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Genesis 38:19

in Genesis 38

Then Tamar got up and departed. And she removed her veil and put on her widow’s garments again.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And she arose, and went away, and put off her veil from her, and put on the garments of her widowhood.

KJV

And she arose, and went away, and laid by her vail from her, and put on the garments of her widowhood.

This verse in Genesis 38

Commentary

2 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

she removed her veil

on Genesis 38:19-20

Tamar removes the veil and puts her widow's garments back on, and the evidence stays in her keeping. Judah sends Hirah with the young goat to collect the pledge, and Hirah cannot find her. The seal, the cord and the staff are hers now.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

And she arose and went away,.... To her father's house immediately, as soon as ever she had parted with Judah; and lest she should be found by the person that would be sent with the kid, and be discovered, she made all the haste she could: and laid by her veil from her, and put on the garments of her widowhood; that it might not be known or suspected that she had been abroad.

The words behind it

8 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.

  • וַתָּ֣קָםand she arose

    vatakomH6965 →628 times

  • וַתֵּ֔לֶךְand she went

    vatelekhH1980 →1546 times

  • וַתָּ֥סַרand she removed

    vatasarH5493 →299 times

  • צְעִיפָ֖הּveil her

    tzeifahH6809 →3 times

  • מֵעָלֶ֑יהָfrom on <the> her

    mealeihaH5921 →5755 times

  • וַתִּלְבַּ֖שׁand she put on

    vatilbashH3847 →110 times

  • בִּגְדֵ֥י[the] clothes of

    bigdeiH899 →217 times

  • אַלְמְנוּתָֽהּ׃widowhood her

    ʾalmenutahH491 →

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

    2 Samuel 14:2

    So Joab sent to Tekoa to bring a wise woman from there. He told her, “Please pretend to be a mourner; put on clothes for mourning and do not anoint yourself with oil. Act…

    it leads to

    • 2 Chronicles 11:6

      He built up Bethlehem, Etam, Tekoa,

    • Ruth 3:3

      Therefore wash yourself, put on perfume, and wear your best clothes. Go down to the threshing floor, but do not let the man know you are there until he has finished eating and drinking.

    • Amos 1:1

      These are the words of Amos, who was among the sheepherders of Tekoa—what he saw concerning Israel two years before the earthquake, in the days when Uzziah was king of Judah and Jeroboam son…

    • 2 Samuel 12:20

      Then David got up from the ground, washed and anointed himself, changed his clothes, and went into the house of the LORD and worshiped. Then he went to his own house, and at his…

    • Nehemiah 3:5

      Next to him, the Tekoites made repairs, but their nobles did not put their shoulders to the work under their supervisors.

  • Through

    Genesis 38:14

    she removed her widow’s garments, covered her face with a veil to disguise herself, and sat at the entrance to Enaim, which is on the way to Timnah. For she saw that although Shelah…

    it leads to

    • Genesis 38:26

      Judah recognized the items and said, “She is more righteous than I, since I did not give her to my son Shelah.” And he did not have relations with her again.

    • Genesis 24:65

      and asked the servant, “Who is that man in the field coming to meet us?” “It is my master,” the servant answered. So she took her veil and covered herself.

    • Jeremiah 3:2

      “Lift up your eyes to the barren heights and see. Is there any place where you have not been violated? You sat beside the highways waiting for your lovers, like a nomad in the…

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