Study it in the app“It happened, before he had finished speaking, that, look, Rebekah was coming out, who was born to Bethuel son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham’s brother, with her jar on her shoulder.”
It happened,וַיְהִיbeforeטֶרֶםheהוּאhad finishedכִּלָּהspeaking,לְדַבֵּרthat, look,וְהִנֵּהRebekahרִבְקָהwas coming out,יֹצֵאתwhoאֲשֶׁרwas bornיֻלְּדָהto Bethuelלִבְתוּאֵלsonבֶּןof Milcah,מִלְכָּהthe wifeאֵשֶׁתof Nahor,נָחוֹרAbraham’sאַבְרָהָםbrother,אֲחִיwith her jarוְכַדָּהּonעַלher shoulder.שִׁכְמָהּ
happen
For something to occur or take place; many stories open with this word.
Where else “yehi” appearsnot yet, before
Not yet; before.
Where else “terem” appearsfinish
To bring a work or a matter through to its end.
Where else “kila” appearsspeak
To speak, say something; above all God to his people.
Where else “daber” appearsRebekah
Rebekah, daughter of Bethuel, wife of Isaac; mother of Esau and Jacob.
Where else “rivka” appearsgo out
To go out of a place.
Where else “yotset” appearsbe born
To come into the world, to begin to live.
Where else “yulda” appearsBethuel
Bethuel, son of Nahor and father of Rebekah and Laban; also a place.
Where else “vetuel” appearsson
The male born of a father and mother; in the plural, also sons and daughters.
Where else “ben” appearsMilcah
Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abram's brother; also a daughter of Zelophehad.
Where else “milka” appearswife
Literally "his woman": the one married to him.
Where else “eshet” appearsNahor
Nahor, the name of Abraham's grandfather and of one of his brothers; also the town where his brother's family lived.
Where else “nachor” appearsAbraham
Abraham, the name God gave to Abram; it sounds like "father of a multitude" (Genesis 17:5). The father of the people of Israel, to whom God promised the land and blessing for all the families of the earth.
Where else “avraham” appearsbrother
A son of the same father or the same mother.
Where else “achi” appearsjar
Jar: an earthen vessel for carrying water or keeping flour.
Where else “chada” appearsshoulder
The part of the body by the neck where a load is carried.
Where else “shichma” appears14Let it be that the girl to whom I say, ‘Please lower your jar so that I may drink,’ and she says, ‘Drink, and I will also water your camels,’ she is the one you have appointed for your servant Isaac. By this I will know that you have shown loyal love to my lord.”
15 · This verse (above)
16The girl was very beautiful in appearance, a virgin, and no man had known her. She went down to the spring, filled her jar, and came up.
1. What it says
What did Abraham’s servant ask of YHWH by the well, and what did Rebekah do (vv. 12-20)?
2. What it means
What does it show about the servant’s prayer that he asks YHWH for guidance in his task (vv. 12-14, 26-27)?
3. How I live it
In what pending decision can you ask Elohim for guidance and pay attention to what happens?
