 9:1

      Now Abimelech son of Jerubbaal went to his mother’s brothers at Shechem and said to them and to all the clan of his mother,

  • Through

    Genesis 12:8

    From there Abram moved on to the hill country east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel to the west and Ai to the east. There he built an altar to the LORD,…

    it leads to

    • Genesis 4:26

      And to Seth also a son was born, and he called him Enosh. At that time men began to call upon the name of the LORD.

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.

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