Genesis 33:16
in Genesis 33So that day Esau started on his way back to Seir,
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ASV
So Esau returned that day on his way unto Seir.
KJV
So Esau returned that day on his way unto Seir.
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This verse in Genesis 33
Commentary
4 notes on this verseThis site's exposition
Let me leave some of my people with you
on Genesis 33:15-16
Esau offers an escort out of his own four hundred, and Jacob wants none of them. Wesley reads the refusal as the answer of a man who has a guard, the camps of angels he met at Genesis 32:1 and 2. Esau starts back to Seir that same day.
This site's exposition
Esau started on his way back to Seir
Seir sounds like the Hebrew for hairy, the word used of Esau at his birth in Genesis 25:25. Esau goes back that day to the land of Seir, south of the Dead Sea, which became Edom. Deuteronomy 2:5 records that God gave Mount Seir to Esau.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
The place was afterwards known by the name of Succoth, a city in the tribe of Gad, on the other side Jordan (it signifies booths ), that when his posterity afterwards dwelt in houses of stone, they might remember that the Syrian ready to perish was their father, who was glad of booths ( Deut. xxvi.
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So Esau returned that day on his way unto Seir. Took his leave of Jacob the same day he met him, and proceeded on in his journey towards Seir; whether he arrived there the same day is not certain, probably it was more than a day's journey.
The words behind it
6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וַיָּשָׁב֩ | vaiyashav | and he returned | H7725 → | 1056 times |
| בַּיּ֨וֹם | baiyom | on the day | H3117 → | 2304 times |
| הַה֥וּא | hahu' | <the> that | H1931 → | 1879 times |
| עֵשָׂ֛ו | ʾesav | Esau | H6215 → | 97 times |
| לְדַרְכּ֖וֹ | ledarko | to way his | H1870 → | 707 times |
| שֵׂעִֽירָה׃ | seirah | Seir towards | H8165 → | 39 times |
וַיָּשָׁב֩and he returned
vaiyashavH7725 →1056 times
בַּיּ֨וֹםon the day
baiyomH3117 →2304 times
הַה֥וּא<the> that
hahu'H1931 →1879 times
עֵשָׂ֛וEsau
ʾesavH6215 →97 times
לְדַרְכּ֖וֹto way his
ledarkoH1870 →707 times
שֵׂעִֽירָה׃Seir towards
seirahH8165 →39 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
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This page draws on John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament; Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.