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Isaacיִצְחָקwent awayוַיֵּלֶךְfrom thereמִשָּׁםand campedוַיִּחַןin the valleyבְּנַחַלof Gerarגְּרָרand livedוַיֵּשֶׁבthere.שָׁם
Genesis 26:17
Study it in the app“Isaac went away from there and camped in the valley of Gerar and lived there.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Genesis 26:17, word by word
- Isaacיִצְחָקyitschak
Isaac
Isaac, the son promised to Abraham and Sarah, father of Esau and Jacob. His name means "he laughs" (Genesis 17:17, 19; 21:6).
Where else “yitschak” appears- went awayיֵּלֶךְyelech
go
To head for a place, to leave where one is in order to reach another.
Where else “yelech” appears- and campedיִּחַןyichan
encamp
To pitch tents and stay, or besiege a city.
Where else “yichan” appears- in the valleyנַחַלnachal
valley
The hollow the water runs through.
Where else “nachal” appears- of Gerarגְּרָרgerar
Gerar
Gerar, a city in the south of Canaan, near the land of the Philistines.
Where else “gerar” appears- and livedיֵּשֶׁבyeshev
dwell
To make one's home in a place.
Where else “yeshev” appears
The context
16Abimelech said to Isaac, “Go away from us, for you have become much mightier than we.”
17 · This verse (above)
18Isaac again dug the wells of water that they had dug in the days of Abraham his father, which the Philistines had stopped up after the death of Abraham; and he called them by names like the names by which his father had called them.
To study Genesis 26 in a group
1. What it says
What did YHWH promise Isaac, and what happened with the wells he dug (vv. 2-5, 18-22)?
2. What it means
What did Isaac say when he named the well Rehoboth, the one they did not quarrel over, and what does that show about his attitude (vv. 20-22)?
3. How I live it
How can you respond with peace the next time someone disputes something that is yours?