Genesis 35:8 BSB — MannaFest

Genesis 35:8

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

BSB

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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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Commentary

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Hebrew Questions on Genesis (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.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

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.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (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.

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.

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Original language & word study

14 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַתָּ֤מָת	va.Ta.mot	and she died	H4191 →
דְּבֹרָה֙	de.vo.Rah	Deborah	H1683 →
מֵינֶ֣קֶת	mei.Ne.ket	[the] suckling-nurse of	H3243 →
רִבְקָ֔ה	riv.Kah	Rebekah	H7259 →
וַתִּקָּבֵ֛ר	va.ti.ka.Ver	and she was buried	H6912 →
מִתַּ֥חַת	mi.Ta.chat	from under	H8478 →
לְבֵֽית־	le.veit-	to Beth-	H1008 →
אֵ֖ל	'el	-el	H1008 →
תַּ֣חַת	Ta.chat	under	H8478 →
הָֽאַלּ֑וֹן	ha.'a.Lon	the oak	H437 →
וַיִּקְרָ֥א	vai.yik.Ra'	and someone called	H7121 →
שְׁמ֖וֹ	she.Mo	name its	H8034 →
אַלּ֥וֹן	'a.Lon	Allon	H439 →
בָּכֽוּת׃ פ	ba.Khut	Bacuth	H439 →

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Where the connections lead

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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,…
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.
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.

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Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

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About Genesis