Study it in the app“And it happened in the morning, as the grain offering was offered, that, look, water was coming from the direction of Edom, and the land was filled with water.”
And it happenedוַיְהִיin the morning,בַבֹּקֶרas the grain offeringכַּ הַמִּנְחָהwas offered,עֲלוֹתthat, look,וְהִנֵּהwaterמַיִםwas comingבָּאִיםfrom the directionמִדֶּרֶךְof Edom,אֱדוֹםand the landוַ הָאָרֶץwas filledתִּמָּלֵאwith water.אֶת הַמָּיִם
happen
For something to occur or take place; many stories open with this word.
Where else “yehi” appearsmorning
Morning, dawn.
Where else “boker” appearsgrain offering
The grain offering.
Where else “mincha” appearsoffer up
To burn a sacrifice on the altar; literally "make go up".
Where else “alot” appearswater
Water: for drinking, of rivers or seas.
Where else “mayim” appearscome
To come, arrive: "days are coming".
Where else “baim” appearsdirection
Where one is going or facing; the heading of something.
Where else “derech” appearsEdom
See it on the mapWhere else “edom” appearsland
A region or nation, above all Israel's.
Where else “arets” appearsfill
To take up all the space of something, or to give someone all it can hold.
Where else “timale” appearsEdom
Today: southern Jordan and the southern Negev
A mountain region south of the Dead Sea, in what is now southwest Jordan.
The Edomites came from Esau, Jacob's brother (Gen 36:1). Edom would not let Israel pass through its land (Num 20:14-21).
19You will strike every fortified city and every choice city, and every good tree you will fell, and all the springs of water you will stop up, and every good plot of land you will ruin with stones.”
20 · This verse (above)
21All Moab heard that the kings had come up to fight against them, and they were called out, all from those who could gird on a belt and upward, and they stood at the border.
