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Jacobיַעֲקֹבwent outוַיֵּצֵאfrom Beershebaמִבְּאֵר שָׁבַעand wentוַיֵּלֶךְtoward Haran.חָרָנָה
Genesis 28:10
Study it in the app“Jacob went out from Beersheba and went toward Haran.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Genesis 28:10, word by word
- Jacobיַעֲקֹבyaakov
Jacob
Jacob, the younger son of Isaac and Rebekah, twin brother of Esau and father of the twelve tribes. In Hebrew "Yaakov" sounds like "heel" and "supplant" (Genesis 25:26; 27:36). God later gave him the name Israel; the name also stands for his descendants, the people of Israel.
Where else “yaakov” appears- went outיֵּצֵאyetse
go out
To go out of a place.
Where else “yetse” appears- from Beershebaבְּאֵרbeer
Beersheba
See it on the mapWhere else “beer” appears- and wentיֵּלֶךְyelech
go
To head for a place, to leave where one is in order to reach another.
Where else “yelech” appears- toward Haranחָרָנָcharana
Haran
See it on the mapWhere else “charana” appears
Places in this verse
1Beersheba
Today: Beersheba (Be'er Sheva), Israel
A city at the southern edge of the land of Israel, in the Negev desert, about 47 miles (75 km) south of Jerusalem.
Abraham and Isaac made agreements there over a well (Gen 21:31; 26:33). "From Dan to Beersheba" meant the whole land.
2Haran
Today: Harran, southern Turkey, near Syria
A city in northern Mesopotamia, in what is now southern Turkey near the Syrian border.
Abram stopped there with his family and left at seventy-five at God's command (Gen 12:4). Jacob fled there and worked for Laban (Gen 28:10; 29:4).
The context
9So Esau went to Ishmael and took Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael son of Abraham, the sister of Nebaioth, besides his wives, as his wife.
10 · This verse (above)
11He came upon the place and spent the night there, because the sun had set. He took one of the stones of the place and put it at his head, and lay down in that place.
To study Genesis 28 in a group
1. What it says
What did Jacob dream at Bethel, and what did YHWH say to him (vv. 12-15)?
2. What it means
What does it mean that Elohim tells Jacob, “I am with you and will keep you,” in his flight (v. 15)?
3. How I live it
In what difficult place in your life do you need to remember that Elohim is with you?